So Trumpo and Nigel Garage are best pals. No major surprise there. They are increasingly bearing an uncanny resemblance to Monty Burns & Smithers in The Simpsons. If you're not aware of The Simpsons work, Smithers is obsessed with his boss Monty and spends most episodes toadying for his master and trying to pluck up the courage to tell him that he loves him...
"Have The Rolling Stones killed... do as I say!"
Garage is quite literally, Smithers to Trumpo's Monty Burns. And as The Guardian reported today, much like when Smithers dreams of him and his boss partnering up as Speedway detectives (see below), they're about to join forces against the wind farm industry that is threatening to ruin the view from Trumpo's Aberdeenshire golf resort. (Any chance of getting back to the actual story here?! Ed)...
Anyway, according to Andy Wigmore who was part of the delegation that met with Trumpo after his election win last week, the president-elect said he was “dismayed that his beloved Scotland has become overrun with ugly wind farms which he believes are a blight on the stunning landscape”.
Wigmore, the communications director for 'Leave.EU' said Trump asked them to help campaign against the spread of wind farms in near his golf concerns in Scotland.
"So I had a call from Nigel this morning and he says he's happy help us out with the wind farm thing... As long as he can bail out at the first sign of having to take on any actual responsibility to do anything as such..."
“Donald has a bugbear,” Wigmore said. “He doesn’t like wind farms at all. He said ‘When I look out of my window and I see these windmills, it offends me. Nigel, Arron (Banks – main UKIP cash donator), Andy, you have got to do something about these windmills.’
Nicely done, Andy – making sure we know he name checked you and not just the Garage and the money man.
“He said: ‘Let’s put them offshore, but why spoil the beautiful countryside.’ So he has asked us to campaign about getting rid of wind farms in the way they currently stand. I don’t want Scotland, the most beautiful country ever to be sullied by these awful windmills.”
Trump, who has gone on record as saying that global warming was nothing more than a "hoax", received a quick rebuff from Emma Pinchbeck, Exec Director of Renewable UK which operates on behalf of the wind farm industry: “Politics should not determine the future of our energy mix,” said Emma. “Offshore wind is massively popular – 75% of people in the UK support it. It’s also a vital part of our modern energy system and it’s playing a key role in Britain’s industrial success, both here and abroad.”
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Vattenfall, the Swedish energy company which runs the Aberdeenshire array, has already begun onshore construction work less than five miles south of Trump’s resort. It is co-funded by the European Union and the Scottish government and foundations for the first turbines are expected to be installed later next year, with turbines generating power from summer 2018.
A spokesman for Vattenfall said: “We’re pressing ahead because we believe that that way is substantially closed. We don’t think there’s any further opportunity for anyone to bring a legal challenge. I’m not a legal expert but that’s the advice we’ve received.”
The case continues, as does Nigel Garage's Speedway Detective day dream..
7.30am this morning. Nigel wakes up to find Trumpo in his shower...
