Trump spits the dummy over British debate to ban him from country :)

I doubt if much will come out of it, but the UK parliament is obliged to debate the issue of banning Trump after his ridiculous promise to ban Muslims from the US (oh the karma darlings). This comes after the parliamentary petition to do so went well over the required 100,000 signatures, to more than 560,000 wanting to ban Trump.

So Trump goes all hissy fit angry and states he's going to pull a US$1billion investment from Scotland if the ban goes ahead.

The US Republican presidential candidate, who became the focus of the petition after his call for Muslims to be banned from entering the US, reacted on Wednesday by saying his organisation had plans to invest more than £200m in the development of his resort in South Ayrshire and invest £500m in a golf course in Aberdeen.

“Any action to restrict travel would force the Trump Organisation to immediately end these and all future investments we are currently contemplating in the United Kingdom,” his company said in a statement. The Guardian 

Given Trumps record of exaggeration and lies, my guess is he's just seriously exaggerated the amount of money involved. According to him the US$1billion is for a resort and a golf course. That's it. 

In fact as it turns out, the locals near the golf course site absolutely despise Trump, particularly after his Muslim banning comments. There has been long running disputes with the Scottish over Trump the bully boy, etc. And the money that's been put into the project so far is no where near what was promised. I'd say the Scottish would be beside themselves with glee if Trump was banned and they never had to have anything to do with him again. 

This is what the Scottish think of him now, and what's actually happening with his big investment there:

By Wednesday, almost all of Scotland’s political establishment, and even its universities, had made clear their disapproval of Trump’s latest outburst. 

Nicola Sturgeon, Scotland’s first minister, announced she was withdrawing the U.S. mogul’s membership of GlobalScot, an international business network, with “immediate effect.” 

Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen stripped Trump of an honorary degree awarded in 2010, describing his comments as “wholly incompatible” with its values. 

The Scottish government’s International Development Minister Humza Yousaf, himself a Muslim, called Trump’s comments “hate speech” and warned that his proposed policy, if implemented, would transform the U.S. into an “apartheid state.” 

Trump’s comments were “divisive, hateful and designed to cause division between communities,” Yousaf said. 

Patrick Harvie, a Scottish Green MSP, lodged a motion at the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh, condemning Trump for comments which he said appear “increasingly fascist.” 

“This bigoted blowhard of a man is being rightly condemned far and wide, and I’m confident that Scotland will reject his extremist rhetoric,”  said Harvie, who had previously clashed with Trump over a proposed wind farm near the Aberdeenshire golf course. 

In light of the Republican hopeful’s latest remarks, Harvie said he could not imagine any “self-respecting person wanting to spend money” in any of Trump’s business interests in Scotland. 

Scottish ministers and Scottish National Party MPs urged Theresa May, the U.K. home secretary, to consider banning Trump from traveling to the U.K. Politico   

Pretty strong stuff. As for what's happening with his investment there, he's been to court over it twice and lost, attempting to bully the locals into doing what he wants. After his second loss it's already clear the investment appears to be stalled anyway.

Trump’s investment in Aberdeenshire has so far been much less substantial than originally billed and he has repeatedly declined to say when he might start planned construction on a second golf course, hotel expansion and more than 2,000 holiday and residential homes. Politico