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Tiny village votes for 'independence' from UK amid asylum seeker row
- rapsey 2mo agoMuch like the residents of Martha's Vinyard, I am sure all have been very progressive, until it was time to have migrants in their back yards.
- hagbard_c 2mo agoThis was voted down but it is to the point, NIMBYism is more the rule than the exception when it comes to this subject.
- pjc50 2mo agoThis is more likely going to be a situation where they were always xenophobic. There's a rather uncomfortable interview with a local resident (of many years) who is Australian with a Jamaican husband, saying "well great now I know all my neighbours hate foreigners".
- account42 2mo agoIt's not xenophobia to not want foreigners to outnumber you 4 to 1 in your hometown.
- pjc50 2mo agoNot so much "in" as "next to"; https://maps.app.goo.gl/ERuytwVias2Lmfof9 https://maps.app.goo.gl/ERuytwVias2Lmfof9 - it's the area above and to the right of the prison, HMP Bullington.
- philipallstar 2mo agoThinking that not liking over 1000 men moving in next to a small village is purely "hatred of foreigners" is mind-blowingly race-brained.
- hn_throw2025 2mo ago…so xenophobic that they voted for both a Liberal Democrat MP and Mayor?
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- happytoexplain 2mo agoThis isn't a good example of xenophobia, assuming you are using the word for its colloquial implications (I.e. simple race-adjacent hatred, and not just the fear of a large group of new strangers of a culture or circumstance that is alien to your community).
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- mcphage 2mo ago> until it was time to have migrants in their back yards How did the migrants get to Martha's Vineyard?
- rapsey 2mo agohttps://www.politico.com/news/2022/09/16/migrants-marthas-vineyard-cape-cod-00057247 https://www.politico.com/news/2022/09/16/migrants-marthas-vi... They were of course removed from the community swiftly.
- happytoexplain 2mo agoYou're implying they should have been kept there? I'm not following. It looks like they were maliciously sent there without an agreement, and still were treated humanely and forwarded somewhere that agreed to take them...? You're criticizing this?
- rapsey 2mo agoAnd the border communities loved having them there and invited them? Everything I said was factual. The voters of those northern communities love supporting policies as long as they happen someplace else. A thing called luxury beliefs.
- mcphage 2mo agoFrom your link: > Although their travel to Massachusetts was facilitated by DeSantis, the migrants who arrived on Martha’s Vineyard on Wednesday came from Texas. The DeSantis administration paid an aviation company, Vertol Systems Company Inc., $615,000 to transport the migrants from San Antonio to the exclusive vacation enclave. So Florida spent $615,000 to pick up some people from Texas and dump them on an island in Massachusetts? ...and you imagine that this makes the people in Massachusetts look bad? Yeah. I don't know what to tell you, dude.
- rapsey 2mo agoNice straw man you have there.
- drfuchs 2mo agoSee the 1949 Ealing Studio film “Passport to Pimlico” for a take on how it’s going to work out.
- tobylane 2mo ago> The Domesday Book records that by 1086 Judith, Countess of Huntingdon, a niece of William I of England held the manor [of Piddington]. It's been going on for some time now. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piddington%2C_Oxfordshire https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piddington%2C_Oxfordshire
- delichon 2mo ago> A tiny village has voted overwhelmingly to become an independent state in a symbolic "referendum". And the mice voted to bell the cat.
- downrightmike 2mo agoBelling cats is actually really useful
- happytoexplain 2mo agoThe point is that the vote is futile, not that the enforcement of the vote wouldn't be beneficial.
- downrightmike 2mo agono
- schnitzelstoat 2mo ago> Piddington — home to roughly 350 residents > the Government announced plans to house 1,256 male asylum seekers in a nearby former military base. It seems a bad idea to put them all in one place where they will outnumber the local residents almost 4-to-1
- pjc50 2mo agoPrevious approaches of distributing them across low-rent hotels and bnb accommodation have recently suffered arson attacks. This isn't the first time a disused military base has been used for this kind of purpose, and ultimately they have to go somewhere; wherever the government puts them is going to object. I'm not even 100% clear whether they're allowed off the site! The asylum system leaves people in an extremely unpleasant limbo for a long time while it makes decisions, based purely on the false belief that they're uniquely likely to be criminals.
- philipallstar 2mo ago> A spokesman for the Home Office said: "The Government is closing every asylum hotel, saving taxpayers over £1 billion on asylum support since the election. This is why the hotels and bnbs were a bad idea.
- pjc50 2mo ago.. and replacing them with what, exactly?
- philipallstar 2mo agoWith nothing. Why does the UK have giant numbers of asylum seekers, and why wasn't any of the EU countries they travelled through to get there good enough? It's the hardest to reach country in Western Europe. EDIT: other than RoI.
- rapsey 2mo ago
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- accountrequired 2mo agogarrison the barracks with asylum seekers!?
- pjc50 2mo agoDisused barracks; shortage of other places; hotel accommodation has recently been subject to racially motivated arson attacks.
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- readthenotes1 2mo agoIt's all fun and games until they're in your own backyard