Sorting the wheat from the chaff is in very good hands and Sir Alan
gets it right every week!
Last night's task - country market I thought was a tough one but Ben
had to go!
He seemed completely out of sorts and depth.

BUT!!!

How lucky are Saira and Raj?? They have to be the most infuriating of
the dubious suspects.
In this task it was James who came up with the winning idea of
chutneys without which they (First Forte - what a cr*p name!!) would
have been singing in the rain.
To be fair to Saira, she did turn around her initial mistake of
agreeing to pay the chef £50.00/hr and worked damned hard to win the
task.
But Raj is the biggest waste of space in the programme. Largely
anonymous in every task, cosying up to and being domineered by Saira
at every opportunity and seemingly cannot string more than three
words together without tripping over his tongue. Obviously a
favourite for the 6-figure salary on offer then...
Comes across as a typical Indian mummy's boy! And believe me I have
met many.
Why is it both Saira and he always seem to have the usual Asian chip
on their shoulder....?
The "everybody's trying to pull me down" mentality.
Frankly they disgust me.
From Saira's excruciating enunciation of her words as though no-one
else can speak or understand English to her unwavering need to
talk/shout everyone down. As though by talking over people she'll
come across as knowing what she's doing and somehow absorb what she
lacks by osmosis. How patronising would it be as a professional if
someone was trying to buy/enlist your help and they spoke to you as
though you were 5 years old?
And when they both used the race card in explanation of their failure
with the art gallery task I was outraged.... This was their
fallback??? Unbelievable!!! Could it be.... and I'm clutching at
straws here.... that they were just out of their depth? That the
Impact team were actually better than they were, actually had an
appreciation of art and a familiarity/previous experience. They
engaged the husband & wife artists extremely well and showed passion
and interest in their work? If you go to view and understand art,
having a clipboard full of questions to ask (as Saira did) is
unlikely to engage... But hey, just call me picky.
The sooner these two go the better.
There are certainly many more capable, savvy, gifted young Asian
business talent out there for these two to be the pathetic
representatives they so obviously are.
In fact why are they in there at all? Surely the selection criteria
for candidates should have been on ability alone, not tokenism! So if
these are the pick of the crop then heaven help us.
So I'm incensed at these two. What can I say? They to my mind are
without a shred of integrity. And while the others (with the
exception of Paul) haven't overtly demonstrated it either, neither
have they tried to sully any of the others. In the De-brief sessions
have either Raj or Saira ever said a single positive thing about the
other team or individuals?
Protect yourself from being fired yes, but acknowledge
achievements/abilities in others too. That is what is known as
character or breeding, a quality sadly lacking in these two.

So rant over, who's my money on?

Paul or Miriam.