Dear All
The Glasgow Housing Association saga has taken a dramatic new twist with two senior executives at Glasgow Housing Association (GHA) stepping down.
The GHA has had a trouble existence since it first came into being following a vote by tenants to become tenants of the Association.
In effect the tenants were blackmailed by the UK Labour Government that if they didn’t change then the government wouldn’t write of the debt and renovations wouldn’t go ahead.
The tenants were sold a pig in a poke.
The political architect of GHA was Wendy Alexander; she is part responsible for failing to ensure that the systems were in place that the GHA ran properly.
Alexander is big on vision and short on delivery, this is very much her donkey.
The GHA scandal was compounded by the failure in speedy stock transfer which led to the Scottish SNP Government to act decisively in demanding real action and not platitudes.
Now, GHA chief executive Taroub Zahran is going and the vice chairman Fred Shedden has resigned with immediate effect.
Good and not before time.
In a letter today in the Glasgow Herald, Fred Shedden complaints bitterly that he was forced to resign.
In the interests of fairness, his letter can be found here.
So what now?
I have a suggestion, the tenants of the GHA should be re-balloted and following a successful vote, the social housing stock should be returned to Glasgow City Council.
This would allow the accountability and oversight that ‘champagne socialist’ Wendy Alexander failed to deliver to the people of Glasgow.
Wendy Alexander, Labour MSP failed the poor again!
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University
The Glasgow Housing Association saga has taken a dramatic new twist with two senior executives at Glasgow Housing Association (GHA) stepping down.
The GHA has had a trouble existence since it first came into being following a vote by tenants to become tenants of the Association.
In effect the tenants were blackmailed by the UK Labour Government that if they didn’t change then the government wouldn’t write of the debt and renovations wouldn’t go ahead.
The tenants were sold a pig in a poke.
The political architect of GHA was Wendy Alexander; she is part responsible for failing to ensure that the systems were in place that the GHA ran properly.
Alexander is big on vision and short on delivery, this is very much her donkey.
The GHA scandal was compounded by the failure in speedy stock transfer which led to the Scottish SNP Government to act decisively in demanding real action and not platitudes.
Now, GHA chief executive Taroub Zahran is going and the vice chairman Fred Shedden has resigned with immediate effect.
Good and not before time.
In a letter today in the Glasgow Herald, Fred Shedden complaints bitterly that he was forced to resign.
In the interests of fairness, his letter can be found here.
So what now?
I have a suggestion, the tenants of the GHA should be re-balloted and following a successful vote, the social housing stock should be returned to Glasgow City Council.
This would allow the accountability and oversight that ‘champagne socialist’ Wendy Alexander failed to deliver to the people of Glasgow.
Wendy Alexander, Labour MSP failed the poor again!
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University
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