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.

  • blartcap_@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    2 天前

    That’s where youre’ totally wrong. immigrates tend to congregate in specific areas, often for their own normal reasons. They are not ‘evenly distributed’ across the country. Nor, should they be.

    So you’re refining your accusation to saying that people who looking down on this town for being excessively anti-immigrant are something like bumfuck rural types who don’t live anywhere near immigrants? You might have things backwards here.

    It’s a complex problem that everyone here is trying to reduce to moral issue, which tells me they have no clue what they are talking about and have never dealt with it. They just want to grandstand about it.

    How would it tell you that?

    But having a large number of immigrants dumped in your town/city has lots of problems and acknowledign and protesting that isn’t horrible and racist.

    This town didn’t hold a protest, did they.

    Do they have a special private fund? In USA over here, we just pass a special budget and drop millions into housing and helping immigrants, meanwhile when it comes to providing social services for own citizens, all the sudden the money isn’t available… my own state does this all the time and people are rightfully outraged.

    What state holds socialist policies for immigrants only and none for its citizens?

    There is plenty of data for that in the USA. I can’t speak to the UK. But if you allocate a 10 million for special immigration funding… and then cut school health/budgets… what would you call that?

    A right wing disinformation campaign.