Tiny village votes for 'independence' from UK amid asylum seeker row

rapsey

Much like the residents of Martha's Vinyard, I am sure all have been very progressive, until it was time to have migrants in their back yards.

drfuchs

See the 1949 Ealing Studio film “Passport to Pimlico” for a take on how it’s going to work out.

tobylane

> The Domesday Book records that by 1086 Judith, Countess of Huntingdon, a niece of William I of England held the manor [of Piddington]. It's been going on for some time now. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piddington%2C_Oxfordshire

delichon

> A tiny village has voted overwhelmingly to become an independent state in a symbolic "referendum". And the mice voted to bell the cat.

schnitzelstoat

> Piddington — home to roughly 350 residents > the Government announced plans to house 1,256 male asylum seekers in a nearby former military base. It seems a bad idea to put them all in one place where they will outnumber the local residents almost 4-to-1

accountrequired

garrison the barracks with asylum seekers!?

readthenotes1

It's all fun and games until they're in your own backyard