See the letter on Thistle’s new website here
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.
19 January 2019 – The rats in Thistle Housing scrabbling for money from anywhere as Thistle, now into the tenth month of its 2018-2019 financial year and heading for another financial disaster with the banks breathing heavily down their brass necks. Thistle’s Director still in ‘disappeared’ mode. Toryglen residents continue to be ignored …and lied to..
7 January 2019 – Three years after Thistle Housing commenced the failed upgrades and still no end in sight. Where’s the the responsible Thistle Director? Thistle’s not saying but the arrogant Operations Manager, immediately in charge of all things Thistle, as in OPERATIONS, for some reason still around, other than frequent days off, and still grazing on a huge salary package. Toryglen residents continue to be ignored …and lied to.
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.
31 August 2018 – Late Friday, poorly fitted concrete chimney slabs fracture. Surprise? Unfortunately, No. Thistle had been constantly warned for TWO YEARS by local builder residents that the work was sub standard and trusted an inept daily contracted ‘heating engineer’ to voice his, laughingly, inexpert opinion.
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???
23 August 2018 - The Regulator marches in
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.
21 December 2017 – Now 714 days later and still not complete.
7 December 2017 – 700 days since Thistle housing Association’s contract was signed on 7 January 2016. Work still not complete but Thistle’s lies and stories abound.. Some Major works programme items not even started. Who, outwith Toryglen, would believe this farce and the lies?
2 December 2017 – Thistle Housing’s Major Works Programme one year and two days late. Ineptitude unmatched.
30 November 2017 – Now 693 days since Thistle Housing’s constantly failed Major Works Programme started and now, today, 365 days late. No explanation, no responsibility, no clue.
24 November 2017 – Whoops, now today, 359 days late and counting. With Thistle, every day is black. Deep, deep obsidian black.
22 November 2017 – Daily Record/Rutherglen Reformer – Just like it was going to be finished LAST Christmas. Meanwhile, Thistle stays silent, except for the lies. No change there then.
15 November 2017, 350 DAYS SINCE THISTLE’S E.ON CONTRACT FAILED MISERABLY ON 30 NOVEMBER 2016
18 October 2017 – Now 650 days since Thistle’s secretive and never explained contract with started E.ON was signed on 7 January 2016 to now fail with unmatched and spectacular failure. Today, nothing complete, work quality is dreadful. Will this ever end? Meantime, Thistle spits stories and obvious lies.
Thistle & E.ON no longer best buddies. Still, Thistle stays silent
This time LAST year, 2016.
7 January 2016. The date the contract, which residents knew nothing about (strangely without any penalty clauses), started.
30 November 2016. The date this £8.5million contract collapsed in ignominious failure (with no penalty clauses to fall back on) with none of the works to all of the houses in Toryglen complete. Heading for a year later, STILL not complete. Thistle (and its retained, expensive PR Consultants) stays silent.
Evening Times, 10 November 2017
AS OF 3 NOVEMBER 2017, 666 DAYS SINCE THISTLE’S CONTRACT STARTED ON 7 JANUARY 2016 AND SUBSEQUENTLY FAILED FIVE TIMES. WORK STILL NOT COMPLETE
31 October 2017 – Yet another completion date missed
Evening Times, Tuesday 31 October 2017
Thistle’s arrogant ‘don’t argue with us’ tactics (and they fingered the wrong person). Thistle stays silent.
Thistle Housing propaganda. Slippy, glossy, horrible stuff, hated by one and all, used for only one purpose.
AS OF 26 SEPTEMBER 2017, 300 DAYS SINCE THISTLE’S E.ON CONTRACT FAILED MISERABLY ON 30 NOVEMBER 2016
At this time, no workers, the place a bomb site. E.ON claims work will be finished for Christmas (2016? 2017?). Thistle stays silent.
Daily Record 7 December 2016
Thistle now battles with their favourite contractor. Meantime, as far as residents are concerned, Thistle stays silent.
Toryglen residents have just had enough of Thistle and their E.ON friends. The media know there’s something not quite right. Thistle stays silent.
Apologies are cheap specially when six months from this article, still not finished, still no completion date. Thistle stays silent.
E.ON already paid around £5million of taxpayers’ funds, now looking for a way out as Thistle’s secretive management desperately panics after multiple contract failures. Thistle stays silent.
12 July 2017, this block scaffolded for a year but no workforce for months. Not bad for a job promised to take 12 to 14 weeks. Thistle stays silent.
One year and continuing
First Minister sees the substandard work and hears the sorry tales from residents in the street. E.ON then makes more vacuous promises which quickly disappear like mist in the wind just like their invisible workforce. Thistle stays silent.
Thistle keeps EVERYTHING secret. No website. No online presence. Why? Does someone have a dark secret? “…new schedule”? That worked out well. Again. Thistle stays silent.
Now months later, still not finished, still no completion dates. Thistle stays silent.
The never ending, never finished, mismanaged, botched contract padded out with phony dates, stories and fibs. Thistle stays silent.
The Rutherglen Reformer is dismayed at Thistle’s lack of management ability and the infantile excuses offered. Thistle stays silent.
Rutherglen Reformer 7 December 2016
Daily Record – E.ON’s failed Toryglen upgrade annoys Rutherglen residents. Thistle stays silent.
Thistle management think they are right, all of the time, especially after a resident was challenged to a fight by their contractors. Everyone else disagrees. Wonder why. Meanwhile, Thistle stays silent.
Daily Record – E.ON has a record of failure. Why did Thistle not carry out due diligence? Thistle stays silent.
E.ON’s apology but worth nothing as despite a flurry of promises, months later, no change. Thistle stays silent.
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The letter’s grammar is bad as Lawrie writes in the 3rd person and says “…transfer their business and assets”. If assets are transferred then there is no partnership – it is a merger.
And why do they write the letter addressed to themselves??
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It’s a takeover not even a merger. A required takeover all due to the intransigence of Thistle’s management and many of their arrogant staff.
Grammar? Hey, come on now. It’s Thistle being discussed here.
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