East London campaign against Big Business Crossrail say a few words of solidarity with the people of Stornoway in Scotland: Stay firm, Say No..!

By©Muhammad Haque
2100 Hrs GMT
London
9 June 2008

East London campaign against Big Business Crossrail say a few words of solidarity with the people of Stornoway in Scotland: Stay firm, Say No..!

TRUMP CRASS! Just like the Big Business Crossrail hole plot peddlers in London, ‘American tycoon’ [!!!!] Donald Trump has been telling lies...He wants to ruin the space in a part of Scotland that he says is asking for his assault on the environment....

He intimates, via the BBC, that if the people in Stornoway won’t let him do damage to their environment, then he will go and do it somewhere else!!!.

The Gall of the looters and the violators of the resources of nature....!!!!



AADHIKARonline Quoting the following from the Timesonline web site:

From Times Online
June 9, 2008
Donald Trump visits his Scottish roots in charm offensive for £1bn golf resort
The US tycoon arrived on the Isle of Lewis by private jet for a not-so-private visit to the modest croft where his late mother was raised

(Andrew Milligan/PA)
Trump in Scotland - the developer spent 90 seconds inside his mother’s former home on the island of Lewis
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David Lister, Scotland Correspondent
Like millions of Americans before him, Donald John Trump today travelled across the Atlantic to see first hand his Scottish roots.

But this was a trip with a difference. As Mr Trump posed for photographs with his Scottish cousins outside the house where his mother was born, the tailfin of his private jet - emblazoned with a giant red "T" - was just visible on the runway of the airport across the bay.

Tomorrow, the 61-year-old billionaire famous for his New York skyscrapers and as the face of the NBC reality television show The Apprentice will testify at a public inquiry in Aberdeen called to hear evidence about a £1 billion golf resort he wants to build on a stretch of sand dunes just north of the city.

The development was referred to a public inquiry by the Scottish Executive after local councillors rejected it last year.

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Today, however, his brightly coloured Boeing 727, with the word "TRUMP" in gold letters along the side, was on the runway at Stornoway airport on the opposite side of Scotland, dwarfing anything else departing or arriving.

Dressed in a smart blue suit, white shirt and blue striped tie, the man known as "the Donald" gave his regulation V-sign as he walked down the aircraft steps and into the waiting Porsche Cayenne (registration number: 70 MAC).

Not for him the wait to pass through passport control and Customs, followed by a quick visit to the Goireasan - toilets - and then a bacon, sausage and black pudding roll at the airport cafe.

His aides bundled several boxes of his books - Trump: How to Get Rich and Trump: Never Give Up - into the boot. No trip, no matter how fleeting, it seems, is too short for a spot of self-promotion.

Ever since unveiling his plans to build "the world's greatest golf course" three years ago, Mr Trump has spoken repeatedly of his love for Scotland inherited from his late mother, Mary Ann MacLeod, a native Gaelic speaker who met Mr Trump's father after emigrating to the US as a young woman.

Today, in what his critics dismissed as a thinly veiled publicity stunt, he spent little more than 90 seconds inside 5 Tong, the house where she grew up four miles from Stornoway on the Isle of Lewis.

As his convoy of gas-guzzling 4x4s - including two BMW X5s and a black Porsche Cayenne, the only one on the island - pulled to a halt outside the modest croft house of Alastair and William Murray, the neighbours across the road looked distinctly unimpressed.

"He's only a human being, we never saw the likes of this in our lives," said one, shaking his head. "He's had a lifetime to come here so why is he doing it now? It's just a PR stunt."

"Morning, everybody. Windy, huh?" he said as the first spots of rain began to fall and the world's most famous combover haircut came close to showing precisely why the Outer Hebrides is known as the wind power capital of Europe.

Addressing the press in a cafe back in Stornoway, where locals gave him rousing applause, Mr Trump said that the trip had been emotional. Despite his professed love of all things Scottish, he has not been back to Lewis since he visited as a toddler with his mother - a trip he says has no recollection of.

Flanked by his sister, Maryanne Trump Barry, 71, a federal appeals court judge, he said: "I was here many, many years ago with my mother as a young child and I haven't been back since because I've been so busy working, having some fun in New York, let's put it that way. We're building all over the world and now we are back here, we are just happy to be back here."

Asked whether there was any truth to claims that his trip was a cynical PR exercise, he replied: "Zero. We were flying in, and I said this was the right time to come. We were actually going to do it the other way round [after the visit to Aberdeen]."

His sister, who has been to Lewis more than two dozen times, wowed local reporters by speaking a few words of Gaelic before giving a ringing endorsement of her brother that sounded like a courtroom character reference.

"I just want to say, my mother would be so proud to see Donald here today," she said. "She would be so proud to see what he's done, all the good he's done, the television star that he is." She added: "He's never forgotten where he came from and he came from here."

HAVE YOUR SAY
Great hair; now if only i had a billion.
jonners, weybridge,
Ripping off Scottish taxpayers, destroying Scottish countryside, to provide eastern europeans with low paying, insecure jobs, and the super rich with a new playground. Nice tribute to mom! Please go away Donald and bother your dad's birthplace!
Miss Dee, Tayside, Scotland
Sounds like that film, Local Hero.
Chris, Liverpool, England