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Now, on the face of it, it might only be a symbolic vote, um, a symbolic referendum, but it shows people have had enough, and that they're willing to do something.

Residents of a small Oxfordshire village are voting in a symbolic referendum today as they continue their campaign against plans to accommodate 1,256 asylum seekers at a former military site nearby.

Now, according to the last consensus, which I think was 2021, Piddington has a population of 358 people.

Now, 358 people don't absorb 1,256 migrants.

They get absorbed by 1,256 migrants, [clears throat] and they know that.

People living in Piddington are being asked whether the village should become independent from the UK in a stunt designed to send a message to the government over its proposal for MOD Bicester.

Because of course, housing fighting-age military men in a barracks, in a military barracks will do wonders to get people's minds, um, you know, put people's minds at ease when it comes to who these fighting-age migrant men are, why they're here, why they're allowed to be here, and more than that, why they've been incentivized to be here.

Stick them in a military base, then they definitely won't think it's some kind of army.

The referendum comes after residents gathered near the site yesterday to meet MPs who have backed their campaign, including former Home Secretary and current Reform UK MP Suella Braverman and Reform UK's Sarah Pocjin.

Braverman, um, being an Israel firster, and Pocjin being the one that said she didn't think that digital ID was a problem.

So, you know, you know, they're not on our side, but that's fine.

Um, long-term resident Gina Perkin, whose family has lived in the village for five generations, said the referendum is intended to make their voices heard.

She said, "We're holding our referendum to just show that not just for us, but for this whole country, the system is broken and we're not being listened to." Well, well done for standing up, Gina, but [clears throat] the system's not broken because it isn't happening by failings, it isn't happening because of political incompetence or mistakes, um, by civil servants or whatever.

It's happening by design, and the system is actually set up for this to happen.

It's set up to facilitate this.

So in fact, the system isn't broken, the system's working perfectly.

It's just not working for the people of the country 'cause it's not meant to.

And of course, we've seen all this before.

Saw it in Germany when you had, you know, the manufactured civil war in Syria, which led to this mass influx of, of Syrian migrants across into Germany and the, the head of, of, of Germany at the time, um, Merkel, she, um, she opened the floodgates, didn't she? She went, "Come on in, mate." Not to my neighborhood, not to my gated, um, community, but to everyone else's, in you come.

And there were villages in, in Germany of similar number, you know, three to four to five hundred, and, um, and they were...

I was gonna say they were asked to, uh, accept, but they weren't.

They were told that they were accepting 1,000, 1,500, um, migrants.

Now, if you get a, a city of million people, couple of million people, and you introduce 1,500 migrants, it'll have an impact on a certain area maybe, depending if they're all concentrated in a particular area.

But other than that, the city still goes on being the city, right? You could do the same with a town.

You stick 1,500 people into a town of, say, 25, 30,000 people.