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The Scottish Housing Regulator Grabs Mismanaged Thistle Housing Association – SIX MONTHS LATER …and what?

Posted on 21 February 2019 by GrabTheThistle

3 YEARS + 46 DAYS
since Thistle’s mismanaged Major Works Programme started on 7th January 2016
2 YEARS + 85 DAYS
since 30th November 2016 when “all of the works to all of the houses in Toryglen will be complete“. Today, 21st February 2019, still incomplete and still no completion date

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The Scottish Housing Regulator Grabs Mismanaged Thistle Housing Association – SIX MONTHS LATER …and what?

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1 March 2021 – From this date, Thistle Housing is now Sanctuary Scotland Click the graphic below for Sanctuary’s website

7 January 2016 – The contract start date

30 November 2016 – All work, all of it, to be complete *BY* this date

MAJOR WORKS PROGRAMME STILL NOT COMPLETE

19 April 2021 – Is Sanctuary Any Better than the Corrupt Thistle Housing or Just the Same Old, Same Old?

8 March 2021 – The Sanctuary Bullies – A New Era of Intimidation in Toryglen?

1 March 2021 – Goodbye Thistle Housing. You won’t be missed.

20 February 2021 – Sorry is the Hardest Word (but so easy when it’s not meant!)

21 August 2020 – Corrupt Thistle Housing Slammed by the Press AGAIN!

14 August 2020 – Corrupt Thistle Housing Trashed by Scottish Housing Regulator AGAIN!

1 August 2020 – Thistle Attempts to Subvert Shareholders’ SGM

29 July 2020 – Thistle Shareholders Demand A Special General Meeting

27 July 2020 – Thistle Housing’s corruption & secrecy fail yet another resident

14 July 2020 – Glasgow Times exposes Thistle board members’ resignations after £500,000 wasted

10 July 2020 – Scottish Housing News published 3 July 2020 – Thistle Housing’s last local board members resign over scandalous waste of money

21 May 2020 – Within 24 hours, yet another substandard roof sheds tiles

20 May 2020 – More danger to residents as substandard roof sheds tiles

27 February 2020 – Poorly built roofs shed more chimney pots and tiles putting residents in jeopardy

23 February 2020 ….and it all came tumbling down AGAIN!

19 February 2020 – Regulator publishes the latest engagement plan regarding Thistle Housing. It ain’t good!

15 February 2020 – Thistle’s proposed takeover by the UK’s most indebted housing association, now 1,500 days into its incomplete and dangerous 14 week Major Works Programme

13 February 2020 – Failed Thistle Housing to be taken over by Sanctuary Scotland

7 February 2020 – Corrupt Thistle Housing to be taken over in a few weeks

10 January 2020 – Bob’s Bargain Basement Bazaar – Thistle Housing now to be closed, assets up for a quick transfer to another housing association. It won’t be missed!

9 January 2020 – Thistle Housing in a desperate fire sale having broken every rule in the book

7 January 2020 – now into the fifth year of the scandalous, corrupt Thistle Housing management’s failure of the taxpayer funded refurb of Toryglen – the failures continue even through Thistle Housing’s death throes as the self seeking management continue to bleed the association dry

21 December 2019 – The FOURTH Christmas of failed and soon to be gone Thistle Housing’s disaster but no respite for residents

9 December 2019 – Glasgow Times – Thistle’s failed management lashes out at residents

5 December 2019 – Not much Christmas cheer for Toryglen residents

30 November 2019 – St Andrew’s Day – Today, the soon to be gone Thistle Housing THREE years late in fulfilling the Major Works Programme

29 Nov 2019 – Black Friday. With Thistle, every day is black

29 July 2019 – Asbestos in Toryglen Flats. Thistle management ignores fears

26 November 2019 – Thistle Housing, an epic multimillion pound failure waiting for the chop

16 November 2019 – The soon to be gone Thistle Housing hates the truth and this blog site

1 November 2019 – Toryglen residents vindicated but not crawing about it

31 October 2019 – It’s ZERO Day. Time’s up for Thistle Housing. It’s the day of reckoning

29 October 2019 – Evening Times, Scottish Housing Regulator’s Third Damning Report on Thistle Housing. When will this failed and corrupt association be laid to rest?

