English referendum to join the USA

[Halifax Tar]

I stumbled across this curious little story and video.

Tiny English village votes to leave the U.K. and join USA

Support local journalism - save The Winnipeg Sun as a Preferred Source. A small English village, Piddington, voted in favour of a symbolic protest against a government plan to house

www.winnipegsun.com

 

[Oldgateboatdriver]

Don't they realize they will have to put a fence around their village, otherwise all the Mexicans and other Central/South Americans will enter the US there.

 

[Halifax Tar]

Don't they realize they will have to put a fence around their village, otherwise all the Mexicans and other Central/South Americans will enter the US there.

Kind of the topic family that started the whole movement...

 

[dapaterson]

Don't they realize they will have to put a fence around their village, otherwise all the Mexicans and other Central/South Americans will enter the US there.

The UK has ancient experience with trying to use a wall to keep the undesirables out. Just ask Hadrian.

 

[JLB50]

I stumbled across this curious little story and video.

Tiny English village votes to leave the U.K. and join USA

Support local journalism - save The Winnipeg Sun as a Preferred Source. A small English village, Piddington, voted in favour of a symbolic protest against a government plan to house

www.winnipegsun.com

What next? Passport to Pimlico? The Mouse That Roared? I’d almost think that Ealing Studios had been resurrected.

 

[The Bread Guy]

The UK has ancient experience with trying to use a wall to keep the undesirables out. Just ask Hadrian.

#MakeBrittaniaGreatAgain #ReddeBritanniaeMagnitudinemPristinam

 

[Blackadder1916]

Piddington? Ahh, I remember it because it sounded like a place where you went to have a piss. Incredibly, the CAF almost had a base there. Well, not really. Near forty years ago, following the 1987 Defence White Paper, one of the projects we looked at that fell under ALMS (ACE Logistics and Medical Support) was a contingency hospital to be warehoused in the UK. The USAF already had a 500 bed contingency hospital at RAF Bicester (just a few miles NW of this site) and we visited it as a brief stop-over during one of our trips to Germany for the Lahr hospital construction project. While there, we were shown a few possible sites that could meet the need and that were excess to MOD's requirements, including a couple of buildings at the Piddington Depot. All those pie in the sky plans were binned when we won the Cold War.

The Piddington Depot is circled Green, the village in Red. The Yellow, that's HM Prison Bullington (back in the late 80s, before the prison was built, that space was also part of MOD Bicester).

 

[Blackadder1916]

If at first you don't succeed, try again - 22 years later.

This isn't the first time that the UK government wanted to house asylum seekers at that site.

(from 12 Mar 2004)

A hostile welcome

The building of accommodation centres for asylum seekers is being stymied by planning red tape and local protests.

www.propertyweek.com

Not to think that they only objected to asylum seekers, but they didn't particularly want Gypsies or Travelers parking in the neighbourhood.

Plans for travellers site near prison is refused by council

PLANS to create a caravan site for travellers which received 81 objections - including from the governor of a jail - have been refused.

www.oxfordmail.co.uk

. . . The Mouse That Roared? I’d almost think that Ealing Studios had been resurrected.

But now, anybody with access to AI (which is just about everybody) can now put out sophisticated campaign material.
"...Produced by Piddington, Oxfordshire- ‘The Village That Roared’..."

 

[Halifax Tar]

Not to think that they only objected to asylum seekers, but they didn't particularly want Gypsies or Travelers parking in the neighbourhood.

No one wants pikeys in their neighborhood.