Bohemian Rhapsody... by Donald Trump?

Thanks to @PuppetTrump

 I've blogged in the past (see footnotes) about the horrors Donald Trump and his ego are inflicting on Scotland with his 'golf resort'. His destruction of a SSSI, the bulldozing of a piece of wild Aberdeenshire coastline and his bullying of local families in an attempt to move them from their homes and land have been documented by film maker Anthony Baxter @AntBaxter in his multi-award winning movie You've Been Trumped.

http://www.youvebeentrumped.com/youvebeentrumped.com/TAKE_ACTION.html

 

The organisation leading the campaign against Donald Trump @TrippingUpTrump is online here:

http://www.trippinguptrump.com/

All you need to know is there.

Tripping Up Trump (TUT) has established itself as the popular movement against the use of compulsory purchase for private profit. TUT's campaign has stood alongside the people and protected environment threatened by Donald Trump’s development in Aberdeenshire.

The TUT campaign has been key to Donald Trump's retreat from the use of compulsory purchase orders.

The threat of forced evictions was deliberately held over the heads of the Menie families for nearly two years. Donald Trump's track record shows he cannot be trusted to behave reasonably towards his neighbours or act responsibly towards the environment. He has bullied and mislead from the start.
TUT is committed to supporting the rights of the families at Menie and will highlight and seek to stop any further bullying or other wrongs by the Trump Organisation in Scotland.

We need your support. Please spread the word and join this important campaign.
Enter The Bunker here.
Join our membership here.

Yesterday, the latest in the campaign against Trump was launched, and let's hope this goes viral! Brian May has granted permission for a remake of Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody, and here it is (oh no it isn't any longer... see below for location....)  starring none other than The Donald, The Hair and his Great Doones of Scotland.



Brilliant. Enjoy!

UPDATE March 30th:

Hazel Cameron posted an announcement 16 hours ago

The video has caused such a sensation – over 20,000 views in 3 days – that Youtube have been forced to take it down. We’re fighting this – but meanwhile here it is again on the vimeo site

http://www.indiegogo.com/Bohemian-Rhapsody-Donald-Trump-style?c=activity

http://vimeo.com/39416777

Donald Trump does Bohemian Rhapsody from Hazel Cameron on Vimeo.

Nem

#oneofmenie

UPDATES:

The Daily Mail now has a long article and the words:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2120947/Donald-Trump-mocked-Aberdeenshire-golf-course-opponents-Bohemian-Rhapsody-parody.html

though I had it here first :0)

A report in @UrbanRealm with useful links.
http://www.urbanrealm.com/news/3428/Trump_puppet_satirises_Menie_golf_estate.html

 Past blogs:

http://nemesisrepublic.blogspot.co.uk/2009/09/trump-wants-it-all.html

http://nemesisrepublic.blogspot.co.uk/2009/10/more-trump.html

http://nemesisrepublic.blogspot.co.uk/2009/09/scotland-brave-trump-and-trams.html

More McTrump!

Menie, Aberdeenshire copyright http://www.danphillipsphotographer.co.uk

Sorry peeps, I've not had much time for blogging, although I have been Twittering (it's addictive...)

So for today here's a link to a fabby blog which I follow, and another wry chucklet (see previous post below http://nemesisrepublic.blogspot.com/2009/09/trump-wants-it-all.html ) at the Trump saga unfolding in Aberdeenshire.

http://auchterness.blogspot.com/2009/10/cowards-of-county.html

Well, if you don't laugh you'll cry. Buckets.

And indeed in spades, now I come to think of it. Trump's fond of sand. Wants to build his golf course on it.

The picture at the top is where he wants to build it (and a whole vast 'luxury development' as well.)

I stole it from here

http://www.danphillipsphotographer.co.uk/section327744_111434.html

The Edinburgh Evening News photographer. I hope he doesn't mind. I know it's copyright but it's all in a good cause, Dan,

http://www.trippinguptrump.com/

and it looks a great deal better looming large on your site with the writing under. There's still time to sign that petition, too.

As he says on his Twitter page:

Name dan phillips
Location Edinburgh
Bio Edinburgh Evening News Photographer. Drop me a line with your picture opportunities

I hope to be back soon with some catching up!

Nem

Trump wants it all...

See blog

http://nemesisrepublic.blogspot.com/2009/09/scotland-brave-trump-and-trams.html


Just uploaded, please do watch as Menie resident David Milne seeks support for himself and other residents resisting Donald Trump's attempts to have Compulsory Purchase Orders placed on his home (a converted coastguard's building, in a setting so beautiful no wonder he doesn't want to leave).

Latest news:

http://www.trippinguptrump.com/news

Meanwhile, Trump has been accused of spying! Here's the article in the Sunday Times:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/scotland/article6850981.ece

September 27, 2009

Donald Trump spied on us, say activists
Mark Macaskill

Donald Trump has been accused of using a mole to obtain leaked e-mails which he claims reveal the identity of the campaign group that dressed up statues across Scotland as the American tycoon.

Trump claims that the messages, which he has passed to police, show that the publicity stunt was organised by Tripping Up Trump (TUT), which opposes the magnate’s plan to build a £1 billion golf resort in Aberdeenshire and force out homeowners standing in the way of the development.

However, members of the group claim they are not involved with the Menie Liberation Front, which has claimed responsibility for dressing up 20 statues in Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Stirling with Donald Trump masks and golf clubs “to symbolise the way Trump thinks he can walk over Scotland”.

The incident is being investigated by Grampian police... (Read it all via the link above and and wee yourself laughing! Honestly, have the police nothing better to investigate?!)

Excellent publicity stunt though, has certainly raised the profile of the campaign.

The statue of James Clerk Maxwell in Edinburgh, one of many in Scotland given the Ol' Combover treatment on Thursday. It is reported that Rebus has been drafted in to track down the culprits.

Here's the STV News report from last week

http://video.stv.tv/bc/stvnews-n2-20090924-trump/

Meanwhile, the petition is growing, but an appeal has been made to try to get signatures past 10,000 before the crucial vote this week.

http://38degrees.org.uk/page/s/aberdeenshire

Motion by Martin Ford

http://www.aberdeenshire.gov.uk/committees/files_meta/802572870061668E802575F60057AB1A%5C%2803%29%20Notices%20of%20Motion.pdf

Back soon with the promised expanded Middlesex Guildhall blog, and more updates of other things connected with history and architecture and campaigns and stuff.

Nem