{"id":13243,"date":"2026-01-08T12:05:26","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T12:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/im-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-uks-homeless\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T12:05:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T12:05:26","slug":"im-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-uks-homeless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/im-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-uks-homeless\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I&#8217;m not racist&#8217;: Salvation Army worker, 56, who was sacked for saying refugees should all be sent back &#8216;on a boat&#8217; says migrants ARE taking up houses for the UK&#8217;s homeless"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2026\/01\/07\/23\/105316621-0-image-m-84_1767829310595.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div xmlns:default=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">A Salvation Army worker who was sacked after saying migrants should be sent back home &#8216;on a f***ing boat&#8217; has broken his silence to insist he is not racist.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Mr Markie, 56, was sacked from his role at the Salvation Army&#8217;s Strathmore Lodge hostel which houses&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-15443351\/Im-not-racist-Salvation-Army-worker-sacked-refugees.html?ns_mchannel=rss&#038;ns_campaign=1490&#038;ito=1490\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Salvation Army worker who was sacked after saying migrants should be sent back&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1155,1220],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syria","category-1220"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}