I am a big fan of The Apprentice, it is a great programme that allows us to laugh and despair at those people who consider themselves high flyers in the world of business - but who, for the most part, actually need a bit of help tying their own shoelaces.
It's often a triumph of self belief and business jargon over any sort of ability or sense of business judgement, and it seems that this series is no different.
And thank goodness for that.
If you missed it then you can visit the website here and watch the highlights - the boardroom argument between Raef, Alex and Nicholas is in particular a wonder to behold.
One episode in and already we are talking about "class". Every series we have a situation where those who went to private school and have a priviliged upbringing snootily look down on those hardworking commoners who they do not see as being born to lead like them. It is quite an achievement that one week into this series a massive split has already been engineered and a row has ensued.
Nicholas de Lacy-Brown sneered at the hardworking Alex for being a "salesman", as if that was some sort of insult when their task most weeks is to be able to sell a product. "You are a salesman", said de Lacy-Brown, before Alex ticked him off saying he was a "Area Manager".
"OK, you're a manager of salespeople", de Lacy-Brown smirked, feeling he had really rammed home his point - forgetting perhaps for a moment that Sir Alan Sugar had worked his way up to multi-million pound entrepreneur from being a working class salesman.
Nicholas blamed the split on the group between the "educated" and "uneducated" people. Or rather those who were brought up to talk properly, and those who weren't. It was rather amusing that the person he directed his attack at for being uneducated was someone called Alexander Wotherspoon, a university graduate with a broad Yorkshire accent, who defended himself to the hilt saying "I went to private school, what do you mean uneducated".
And that is the joy of The Apprentice, even the "heroes" are idiot villains. And the "villains" are super-idiot villains.
Take Raef Bjayou, the man of the incredible fop quiff and self styled "entrepreneur", who said of the class debate (after whipping up the debate in the first place):
"I'm just finding this conversation just incredibly boring... I get on with Prince or pauper."
No prizes for guessing who he thought was the prince and who was the pauper in the class debate, and whilst Nicholas may like to talk about class, I have to wonder how much true class he possesses after attacking last year's super-idiot villain-in-chief Katie Hopkins, by saying:
"Err, has she looked in the mirror? I think she should look in the mirror, although if she does, she should be aware that it might crack, which might give her seven years' worse luck than she has had already."
Admittedly, she had said of him that he had the "most punchable face in the UK", but by this point I was already rather struck by how much Nicholas resembled Tory leader David Cameron.
The vacant, privately educated poseur who had absolutely nothing worthwhile to say whatsoever. Can you still not see the resemblance?
Although, of course, David Cameron would never have been voted off the show first - I am sure he at the very least knows the price of a lobster.
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