‘I’m not racist’: Salvation Army worker, 56, who was sacked for saying refugees should all be sent back ‘on a boat’ says migrants ARE taking up houses for the UK’s homeless

A Salvation Army worker who was sacked after saying migrants should be sent back home ‘on a f***ing boat’ has broken his silence to insist he is not racist.

Charles Markie said he had been working on the homelessness frontline in Dundee for two decades finding accommodation for the vulnerable and those in desperate need of housing.

But he revealed his job had become more difficult in that time due to the large number of places being taken up in the poverty-stricken Scottish city by migrants.

Mr Markie, 56, was sacked from his role at the Salvation Army’s Strathmore Lodge hostel which houses…