This is surely a desparate move.  If you’re reading this from outside the UK, you may be unaware that the cabinet is in utter meltdown after a series of cabinet resignations  (*read rats/sinking/ship).  So whatcha gonna do Gordon Brown?  Call a celebrity in to sort things out, you know, like in the TV Show?  Can you do that Suralan?  Can you just go and sit opposite naughty ministers and rebellious MPs and shout “Your Fired”?  That’d be a real help.  Read more after the jump.

It’s rumoured that Suralan Sugar, hotshot entrepreneur and shouty man is to be brought into the cabinet, for which, if it materialises, he’d get a Lord’s seat and a peerage.  Does that mean we’d have to call him Sir Sir Alan?

He was spotted slipping in and out of No. 10 yesterday.

Sugar is a member of the premier’s Business Council for Britain, which advises Mr Brown on issues affecting enterprise and the economy.  Asked about Sir Alan’s visit, a Downing Street spokesman said: “He’s a member of the Business Council and the Prime Minister has meetings with businessmen on a regular basis.”

Yea, it just so happens that the final of one of the most popular TV shows in the UK is conveniently coinciding with a political clusterfuck for Brown.  This has to be one of the lowest stunts I’ve heard about for at least a few hours.  Jeez.