27 August 2019 – Evening Times, “The Scandal of Thistle Housing in Toryglen”

27 August 2019 – 1,000 days since Thistle’s refurb contract failed on 30 November 2016 and still not complete

22 August 2019 – Media blasts Thistle Housing after Scottish Housing Regulator published damning report

21 August 2019 – Housing Regulator Savages Thistle Housing on Day of AGM

20 August 2019 – Thistle Housing Association AGM Tomorrow

15 July 2019 – Thistle Housing’s shoddy building work exposed yet again

25 June 2019 – Thistle management. Lies, stories, ignorance and now DANGER. The missing part? Honesty.

19 April 2019, Daily Record

17 April 2019, Rutherglen Reformer reports on more Thistle Housing failures

15 April 2019, Evening Times

1st April 2019 – Who’s fooling who?

21 February 2019 – Right is Might. Toryglen residents reignite the struggle to defend themselves against the tribal and corrupt Thistle Housing bullying cabal.

19 February 2019 – £1.1million disappeared. The Director has still vanished, the Chairperson, the elusive Director’s drinking pal, gone. All without any explanation at all. Jeez, she’ll be missed.

7 January 2019 – Now entering the fourth year of a supposed 14 weeks to complete work and Thistle Housing wonders why Toryglen residents are angry? Being constantly being fed infantile stories thinking they might be believed might have something to do with it? Thistle’s Director still vanished.

As we enter 2019…where’s Thistle’s Director?

30 November 2018 – Now 1,065 days since Thistle Housing’s constantly failed Major Works Programme started and now, today, TWO YEARS late. No explanation, no responsibility, no clue …and where is Thistle’s Director?

28 October 2018 – Today, now 700 days after Thistle’s inept programme failed. Now being investigated by the Scottish Housing Regulator. Problem is that Thistle’s Director is no where to be seen, talked to or interviewed. Bit smelly, that …or just simple pure coincidence? Aye, right!

4 September 2018 – Evening Times – Shoddy workmanship on ALL chimneys ends up in near disaster. Thistle was told two years previously but they ignored qualified residents. Thistle’s inept Operations Manager refused to talk to affected residents. Where’s Thistle’s Director? No one knows.

25 August 2018 – Evening Times – Thistle Housing’s “non technical” and grossly failed management slammed by the Scottish Housing Regulator. Where’s Thistle’s Director? Vanished!

24 August 2018 – Evening Times – The Scottish Housing Regulator takes control of Thistle Housing. Meanwhile, Thistle’s Director has disappeared

23 August 2018 – The Regulator takes action but no one knows the whereabouts of Thistle’s so called responsible Director. Vanished with the loot???

25 July 2018 – 600 days after Thistle’s Major Works Programme contract with E.ON failed on 30 November 2016, still not finished

20 July 2018 – EveningTimes. Thistle’s failed Major Works Programme staggers into deeper depths of failure.

6 June 1944 – Never forget.

6 June 2018 – Corruption. Mismanagement. Waste of resources. Self interest. Liars. Nepotism. Failure. Thistle Housing management.

18 April 2018 – Thistle’s contract with E.ON 500 days late. No explanation, no responsibility, no responses to queries, no clue.

17 March 2018 – Asbestos contamination? Thistle attempts to blank it. Unfortunately, residents have photographs. When will Thistle’s lies end?

With tribal Thistle, nothing changes. Or so they think.

17 March 2018, 800 DAYS SINCE THISTLE’S CONTRACT STARTED ON 7 JANUARY 2016. WORK STILL NOT COMPLETE.

27 February 2018 – Thistle’s contract with E.ON 450 days late. No explanation, no responsibility, no responses to queries, no clue.

22 February 2018 – Today, 777 days since Thistle signed the contract for the Major Works Programme. Will this ever end? Meanwhile, Thistle ignores residents’ fears.

Maybe Aye, Maybe Naw

5 February 2018 – Front page, Evening Times. Thistle bullies at work

7 January 2018 – Thistle Housing’s failed Major Works Programme two years later. Thistle stays silent, refuses to respond to residents’ fears, residents barred from association membership

Thistle Housing’s Book of Rules. Written in pencil.

26 January 2018, 750 DAYS SINCE THISTLE’S CONTRACT STARTED ON 7 JANUARY 2016. WORK STILL NOT COMPLETE.

8 January 2018 – Thistle’s contract with E.ON 400 days late. No explanation, no responsibility, no responses to queries, no clue.

30 November 2016 – All work, all of it, to be complete BY this date