Alan Sugar has gone from being a child selling cabbages to football chairman, to TV superstar to government advisor! All this, despite the fact he looks like a sweaty apple that's been rolled around in iron filings. Well, it's his latest gig, the government one, that's seen people calling for him to quit The Apprentice. That's right. The Conservatives want him to stop making the show because we won't be politically neutral if he's working for The Man as enterprise tsar. The shadow culture secretary Jeremy Hunt (rhyming slang?) sent a letter to the BBC Trust chairman Sir Michael Lyons, saying Sugar's roles were "totally incompatible". So, do you think he should leave?

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Now, Suralan told the Andrew Marr Show that the position was "politically neutral", although he is expected to take a seat in the House of Lords before adding; "It's very simple - all I am is an adviser, I'm not a policy-maker. I wouldn't join the government. I don't see this as a political thing ... as far as I'm concerned I've just got a passion to help out young people, to help out businesses and act as a kind of giant Dragon's Den if you like - although not with my money."

Does this breach BBC's impartiality? Hunt thinks so, saying: "Sir Alan Sugar needs to make a choice between his role in The Apprentice and his role as the government's business tsar. I have written to Sir Michael Lyons and asked him as a matter of urgency to explain who at the BBC gave guidance to Sir Alan and whether he had informed them that he would be a Labour peer."

Surely this is a moot point. Is anyone ever completely impartial, regardless of whether the government give them a job or not? Everyone has their own political standpoint at the BBC, which will colour their judgement one way or another. The BBC aren't going to change the name of The Apprentice to The Tories Are A Bunch Of Sissies are they? I don't quite see how the two things clash. I don't really know what the gripe is.

Do you? Do you think Sugar's Beeb job needs to give way? The comments are working again, so please, give your views. I'd love to hear 'em.