After watching the film You've Been Trumped and seeing how Alex Salmon and the SNP colluded with Trump, I doubt an independent Scotland would be safe in their hands.

Mick Hall from his own blog on 23rd October 2012

I have often wondered what it must be like to live in a seemingly idyllic village in Africa or India, and a transnational corporation turns up on your doorstep and sets up a business. The 4 by 4 land cruisers roll in and men with sun-glasses get out and walk up and down; then depart in a cloud of dust. After the bulldozers and earth movers have done their work and the project is up and running, your once productive plot of land which the family relies on to live, quickly becomes unproductive having been starved of water which has been diverted to the new golf resort or Coca Cola bottling plant.

When you turn to the State for redress you get nowhere as your local politician is in the pay of the transnational, or worse you end up being arrested and thrown into jail by the very police and judiciary who should be protecting you.

Last night while watching Anthony Baxter's documentary You’ve been Trumped on BBC iPlayer, I got a glimpse of what it is like to be on the receiving end of a nasty egocentric multi-national bully. In this case the billionaire property speculator Donald Trump. You might say the UK is not a third world nation, how could Trump possibly gain permission to build a £750 million Golf Resort which includes a golf course, hotel complex and approximately 200 time share properties, when planning was denied by the local council on the grounds that it was unsustainable, as it failed to conserve the sites natural heritage, for both current and future generations as the site was of special scientific interest, a unique habitat of dunes, one of the last of its kind. The Council's decision to reject Trump's plan was hardly surprising as the Scottish Environmental Protection Agency, Scottish Natural Heritage, World Wildlife Fund, the RSPB all vigorously opposed it.

However, a greedy shyster like Donald was hardly going to allow a few local politicians doing their duty to stand in his way of making a fast buck, he had a plan, he started cozying up to Scotland’s political, media and academic elites. On one visit to Aberdeenshire, he was seen in the company of senior members of the governing SNP, the head of the BBC in Scotland, the head of the local university, and a senior police officer.

The elitist wheels churned, and in no time at all the refusal of planning permission was overturned by the Scottish government led by Alex Salmon of the SNP. Who seems of late to have fallen into the Blairite trap of bowing to the will of billionaires in the hope of getting some advantageous drippings from their table.

Above, the police who arrested Anthony Baxter.

Baxter filmed it all with his camera, even when Trump's 'site manager' arranged for the local police to intimidate him by arresting and throwing him in a cell. The way the local police appeared to be only to willingly to be used as Trumps private security firm, was so reminiscent of how corrupt police officers behave in a similar situation in the third world. As is always the way when such creatures are caught out, none of Trumps hirelings were prepared to go on camera, whether members of the Scottish government, or the Grampian police who illegally detained him.

Salmon has real questions to answer not only about his boast this project would create hundreds of local jobs, which an LSE professor called dubious to say the least, but also why he slapped compulsory purchase orders on his constituents homes. Yes, his constituents, for this monstrosity is situated in his own constituency.

However it was the way local residents were treated by Trump and his hirelings which was most shocking, Michael, Molly, Susan, Finlay, and David, who have all lived there for most of their lives and refused to sell their homes to Trump, were bullied and intimidated, their water and power illegally cut off. And their homes surrounded by giant mounds of sand which blocked out their views and light. The sand had once made up a unique habitat of dunes, one of the last of its kind in the UK and which the odious Trump had destroyed without a backward glance.

After watching this film, and with Alex Salmon as PM and his party the SNP in power, if I were a Scot I would think twice before I voted yes in the 2014 referendum, for if Salmon's dealing with Murdoch and Trump are anything to go by an independent Scotland is liable to eventually look more like Singapore than a modern social democratic state.

Above: How the area looked before Trump, and his minions went to work.