November 16, 2014 — The Billingsgate fish market in east London is a world of its own and the king of this domain, according to World’s Greatest Food Markets (Sun BBC2), is Roger Barton.
With his grey beard and straw boater hat, Roger looked like Alan Sugar’s homeless half-brother, but his 50-plus years of graft have earned him the nickname “The Bastard of Billingsgate”. Now he’s ready to be a small fish in a bigger pond, but “can the Bastard of Billingsgate make a few quid in another man’s market?”
Barton’s resemblance to Lord Sugar wasn’t the only way we were reminded of The Apprentice. Both shows are also wistful odes to the glory days of capitalism, when a man could earn an honest crust by screwing other people out of their life savings.
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