Trump to scrap US$1billion in UK investments if he’s barred from Britain

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Agence France-Presse

Trump to scrap US$1billion in UK investments if he’s barred from Britain
Agence France-Presse in London
PUBLISHED : Thursday, 07 January, 2016, 12:29pm
UPDATED : Thursday, 07 January, 2016, 12:29pm



Donald Trump will scrap US$1 billion of planned investments in Britain if he is banned from entering the country, a spokesman for the US politician’s business empire said.

British lawmakers are expected to debate whether the Republican presidential candidate should be barred from Britain for alleged “hate speech”, a move the Trump Organisation said on Wednesday would set a “dangerous precedent”.

The organisation said the US tycoon had planned to invest a total of £700 million pounds (US$1 billion) in two golf courses he owns in Scotland.

“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,” spokesman George Sorial said in a statement.


Read more: http://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1898526/trump-scrap-us1billion-uk-investments-if-hes-barred-britain

[PaulaFarrell]

1. I think this would make some people in scotland happy

he rode roughshod over the locals to build at least one of these courses

[7wo7rees]

2. Maybe Donald they are ok with that.

Screw your golf courses.

[pnwmom]

3. Lucky UK! How can we get Trump to stay out of the US, too?

[world wide wally]

11. By banning hate speech?

[trillion]

12. +1000000

[rpannier]

4. Been considering a trip to the UK among other destinations

This moves the UK up the list

[TreasonousBastard]

5. First, he doesn't have a billion to spend...

on Scottish golf courses. He's got investors who put up most of the money and could probably do a better job building it.

And then, the one in Aberdeen looks like a loser anyway, and this gives him an excuse to dump it.

Word is that Parliament won't actually ban him, but hopes this will shut him up. They'll learn that nothing shuts him up.

[Wellstone ruled]

6. Got to think this Guy is getting closer to the end of

his Fifteen minutes of fame every time he opens his mouth. Maybe this is his exit strategy.

[bvf]

14. Have you seen this?

http://www.theonion.com/article/will-be-end-trumps-campaign-says-increasingly-nerv-52002

[Wellstone ruled]

18. Trump is just a Bully with a bullhorn.

Media is already are feeling the wrath of most Americans. As usual they are behind the curve because they rely on Consultant Contracts and you and I know how that goes. All about the money.

[PSPS]

7. LOL. It's come to the "I was going to do (big thing), but now I won't !!11!!!1"

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I remember Bartcop always got a laugh out of this. He would routinely get messages that said, "Hey, I WAS going to contribute $100 but, after reading one sentence in the thousands of posts you've written, I've changed my mind!!!11!!"

[truthisfreedom]

8. Let's shoot for every country in the western world! Eastern too!

If Trump is banned from Canada and the UK before he's the nominee, he'll be an automatic laughingstock and our candidate can use that in every comeback.

[Fuddnik]

9. They're better off without him.

Seems like he screws everyone who gets involved with him.

[world wide wally]

10. Do you mean he can't buy the UK?

At least some English speaking people have brains

[trillion]

13. Quick name the petty reactionary world leader that Donald would be just like if he got elected!

[T_i_B]

15. £700 million for 2 golf courses?

Pardon my lack of golf knowledge, but how on earth do you blow that much money on golf courses?

[Gothmog]

16. It is funny that this issue is being considered by the UK parliament

Trump is a joke

[Gregorian]

17. Threats are all this guy has. Let someone else invest. They couldn't be worse than this piece of

[wordpix]

19. I have a Scottish friend who told me he's hated in Scotland due to his golf course plans

I'm sure most of the locals hope he'll go away.

[Eugene]

20. Donald Trump throwing tantrum over calls for UK ban, says activist

Source: The Guardian

Donald Trump throwing tantrum over calls for UK ban, says activist

Libby Brooks Scotland correspondent
Thursday 7 January 2016 13.58 GMT

The campaigner whose petition to ban Donald Trump from entering the UK was signed by more than half a million people has dismissed the tycoon’s threat to shelve £700m worth of investment in Scotland as a “temper tantrum”.

Trump threatened to withdraw investment worth more than £200m in a South Ayrshire resort and £500m in his golf course in Aberdeen after it emerged that MPs would debate banning him from entering the UK over his pledge to ban Muslims from entering the US.

Suzanne Kelly, whose online petition triggered the Commons debate on 18 January, dismissed Trump’s move as “sheer hypocrisy”. She said: “Here in Aberdeen, we have seen these wildly inflated figures bandied about for years, and he never invests as much as he claims.

“The man who wants to be president of the United States, rather than taking this opportunity to apologise for painting all Muslims as terrorists who need to be monitored and kept out of America, has taken the opportunity to throw a temper tantrum instead.”

Kelly noted that Trump, a frontrunner in the race to become the Republican presidential candidate, had previously threatened to pull investment from his Aberdeenshire course if a planned offshore windfarm went ahead.

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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jan/07/donald-trump-temper-tantrum-uk-ban-activist-scotland