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Alan Sugar doesn’t like Northerners

As the ostensibly best candidate gets fired from The Apprentice this week, anyone with a keen eye will have noticed that Philip Taylor was a crackingly proud Northerner.

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Get aaaaaaught!

There have been a few of those over the course of the UK series of The Apprentice, and yet strangely they never seem to get very far no matter how well they do. Sugar always seems to find a reason to criticise their good work and takes every opportunity to heap scorn on any failings.

The only conclusion I can come up with is that Sugar, the ‘allo laaandan geeeza, just doesn’t like Northerners. There are plenty of people like that about, with the old North/South rivalry making people biased, and I’m surprised nobody has really called him up on it. He is, after all, just a man, just as flawed and fallible as anyone else.

A shame really, now that the most viable candidate has been fired the rest of the season is a bit academic. None of the rest have enough personality between them to be a worthy win, and we’ll probably end up with an apprentice who is a superficial and pasty as Simon Ambrose was – a man whose profile since winning The Apprentice last year has been distinctly underwhelming. He wasn’t a winner from the start, he was just what was left over when Sugar make bungle after bungle, firing all of the decent people one by one.

Like the man uttered as he walked out, it’s a joke.