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Date: 05 June 2008 13:34:53
FW and myself are great of The Apprentice (UK) - to differentiate it from its other forms. Next Wednesday is the final and instead of 2 competitors we have 4. I must say that this year's batch of contestants has been very poor. There have been no real stand out candidtaes amongst this batch at all. Maybe that's why there are 4 finalists.
What has stood out is that there are some very devious and untrustworthy people left. No, I don't mean Lee has his padded CV. There are two very untrustworthy candidates here.
As you watch the boardroom and "tasks", you can see that Alex and Claire are 2 very poisonous people to be around. Helene was not very pleasant to Lucinda but she has been far more honest with the orthers - or maybe it's edited that way. However Alex and Claire are very, very dangerous to know and cross.
You can see that they have a good side and a bad side - as do we all. Yet their bad sides are very thinly veiled. You watch their eyes and body language and you can see that their knives are firmly in hand and ready to strike.
I'm hoping that someone finally sees through them and deposits them where they belong - the local landfill.
History Today :
1916 : A British-backed Arab revolt against the Ottoman Empire is proclaimed with an attach on Medina. Without this we'd never have had David Lean's great film Lawrence of Arabia.
1947 : US statesman George Marshall proposes the "Marshall Plan". This was not a idea to put a marshall on the street of every Western town but the aid programe for European post war reconstruction. Without this Europe wouldn't be what it is today.
1967 : The Israeli military launch a pre-emptive strike against their Arab neighbours, thus starting the 6 Day War. See you don't even get much War for your money any more... Let's bring back the good old days with a 7 or 100 year war.