We're sending Susan Aitken a leaving card. Click here to add your message
In Susan Aitken's decade as council leader, Glasgow has plunged deeper into crisis. We have 100-year wait times for social housing, and people choosing between heating, eating and paying rent. She has turned parts of our city into playgrounds for student accommodation developers, banks, hoteliers and Hollywood film crews, and left other areas with parks rotting away, overflowing bins and non-existent bus links.
Living Rent, trade unions and community groups have had to fight hard for every investment in our city. She refused to even speak to us until we confronted her at a conference and embarrassed her in front of her big business buddies.
So goodbye Susan and good riddance. We hope your successor will do better, and if they don't we are ready to take action together and hold them to account.
