A tiny English village has voted to leave the United Kingdom as a symbolic protest against government plans to house up to 1,200 asylum seekers on a nearby military base.

Others said the campaign had a darker side and stirred up fear of newcomers. Some backers of the Piddington referendum compared their fight against the asylum accommodation to the 1940 Battle of Britain against Nazi Germany.

Villager Herbert Owen, 76, said after voting on Tuesday that the independence referendum “isn’t just about Piddington,” adding: “It means everything our grandparents, our parents fought for. Today is the Battle of Britain.”

Comparing unauthorized immigration to an invasion has become increasingly common among politicians including Nigel Farage of Reform UK, and far-right groups that have been active in organizing and attending anti-immigrant protests.

What a bunch of assholes. From earlier in the article:

Residents of Piddington, which has a population of about 350…

That makes sense. Small town people need to have no say over issues pertaining to classes of people who are “different” from themselves. They’re too insulated and lack exposure to those who aren’t like them to properly recognize that they’re human beings in all the ways that they’d recognize if they knew someone from said class.

Brief story: decades ago, while I was on excellent drugs at a rave, my homophobia (thanks, Mom!) instantly disappeared when I realized the hilarious gay guy, in a group of us smoking cigarettes, was no different from me. “He just wants to take his drugs and have a good time on Saturday night,” I realized. He was no different from me!

Small town people need drugs and a good time with people unlike themselves.

  • phutatorius@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    6 hours ago

    Still havent understand

    I believe that, based on the rest of your comment.

    western society push infinite migrant into their country without any precaution

    They didn’t.

    Anyway if the gouvernement deem necessary to create flyers to tell migrant rape is bad

    Which was a stupid, patronising racist bit of imbecility.

    I wander how Lemmy would react if it were Britain going to another country and local were reacting like this.

    Post-Brexit, the Spanish took measures against the tax-dodging parasites in the Costa del Sol and it failed to cause an international incident.

    Nobody ever vote for having migrants in thoses enormous proportion

    You can look at party manifestos before you vote. All the parties have policies regarding immigration.

    And ppl still play dumb to explain why all of sudden anti migrant sentiment is on the rises and capitalize by the right.

    Hundreds of millions spent on propaganda and funding fascists, of course, had no impact on the sentiments of the easily brainwashed.

    And everywhere the right is on the rise.

    No, not everywhere. And when you look at who’s funding the right, it’s largely foreigners or people serving as fronts for foreign money (like crypto billionaires, more correctly called money launderers), but the same xenophobes who rant about immigrants don’t seem to mind rich foreign fascists interfering in our politics.