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

https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/uk-news/tiny-village-votes-independence-uk-34623788

18•Danhale93•2h ago

Comments

rapsey•43m ago

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.

hagbard_c•31m ago

This was voted down but it is to the point, NIMBYism is more the rule than the exception when it comes to this subject.

pjc50•26m ago

This is more likely going to be a situation where they were always xenophobic.

There's a rather uncomfortable interview with a local resident (of many years) who is Australian with a Jamaican husband, saying "well great now I know all my neighbours hate foreigners".

account42•11m ago

It's not xenophobia to not want foreigners to outnumber you 4 to 1 in your hometown.

pjc50•5m ago

Not so much "in" as "next to"; https://maps.app.goo.gl/ERuytwVias2Lmfof9 - it's the area above and to the right of the prison, HMP Bullington.

philipallstar•10m ago

Thinking that not liking over 1000 men moving in next to a small village is purely "hatred of foreigners" is mind-blowingly race-brained.

alwaysmrno•20m ago

Everyone want wolves around until they start hanging around your backyard

drfuchs•39m ago

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

tobylane•38m ago

> 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•37m ago

> A tiny village has voted overwhelmingly to become an independent state in a symbolic "referendum".

And the mice voted to bell the cat.

schnitzelstoat•34m ago

> 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

pjc50•28m ago

Previous approaches of distributing them across low-rent hotels and bnb accommodation have recently suffered arson attacks. This isn't the first time a disused military base has been used for this kind of purpose, and ultimately they have to go somewhere; wherever the government puts them is going to object.

I'm not even 100% clear whether they're allowed off the site!

The asylum system leaves people in an extremely unpleasant limbo for a long time while it makes decisions, based purely on the false belief that they're uniquely likely to be criminals.

philipallstar•12m ago

> A spokesman for the Home Office said: "The Government is closing every asylum hotel, saving taxpayers over £1 billion on asylum support since the election.

This is why the hotels and bnbs were a bad idea.

pjc50•10m ago

.. and replacing them with what, exactly?

philipallstar•7m ago

With nothing. Why does the UK have giant numbers of asylum seekers, and why wasn't any of the EU countries they travelled through to get there good enough? It's the hardest to reach country in Western Europe.

EDIT: other than RoI.

accountrequired•24m ago

garrison the barracks with asylum seekers!?

pjc50•23m ago

Disused barracks; shortage of other places; hotel accommodation has recently been subject to racially motivated arson attacks.

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