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Syrian refugees settled on the remote Scottish island of Bute complain they are now depressed
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3706625/Syrian-refugees-settled-remote-Scottish-island-complain-depressed-area-old-people-people-come-die.html ^ | By Maureen Sugden

Posted on 07/26/2016 5:42:56 PM PDT by Eurotwit

It was a scheme designed to offer Syrian refugees a new life in Scotland, away from the horrors of their war-ravaged homeland.

But some of the first to be given sanctuary in Rothesay eight months ago have spoken of their unhappiness on Bute, saying it is ‘full of old people’ and a place ‘where people come to die’.

Argyll and Bute Council was among 16 Scottish local authorities to sign up for the initiative, with the first 100 Syrian refugees flown to the UK and on to Scotland in November last year. But Abd, who had been making trips to Glasgow to find work, said: ‘I didn’t expect to come to this island. We thought we were going to London or Manchester. But whenever we say anything about moving off the island, we are told “We had to pay a lot of money to bring you here”. ‘I feel like it’s an obligatory residence. I feel humiliated. I didn’t come here for anyone to control me.

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TOPICS: Syria; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: bute; depressed; hijrah; scotland; syrianscotland; tough
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Comment #1 Removed by Moderator

To: Eurotwit

Go home then...


2 posted on 07/26/2016 5:43:43 PM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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To: Eurotwit

Just one bottle? What was he thinkin’?


3 posted on 07/26/2016 5:44:17 PM PDT by Paladin2 (auto spelchk? BWAhaha2haaa.....I aint't likely fixin' nuttin'. Blame it on the Bossa Nova...)
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To: 2banana

I was going to say the same thing, go home if you don’t like Scotland.


4 posted on 07/26/2016 5:44:22 PM PDT by rdl6989
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To: Eurotwit

They got no money, and there are very few teenage girls.


5 posted on 07/26/2016 5:44:33 PM PDT by Steely Tom (Vote GOP: A Slower Handbasket)
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To: Eurotwit

STFU AND GO HOME....


6 posted on 07/26/2016 5:44:37 PM PDT by Doogle (( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: Eurotwit
I feel humiliated.

Good. So go home.

7 posted on 07/26/2016 5:46:20 PM PDT by ladyjane
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To: Paladin2

Waste of Scotch.


8 posted on 07/26/2016 5:46:43 PM PDT by Scrambler Bob (As always, /s is implicitly assumed. Unless explicitly labled /not s. Saves keystrokes.)
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To: Eurotwit

My bombie lies over the ocean, my bombie lies over the sea...


9 posted on 07/26/2016 5:47:35 PM PDT by Molon Labbie
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To: Scrambler Bob

Good Point. Scotland has no White Lightning?


10 posted on 07/26/2016 5:48:23 PM PDT by Paladin2 (auto spelchk? BWAhaha2haaa.....I aint't likely fixin' nuttin'. Blame it on the Bossa Nova...)
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To: Eurotwit

We could loose the one zer0 brings in to Kodiak island.

Feed the Bears.


12 posted on 07/26/2016 5:50:06 PM PDT by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: Eurotwit

This is the stupidest thing we can be doing with these people.

They need to go back to their familiar homeland and fight for it.


13 posted on 07/26/2016 5:50:16 PM PDT by headstamp 2 (Fear is the mind killer.)
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To: Eurotwit

Sounds like the place they should send all refugees. If an island that the locals call “home” isn’t good enough, then perhaps, they’re not really refugees fleeing war. Even a liberal would understand that one (conservatives figured it out when it was athletic military-age men only, without families).


14 posted on 07/26/2016 5:50:41 PM PDT by Pollster1 (Somebody who agrees with me 80% of the time is a friend and ally, not a 20% traitor. - Ronald Reagan)
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To: Steely Tom

...They got no money, and there are very few teenage girls...

And few eligible 9 year olds.


15 posted on 07/26/2016 5:50:49 PM PDT by Sasparilla (Hillary for Prison 2016)
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To: Steely Tom

...They got no money, and there are very few teenage girls...

And few eligible 9 year olds.


16 posted on 07/26/2016 5:50:52 PM PDT by Sasparilla (Hillary for Prison 2016)
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To: Eurotwit

Make their lives as miserable as possible then ship them back to Syria with such horror stories that will make the ones in Syria prefer to remain in the war zone.


17 posted on 07/26/2016 5:51:04 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Socialism is always just one or a thousand or a million more murders away from utopia.)
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To: Eurotwit

‘where people come to die’

So die already. By yourself.


18 posted on 07/26/2016 5:51:34 PM PDT by disndat
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To: Eurotwit

> I feel like it’s an obligatory residence

Everyone else feels the same about you, but they don’t get a choice.

> We thought we were going to London or Manchester

Sure, the top priority has to be entertaining the muslims in exciting muslim cities. Sending them to boring places full of infidels is inhumane and racist, worse than a civil war.


19 posted on 07/26/2016 5:51:55 PM PDT by fluorescence
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To: Eurotwit

To steal a line from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,

“He’ll feel better after he’s slashed a few throats!”


20 posted on 07/26/2016 5:52:34 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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