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I witnessed Leon practising his very aggressive business skills in Malaga airport to a lady he thought had jumped a disorganised Easyjet queue! Very embarrassing for all whether or not he was right!

Zoe is a bully. I dont see Susan lasting long but she is being bullied by Zoe. Even on the 2nd task, and during the task, she categorically have placed Susan as the responsible person for the failure. Zoe definitely the one that got away. When the 3 came in, Susan said "I closed the deal" in which Zoe retaliated that it wasnt Susan, it was Edna. Seriously neither the viewers nor the panel of judges are dumb. Of course we all knew Edna did the call and got the job, but it was Susan's negotiaiton skills that cost that the team to lose by £6, not by a bigger margin. when on the first pitch Susan told Zoe she should have not charged them, she jumped at her asking if she was sabotaging her? Zoe sabotaged the team infact. Susan's weakness in this show is that she is not loud enough and she cant overpower someone's retaliation or voice. that will cost her, her space.

Didn't realise stuart was such a good writer, I could see him writing in the tabloids, leaking info on various miscreants.

Susan is not childish. I supported you last year, but some people would argue that you were more childish bringing up your yoyos every week.

She was the most intelligent person in that team. If she complains, it's with good reason. She was being led by somebody who didn't even know what she was doing. Zoe showed that her judgment is poor by bringing Susan into the boardroom.

Zoe should be fired next week, Susan to win.

Zoe is just a bully, if she wins it will show what sort of person Lord Sugar really likes

I absolutely agree with the posts declaring Zoe a bully. She, for all her instability, aggression and hypocrisy, was saved by Lord Sugar, much to the detriment of Edna whose obligation to answer to a statement in her application that didn't relate at all to the task in which she outperformed Zoe I deemed unfair. Like with Vincent, Lord Sugar tried to find a reason, however negligible, to relieve himself of a candidate he considered weak. He succeeded insofar as Edna was unable to corroborate her pretensions with any evidence from an unusual task. However, she could have been forgiven for not anticipating such an interrogation from Lord Sugar. Lord Sugar claims that he judges according to the task, but his indifference towards Edna was implicit when he dismissed her in spite of her contributing considerably more than Zoe, demonstrating a greater capacity for improvisation and emerging as a more versatile candidate- she vainly alluded to this in her reactive self-defence in the boardroom.
Zoe was lucky to escape this time, while Susan was unlucky to be brought in by her to face Lord Sugar. Zoe has little affection for Susan to say the least and for some reason each resolution of their many disputes came after an embarrassed concession from Susan and, thus, a little triumph for Zoe even though the former understood the task better than her PM. In a way that was good because it perpetuated Zoe's delusion that she was a competent leader; the chastening realisation, albeit met with sympathy by Lord Sugar, came in the boardroom in the company of Susan, Zoe's treatment of whom was not vindicated in the slightest. Perhaps Susan's powers of retaliation have to be strengthened, but it's not her fault she's young and the victim of an inexplicably popular autocrat. Zoe's peremptory heart, in which Lord Sugar perhaps sees a reflection of himself, produced more invective on the ride back to the house and a reconciliation between the two does not appear to be forthcoming.

That they cannot co-exist peacefully is perhaps an opportunity, and an invitation, for Team Logic to assert their authority on the process. Happily for me, Tom won his first task and Jim avoided Lord Sugar again. That must have enraged SAS! I like this team and, although I was disappointed to see Vincent go last week, must acknowledge the benefits provided by Helen's substitution to even the numbers. Ostensibly hapless prior to her arrival--which is hopefully a precondition, a catalyst for further success--the team never regretted entrusting management to her. I have waited for their self-evident skills to%

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manifest themselves, those belonging to Jim, Tom, Melody and Natasha; and now, having too long been overshadowed by weaker contestants, a positive impression of them was conveyed to Lord Sugar- this time expressed by their collective action rather than through Jim's evasive, if well-articulated, words.

Zoe really needs her marching orders. She is just a bully with a painfully monotone voice, which matches her dreary face.
No one is really shining out this year, although Tom seems to make a lot of sense in what he says, but he really needs to be more forceful in pushing his ideas through, instead of just playing devils advocate.
The real problem is, lord sugar doesn't seem to like the well articulated educated folk, he seems to like the straight talking/pig ignorant ones, that lack the real brains but make up for it in brashness!!!!
The candidates just need to remember that this is the only real interview where the less educated you are, the more likely you are to get the job........