General Election 2015: 'Ed Miliband doesn’t know what businesses do', says former Apprentice star fired over a fake skeleton
Video: 'I have problems with Ed Miliband,' said Felipe Alviar-Baquero
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Your support makes all the difference.“I have to change the channel every time Ed Miliband comes on TV,” says the latest businessman to attack Labour’s business policies.
But Mr Miliband will not be quaking in his boots because the quote comes from Felipe Alviar-Baquero, one of the stars on last year’s Apprentice who was fired by Sir Alan Sugar for buying a fake, paper skeleton rather than a real one in a bid to cut costs during one of the show’s tasks.
He attended David Cameron’s launch of the Conservative party’s small business manifesto and told The Independent he is a big fan of the Prime Minister, but not his opposite number.
“I have problems with Ed Miliband,” he said. “I don’t think they recognise what businesses are doing and it’s very difficult to believe in Labour’s economic plan.
“Everything they say all the time is about how they are going to use the mansion tax to pay for everything and I just want honesty and say ‘this is what we’re going to do’ and I just don’t think they have that honesty.”
This is all coming from a man who tried to cut costs – and some say cheated – by convincing Sir Alan Sugar that a card-board cut-out skeleton was the same as an anatomical skeleton, and triggered #SkeletonGate to trend on Twitter.
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