Lucas-aid Or Caroline, No?

Good lord. I’ll go the foot of The Great Dunes of Scot­land. The Trump lot and their usual slavishly-slavering lack­eys are up in arms again. Such sens­it­iv­ity from those habitu­ally so boor­ish themselves.

It seems that by sign­ing up to buy a bit of non-Trump land in the vicin­ity of Trump’s glor­i­fied pitch and putt course, Brighton MP and Green Party chief Car­oline Lucas has com­mit­ted some sort of immoral act because, well, she “disna bide here”. Ach weel. Given that a democratically-constituted Aber­deen­shire Coun­cil com­mit­tee voted openly and in line with its Stand­ing Orders to say, “Cheers for the offer, Don­nie min, but it’s nae really fit we want on the coast, but good luck to you” in Novem­ber 2007 and the plan­ning applic­a­tion was then called in by the Scot­tish Gov­ern­ment of being of “national interest”, then that’s when it became a NATIONAL issue. That would be why Dr Lucas has the same right as every­one else to buy a bit of land wherever she wishes as long as she has the siller with which to pay for it. Iron­ic­ally filthy-rich US cit­izens “com­ing ower here and buy­ing up a wir grun” and renam­ing topo­graph­ical fea­tures because, “Well, I OWN ‘em, buddy – you got a prob­lem with that?” has raised barely a whim­per or grumble in the usual circles. Funny that. Crazy golf.

Like­wise, the oppro­brium piled on top of tune­ful local quine Annie Len­nox who had the temer­ity to ques­tion the ACSEF/Union Square/Gardens/Fluffy Kittens/Mam’s Ain Skirlie (choose your own friendly and beyond-criticism iden­tity) mar­ket­ing idiocy was, her detract­ors admit­ted, because, well, ken. “She hisna bid­den here since afore The Tour­ists had their first hit, so she has nae right to com­ment, the peroxide-heidit lim­mer”. The fact that the blessed Sir Alex Fer­guson, Free­man of the Grey Toon and nod­ding dog for the Wood Chuck­ies and Slabs Car Park Roof, ske­daddled from Cults in Novem­ber 1986 seems to have passed by the noses of the forelock-tuggers who laud him as a saga­cious spokes­man whose views are to be respec­ted and held in the highest pos­sible regard. Maybe those who thus pro­mote him believe he’s still the Dons’ man­ager, of course, and that his luck’s just run out a bit lately. Can I hold him per­son­ally respons­ible for sign­ing John Ing­lis, Ilian Kiriakov and Leon Mike then? Some do a great line in hypo­crisy and double stand­ards in this wee corner of the archipelago, do they not?

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