A Bute of a complaint

BUTE, the beautiful, peaceful Scottish isle only 33 miles from Glasgow has become the new home for some lucky Syrian refugees. But this well-intentioned scheme has backfired badly as two Syrian families there are now complaining it is “full of old people waiting to die” (as opposed to their homeland which is full of people living in fear of dying).

One of them moaned he had expected to go to Manchester or London, adding he feels “humiliated” living in Scotland.

Recipients of charitable impulses are seldom grateful for the truth is that nobody wants to see themselves as such. That is why refugees should be, where possible, helped in their own country because when the war is over Syrians will naturally want to be in Syria to rebuild it.

The ingratitude of these families should remind all those pious do-gooders who say they are opening their homes to refugees that this will be counterproductive in the long run.