Tuesday, November 11, 2008

I Love Jeremy

I love this article concerning Donald Trump, “a golden bogey on the unsullied face of a newborn child,” by Jeremy Clarkson,

"Greetings from the bunker. As I write, the MP for Ipswich is running around the country calling through his beard for me to be sacked. And the English Collective of Prostitutes is out for blood as well.

But let’s be honest, shall we? There are more important things to worry about than what some balding and irrelevant middle-aged man might have said on a crappy BBC2 motoring show. Such as the war in Congo, the dramatic interest rate cut, the second coming in America and – most important of all – the gradual transformation of Scotland from a country full of deer and inventors into an enormous golf course.

Just last week an idiotic-looking American man whose hair is on back to front was given permission by cash-strapped Scottish politicians to build what sounds like the single most ghastly development the world has ever seen on top of what appears to be all of Aberdeenshire.

Donald Trump, owner of the Miss World pageant and believed – by me – to be the world’s largest consumer of onyx, says it will be the greatest golf course in the world. Can you even begin to imagine the depths to which he will sink in pursuit of this billion-dollar goal? How many pillars will there be? How many giant stone dogs will guard the entrance? It’ll be McLexus Central. And, really and truly, is it necessary?

There are already, by my calculations, nearly 600 golf courses in Scotland......."


Article can be read in full at:

www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/jeremy_clarkson/article5113220.ece


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