THENATIONALPULSE (Pulse Wires) - English Village Organizing Vote to Declare Independence Over Massive Migrant Camp.
Residents of Piddington in Oxfordshire, England, are set to hold a referendum on seceding from the United Kingdom in response to government plans to transplant over 1,200 asylum seekers to a nearby camp.
Residents of Piddington in Oxfordshire, England, are set to hold a referendum on seceding from the United Kingdom in response to government plans to transplant over 1,200 asylum seekers to a nearby camp. PULSE POINTS WHAT HAPPENED: The village of Piddington in Oxfordshire, England, plans to hold a referendum on declaring independence from the United Kingdom, protesting the Home Office’s decision to house over 1,200 asylum seekers at a nearby former army barracks. DETAIL: The Home Office, roughly equivalent to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, intends to convert the nearby Bicester Garrison into a camp for asylum seekers, part of a broader strategy to cease using hotels for this purpose. The village’s decision to hold a…Open