Non-elected and board approved members reaching decision out with their remit .

[Kiltedviking]

How can it be right that non-elected board can change the status of a company and trust that was set up for the benefit of tenants and the community. The orders clearly state that the company must be run “ for tenants,by tenants “ . When the board of non tenants plot against those interest behind closed doors to change the truth ,what should happen. Tenant have no where to go as the powers that be stand together against their interests. Today those who have the responsibility to protect those interest are working side by side with those who have money to make and secrets to hide. It’s all to familiar ,were the truth and bad deeds are sweep under the carpet and the guilty go free at the expense of those who can’t fight back. Years later the abuse and innocent still wait for the truth and justice . Here we have a chance to do things right and to right a wrong before it happens ,but our election officers sit in silence to hide their unsavoury part and past behaviour now pushed into the shadows . So now what , do we just accept that bad people should not only get away with it but are allowed to carry on and do it again time after time. Where are the local hero’s ,or was it all a dream that came from films and books of the brave with courage have all died or disappeared like warm sunny days . Now it’s a tsunami of lies , cheats ,dirty deals and fake truth that have become the norm . There is no more good guys( if there ever was) it’s truth and justice that stands condemned to death , society is to blame and society is the ultimate victim.
Please vote NO to Cairn , they’re hiding the truth.

Hi, many thanks for all the emails . Nice to hear that so many folk are discussed by the behaviour of the board members and to hear the stories of other boards and trustees disregarding the rules and getting away with it. As for the powers that be it’s a cover up and sweep these horrendous criminal offences under the carpet. Just a note for those who wanted to know what the financial figure ,which includes missing monies and the tenants losses. It’s a mind blowing £2.4million and around 20 tenants were victims of their rights being breached . So now it’s been sweep under the carpet,closed and therefore in the past ,that’s the official position. It’s the Grenville effect ,where the innocent pay and the people in power can’t let the truth come to light ,so run down the clock and cover over the truth. The Tenants Participation Scotland seems to agree ( as per a phone call on 9 aug) and have classed it as closed. So that’s the end of the matter ,again the guilty go free . What’s the way of things now and we have to accept it and carry on . Respect . Now Closed.

[Kiltedviking]

Ive had an Email stating that some folk are pushing for an investigation into how the Council tenants managed to purchase their homes under the Pressure Area Status restrictions. Which made it illegal for any RSLs or council to sell any properties from 2006-2014 (cut off date for right to buy).So all the houses purchase in the Thurso PAS during that time would have been subject to the restrictions. I wonder how the council managed to bend the rules of their tenants but backed scrapping the rights of Pentland tenants. Therefore would they need to get the properties back or would had have to reimburse Pentland tenants for their losses. Maybe the HRC would also have to compensate all those that rights were breached. The plot thickens.

[Bill Fernie]

Right to buy ended on 31st July 2016 not in 2014. The Scottish Parliament’s Housing (Scotland) Act 2014 provided for Right to Buy to come to an end on 31 July 2016. See https://www.gov.scot/news/right-to-b...s-in-scotland/
This meant that many tenants still had protected Right To Buy Until 16 July 2016 but new tenants did not.

A leaflet explains the various things that happened over time - https://researchbriefings.files.parl...4/CBP-7174.pdf

The position in Highland was also changed by Pressured Area status being applied by Highland council - See https://www.highland.gov.uk/news/art...rented_housing

The only area in Highland where Pressured Area status did not apply was Caithness. See https://www.highland.gov.uk/news/art...ed_area_status

[Kiltedviking]

Pentland apply for an extension to PAS in 2012 and the HRC rubber stamped it with no questions asked , at the same time Council tenants in Spring Park where buying theirs and Pentland tenants where told “ no way” . There was only 20 Pentland tenants involved and none got to buy even when they were told the criteria was “ you need to be in that property for at least twenty years “. HRC was questioned on the rules of right to buy and again turned a blind eye to any rule breaking by Pentland . Pentland even sent a Mrs Macdonald from Glasgow area to question a council employee about an email on PAS sent to the Council asking about rules and conditions on right to buy and the HRC again sidestepped the whole thing. If your so sure of what happened ask the any Pentland tenants who had their right to buy taken from them. Ask them to contact you and you’ll take up their complaint , give them a guarantee if you find any wrong doing you’ll call for those involved to be brought to book. You would need to suspend any thoughts of a Cairn take over until a full enquiry of proof arises. As far the the 2014 date that was the date given by Pentland ,their excuse was “ we’re a Trust so it’s 2014 . Strange thing happened there , many tenants asked the Citizens Advice about there right as tenants and was told “ Pentland is right ,you can’t purchase” what folk didn’t know they got their information from Pentlands ex CEO who was now on the board. Some tenants push Pentland and when the SHR was called in , they then stated that they did give people the chance . Which was a total act of fiction and a lie , what you fail to comprehend is Pentland did what they wanted when they wanted at the direct expense of tenants rights . They spend tenants money as if it was a lottery Win , on wild schemes and jaunts to Austria . When tenants didn’t and still don’t have proper insulation or heating . Pentland can’t be defended by those who don’t know what was going on , it only shows some people were blinded to the mis-handling by a board that should have known better and done more .

I can tell you this “the HRC knew what Pentland where up to , said and did nothing” .

[Kiltedviking]

It must be the Boris effect ,the disappearing Politicians and the powerful. Over ninety people got it touch ,but not one of the Elected elite . Is it wrong to point out failures in a flawed system ,is it wrong to point out when those I trusted to run that system mis-use their position to cheat or abuse that system. With is it if a pensioner picks up a bottle of milk and forgets to pay of it ,they call the police . That pensioner is charged and ends up in court . When those in the seats of power and position commit Fraud, Theft , Embezzlement and Forgery nothing is done . It’s worse than that ,those in the position rally round to make sure none are accountable or charged . It’s the missing in action gambit , and politicians are the last to answer and first in the lifeboat. Go’s to show we’ve been voting for the wrong people as it was not a “ I want to help others” it was “ I want to help myself “. Election vote they needed and got. So it now looks like all the awards and medals the politicians got, where not for the good things they have done but more like what they never got caught doing wrong.