http://local.stv.tv/aberdeen/news/225234-trump-opponent-david-milne-takes-golf-resort-inquiry-demand-to-holyrood/Donald Trump is facing opposition, something he somewhat dislikes as he's used to steamrolling people. In this case, he's still trying to evict people from their homes to make way for his luxury golf development in North East Scotland.
MSPs will take evidence on Tuesday on calls for a full public inquiry into the authorities' handling of Donald Trump's golf resort in Aberdeenshire.
The Public Petitions Committee will hear from Menie resident David Milne whose petition for an inquiry has been signed by 19,000 people.
Including me and a lot of people I know, there's a lot of anger over this.
Mr Trump's £750m luxury golf and housing resort on the Menie estate in Aberdeenshire was approved in 2008, and finally opened last summer.
Mr Milne said: "I'm grateful to the thousands and thousands of members of the public who have supported our call for a full inquiry into the Trump fiasco, which I believe is the only way to get to the bottom of this murky affair, to establish the truth and to ensure nothing like this ever happens again.
This includes a documentary team being arrested for the umm, 'crime' of interviewing those who Trump wants evicted in their own homes. Grampian Police was forced to issue an apology about it.
There's quite a lot of opposition to it since the the Scottish Government made it clear they were 100% behind Trump and completely against the people who live in the area, many of whom have lost homes through 'Compulsory Purchase' orders being slapped on their homes. A Compulsory Purchase order means the owner has to sell, however, these haven't been used since World War Two when the UK government wanted to buy villages in the UK to be used to train troops for D-Day and fighting in Europe. This, although unfair to those that lived there, it was seen by many as necessary for the winning of the war. What no-one ever expected them to be used for was so a millionaire (billionaire?) could forcibly evict people from their houses to make way for his property development. Throughout the whole process, Trump has been back by politicians throughout Scotland who didn't give a fuck about those who live here.
More about the documentary about it all can be found here:
http://www.youvebeentrumped.com/youvebeentrumped.com/THE_MOVIE.htmlBasically, Scottish politicians and Police have been behaving in a way that would disgrace most third-world dictatorships.
