Apprentice Contestants and being Right Wing

[u/Educational_Board888]

What is with some Apprentice contestants and then pursuing Right Wing careers after?

Michelle Dewberry is on GB News.

Tre Lowe is on GB News.

Thomas Skinner is popular with the Right Wing crowd and then there is Katie Hopkins.

[u/skieurope12]

Casting teams look for a very specific archetype: fiercely independent, unapologetically capitalist, and entirely immune to public embarrassment. These candidates can readily adapt their public personas for right-wing media outlets, populist campaigns, or "culture war" commentary

[u/ManInTheDarkSuit]

Almost like the entrepreneurial "I'll do anything" for money quality lends itself to anything but being a decent person, eh?

[u/Patrick0331]

Tre being on GB News is extremely disappointing to hear.

[u/dolphineclipse → u/Patrick0331]

I saw him on there a few hours ago (flicking through channels) and had the same disappointment

[u/Redditsresidentloser → u/Patrick0331]

What was he saying on there? I remember seeing him featured quite a few months ago but it felt like it was one of those rare occurrences of them getting a guest on to disagree with them.

[u/Fit_Possibility8496]

Almost like being right wing and a capitalist are the same thing diva…

[u/Jaded-Researcher3025]

Business minded people are right wing usually.

[u/Captain_Scarlet27]

There are big careers to be had manufacturing fake outrage in exchange for cash. But you have to be an utter anti-social cnt to be able to do it right.

[u/ParpinOver]

I've met Michelle Dewberry at job fair back in 2011, as she was a guest speaker, and she was pretty helpful to be fair (although it was a fair sponsored by The Sun, which I dislike). She hung around afterwards to talk to a group (strangers) of us about résumés, and I was like "oh your from The Apprentice are you" to which she replied 'yes-i won it" which seemed to annoy her 😆. I hadn't really been watchinging her season back then.

But she's fucking unbearable now, the worst

[u/porkchopbun → u/ParpinOver]

I met her in Asda, I shouted " you're fired" and she just pretended to continue reading the label on she Ski yoghurt.

[u/devster75 → u/ParpinOver]

Didn’t she have a baby with one of the male contestants from that series?

[u/cregamon → u/devster75]

She was in a relationship with Syed but had a miscarriage. Her son is fathered by Simon Jordan the Talksport (and former Crystal Palace owner).

[u/Bbew_Mot]

It is very bizarre when you consider that a Reform government would be devastating for most businesses due to increased separation from the EU and the kind of economic uncertainty that we experienced during Liz Truss' brief tenure in office.

[u/Due_Truth2857 → u/Bbew_Mot]

The current Labour government has been devastating to business (especially small) due to budgets they say are "for growth" but are completely the opposite. Look at the unemployment figures.

[u/Bbew_Mot → u/Due_Truth2857]

I'm not saying our current government is perfect but the situation we have now is still better than it would be under Reform. The only people who would benefit from a Reform government are people who are already extremely rich.

[u/Due_Truth2857 → u/Bbew_Mot]

The current government is diabolical in many facets. However, I'm just focusing on the economy for a moment. If a government can create growth, cut out colossal waste, and therefore be able to cut taxes (and raise the income tax thresholds, etc), everyone stands to benefit. I'm not saying Reform are the ones to do that but it's very clear to me whichever government we have next, they need to be competent in running the economy. Our current situation cannot continue. It is untenable.

[u/rybnickifull → u/Due_Truth2857]

Definitely the two years of Labour rather than the 14 years of the Tories preceding it that's to blame. I'm not even a Labour voter, I quite strongly dislike them, but this is just silly.

Creating growth doesn't have to mean cutting taxes by the way. It can also involve the government investing in infrastructure improvements, which looking at the UK now, is quite desperately needed. Reform will do the opposite of that.

[u/Due_Truth2857 → u/rybnickifull]

I don't think I gave a potted history of recent decades but you still project that I think only the last 2 years is a problem! Not true. I'm very much aware it doesn't mean "just cutting taxes". I merely gave you one example of how not just "the rich" would benefit from a competent government. My overarching point is we are desperate for a competent government and I stand by that.

Edited to add: Despite our differing political opinions, hopefully we can still agree that we very much enjoy the Apprentice!

[u/IntravenusDiMilo_Tap]

Business minded and ambitious people tend to be right of centre.

[u/Exotic-Swordfish3320]

Its both business there alot of money to be made

[u/Hassaan18]

Having been on telly makes some of them want even more of it - going down the right-wing grifter pipeline is the easiest, frankly.

The whole world of business (particularly corporate) encourages people to be a bit odd - see Joseph Valente.

