Edinburgh Sucks! | Trevor Davies gives 2 year-old the finger!

City Development

Trevor Davies gives 2 year-old the finger!

By The Basa ⋅ December 13, 2006 ⋅

City planning convener, the person who came last in the recent TWAT Party leadership race and TWAT Extrordinaire, Trevor Davies last night both stunned and shocked carol singing protesters, including children, with an obscene one-fingered gesture as he entered a champagne reception for supporters of a controversial scheme to redevelop Edinburgh’s Old Town.

Save Our Old Town (SOOT) last night protested peacefully outside the champagne reception provided by Mountgrange boss, multi millionaire Manish Chande. A cross section of the community which included toddlers, students, and pensioners sang traditional Christmas songs which were changed - to reflect their feelings about the Caltongate Development. The songs were good humoured, jovial and were in good taste.

The event for supporters of the Caltongate Development which included local dignitaries, architects, councillors and business people was held in the Fruitmarket Gallery, just yards from the threatened historic buildings and views.

A cross section of the community which included toddlers, students, and pensioners sang traditional Christmas songs which were changed - to reflect their feelings about the Caltongate Development. The songs were good humoured, jovial and were in good taste.

Many guests attended and appeared amused by the singing and ingenuity of the songs. All except Cllr Trevor Davies: when he heard the following verse he became angry and stuck up his middle finger to the protestors

THE SOOT SONG
(to the tune of Weel May the Keel Row)
“Trevor is a planner,
But he’s not got a banner
He’s selling off the Old Toon
To build a big hotel”

Cllr Davies’ gesticulation to the Chair of the Old Town Community Council, and Sally Richardson, Secretary of the Canongate Community Forum whilst she was holding her two year old daughter, Lily in her arms who was joining in the singing, shocked and stunned the protesters. It even shocked and stunned his wife/female partner as she grabbed his jacket and dragged him into the building - maybe his little blue pill would have been wasted last night.

Sally Richardson said “We were singing next to our banner, most of the guests appeared to enjoy the singing and my 2 year-old Lily was enjoying the party. When Trevor arrived we changed the words to our song for his benefit – he clearly was angry and stuck up his middle finger to us. Luckily Lily does not know what that means but we got a clear message from him. I am of the opinion that since he attended the Mountgrange’s party in his capacity of Planning Convener that he should resign from his position. Mountgrange has six planning applications in front of his committee over Christmas, Davies clearly will not listen to any of our concerns indeed at the next Planning Committee we go to, are we to look forward to being rudely gesticulated at by Trevor if he does not agree with us.”

Surely our council leader Rasputin Aitken will not want this sort of behaviour from his cabinet and this will ensure that Trevor ‘The Finger’ Davies must be IMMEDIATELY FIRED from his current position not only for this FingerGate behaviour but also to avoid any future conflicts of interest that may have transpired over the champagne glasses. But knowing this corrupt council he will probably get stuck on the New Years Honours List “Lord Asbo of FingerGate” anyone?