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| The fantastic and gifted Dr Donald Trump |
There is fantastic news for Ayrshire and Central Scotland
this week. My hero Dr Donald Trump has bought the derelict golf course and hotel known as Turnberry.
In a statement, Dr Trump said it was "an honour and
privilege to own one of golf's greatest and most exciting properties". He
has purchased the entire South Ayrshire complex, including the hotel, from
Dubai-based group Leisurecorp for an undisclosed sum. He will invest millions
of pounds securing thousands of jobs and turning the hotel from little more
than a boarding house into a place with the highest levels of luxury. Amazing
news!
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| The derelict hotel at Turnberry will become the Best in Europe! |
The Aberdeen area has benefited enormously from the
trickle-down effect of many rich and clever people basically outwitting
planners and their quiche-eating supporters by developing whatever they want
wherever they want and providing jobs for hundreds of green-keepers, plumbers,
electricians and other skilled tradesmen in the process.
Naturally the great unwashed and the moaning middle classes
are busy opposing every creative change and enterprising idea Dr Trump
proposes. Local authority planners are blind to the benefits of his fantastic
golf courses and they will be crawling all over this latest move, checking to
see if anything doesn't tally with existing consents. That is what planning has
been reduced to by the RTPI and its Scottish counterparts (who publish the most boring professional journal in the World) led by former career civil servant
Wee Craigie McLaren from their posh Edinburgh New Town offices. No elitism
there of course - but no innovation, creativity or enterprise either! In fact
they are the Enemies of Enterprise - the dead hand of bureaucracy floating in a
stagnant pool of newts and toads! They are
the puppet-masters who pull the strings of Development Management, formerly
known as Development Control which has traditionally been the dumping ground
for planners who were unfit to hold down a proper job in local authority
planning.
Anyway I digress. Many congratulations to Ayrshire and
Central Scotland on being the beneficiaries of this fantastic intervention by
my favourite doctor. It gets a Gold Star and a big tick in my little black
book.
Cheeriebye for now.
2 comments:
As the daughter of a Ph.D., may I point out that when someone is given an honourary doctorate, it is not acceptable to give them the title Dr. This is reserved for those who have put in the time and study to earn a doctorate by doing the required academic work. An honourary doctorate is like an honourary anything - nothing of real substance.
Hello again Anonymous,
Thank you for your helpful comment. I will reconsider this form of address and come up with something appropriate in future posts. Perhaps Honorary Doctor Trump or Hon Dr Trump might make the distinction between academic effort and work for the economic well-being of the country.
Thanks for joining the debate!
Yours in planning
Dave T
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