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  • To put a bit of balance on the debate, the golf course proposal had huge local support (obviously outwith the Menie estate residents). The local press portrayed those against the bid as lunatic tree hugging weirdos, the two councillors who were vehemently against the bid were kicked out of their party, and much prosperity was promised to the region. When you add in the fact the area has been underfunded for years, Aberdeen is still waiting for a bypass that has been in the planning stages since the early 1950s, and all the ingredients were there for Trump to get his way. Thankfully the local press have been found out to be the corrupt scumbags they are now before they supported more destruction on behalf of large corporations.

    Huge local support? How do you know this? Because the Press and Journal and the Evening Express had some 'poll' or some vox pops?

    Those two councillors were kicked out because the rest of the sheep on that board didn't want to have to go back to their paymasters - the Aberdeen 'business community' and say 'we did the right thing, unfortunately not the thing that you wanted' - Stuart Milne and Sir Ian Woods influence is all pervasive in this small hick town that just happens to have oil wealth

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