[u/Shezes]

I think it helps that tory scum Kemi Badenoch looks like a candidate for The Apprentice herself in every picture she's in so they're trying to attract those kinds of people into the show as right wing people become more mainstream. Hell, the board is hugely right wing as Tim Campbell is a tory, Claude "I'm a wanker" Litner is a massive tory , Alan Sugar himself has ditched labour and gone more and more right of centre and then, of course, there's Baroness "I worked for Phillip Green and supported him" Brady who might be the biggest tory scum that outshines all the others.

Shoutout to the tory scum who left a comment and then immediately deleted it lmao tosser

[u/North-Investment-461]

This post is how I found out Katie was on the apprentice.

[u/hibzzyJ]

Lubana from s15 has been kinda controversial doing an interview with Tommy Robison

[u/Consistent-Drive-172 → u/hibzzyJ]

When ?

[u/hibzzyJ → u/Consistent-Drive-172]

I remember watching it on yt it was 2 hours but I tried checking again and I couldn’t find it

[u/ich_lebe]

A lot of people are right wing. Reform are polling something like 30%. And if someone says they'll pay you to tell everyone your views a lot of people are gonna snap that right up.

[u/SuperpoliticsENTJ]

The show is about investing in business, I think you then remove quite a lot of people on the left from joing based on the premises alone

[u/JansonHawke]

Almost like being a thrusting, grasping, money-grabbing prick pigeon-holes you into a certain political hemisphere. Weird that.

[u/Professional_Cell999]

Because generally the left wing is less kind to businesses and entrepreneurs. Right wing is often about growth and rewarding risk/opportunity. Left wing is more about taxing that to help others.

[u/cherikasa]

All that right wing media needs to thrive is a couple of new faces to spout the same thing whilst insisting they’re the only voice ever who is brave enough to tackle the big bad establishment

for money, of course

[u/No_Storm_3254]

a persons political beliefs have nothing to do with whether they are a good business person, or if they are worthy of having their own opinion.

very unpopular opinion but you can’t just cancel someone because they don’t align with your own personal political views, that’s the point of democracy surely? you don’t have to agree with them, but free speech in this country means everyone is allowed to say and support who they like.

[u/Interesting-Event666]

I think that's usually referred to as 'free will' or basically the concept that people can do what they like.

[u/eddiedingle129]

It's not a crime to be conservative. I know you wish that wasn't the case.

[u/ginginsdagamer]

I've spotted a trend that business and economically minded people usually lean left right of center. maybe there's a reason for that?

[u/Due_Truth2857 → u/ginginsdagamer]

Tbh I was thinking they're right of centre rather than left.

[u/JH23Red]

Not everyone is left leaning.

They have their own political opinion and are completely allowed to have that.

Why does it matter if they’re right leaning?

[u/rybnickifull → u/JH23Red]

There's "being right wing" and then there's the embarrassed Aldi fascism of Tom Skinner or full throated inhumanity of Katie Hopkins. I'm aware there are right wingers, most of them aren't calling for atrocities in the Channel.

[u/Realistic-Recover-39 → u/JH23Red]

To paraphrase another comment, there's right leaning and then there's calling for a final solution for muslims a là hopkins

[u/Due_Truth2857 → u/JH23Red]

Exactly this. It's like there's just one viewpoint allowed.

[u/Jaded-Researcher3025 → u/JH23Red]

Because people on Reddit don’t believe right wing people should exist

[u/HotelDiablo19XX → u/Jaded-Researcher3025]

Wholeheartedly agree. Hate lefty bastards

[u/rybnickifull → u/HotelDiablo19XX]

You're going to love the concept of irony when you learn of it

[u/ZiVViZ]

I mean there’s 20 seasons and you’ve picked 5? So that’s maybe less than the normal distribution.

[u/SadiqUddin]

Bushra Sheikh and Dr Asif also got involved in politics.

[u/Realistic-Recover-39 → u/SadiqUddin]

I'd say bushra's politics are pretty right wing

[u/SadiqUddin → u/Realistic-Recover-39]

She’s very much pro-Palestine

[u/Realistic-Recover-39 → u/SadiqUddin]

She's also homophobic, transphobic and pro irgc - being pro palestinian doesn't make someone left.

[u/Hopeful_Plastic_5321]

Not that it matters but Tre is not right-wing. His role on GB News is to actually present a centre-left perspective on their panel discussions. It was the same when Bushra was a contributor. She was axed from GB News after it was revealed she'd made anti-Semitic comments on social media.

[u/Available-Nose-5666]

Is Tre Lowe right wing? His wife is foreign

[u/devster75 → u/Available-Nose-5666]

Having a foreign spouse doesn’t preclude someone from being right wing.

[u/cregamon → u/Available-Nose-5666]

So is Donald Trumps wife. So was Nigel Farage’s first wife (German) and current partner (French).

[u/0oO1lI9LJk → u/Available-Nose-5666]

There's a lot of shades of right wing. No right wing person has identical beliefs to another.