The other day the people of the small Oxfordshire village of Piddington voted to leave Great Britain. Of course, they have no intention of doing any such thing: this was an attempt to demonstrate locals’ anger at the proposal to house over a thousand illegal immigrants at a nearby disused military base.
But what if a few more towns and villages were to follow suit? After all it is difficult to see why decent people would want to be part of a debt-ridden, crime-ridden, economically-stagnant, fascist dystopia whose leaders would much rather the said decent people were dead. What if such a movement snowballed and ended up with swathes of the country voting for what might be called Brexit2? They might join forces. They might have a convention. Sonorous phrases like “When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another…” might get an outing in England’s green and pleasant land. They might even make a stab at self-government.
Of course that would cut no ice with Britain’s rulers who believe in the divine right of the communist election-rigger. Any attempt by the secessionists to actually leave would be ruthlessly crushed. The only real question would be if the British (anti-British?) state would have the wherewithal to do it. If they did not, who knows? maybe we would all be applying for a passport to Piddington.
I assume you’re riffing on a passport to Pimlico.
Forget Pimlico!
Check out the Conch Republic.
To quote Passport to Pimlico: “We always were English, and we’ll always be English, and it’s just because we are English that we’re sticking up for our rights to be Burgundians!”
Great movie. I highly recommend.
Lest we forget, Piddington voted solidly LibDem in 2024, electing a candidate who spoke out strongly about making that part of the world ‘a haven’ for asylum-seekers and migrants. Persons more cynical than I might observe that they’re getting exactly what they voted for, up-close and personal.
Myself, I think the fate of the hapless burghers of Piddington will be, in the long run, salutary, even if it’s unfortunate for them. The Government cannot back down now, else they will never be able to house a single migrant anywhere else. And a year or two of Piddington overrun by thousands of alien young men may be enough of an example that it will give others pause. As I’ve observed here before, the policy of mass immigration will never be changed until the powers that be (and their parents and grandparents and aunties and children) have to deal directly and in-person with the consequences. Sorry that Piddington has to be made the example, but after all – they asked for it.
llater,
llamas
llamas – the constituency that the village is in voted Lib Dem, I do not know how the village itself voted. The village is a very small part of the constituency.
As for the invasion (which has been going on for many decades now) – hopefully no one will be blaming the behaviour of the invaders, or their children or children’s-children (who will NOT assimilate – after several generations that is now clear) on “poverty”.
Being poor does not make people criminal – and being wealthy does not stop a hostile group being hostile.
NickM
What would the Conch Republic do if, for example, a lot of Haitians turned up?
It could happen – the place has a sea coast, and migrant boats could turn up, with lots of armed migrants.
Ha! Ever been to Key West? Rich smug libs fighting for the rights of victims while also fighting to keep those victims from sullying their pretty enclave.
Key West transports boat aliens out faster than Martha’s Vineyard does.
In the constituency the Lib Dems won with 38.7% vote on a 67% turnout. So effectively a quarter of the constituency voted Lib Dem. You may think that means they ‘voted solidly LibDem’, I would suggest that is a generous definition of ‘solidly’.
If such voting means the whole constituency deserves to suffer now, that justifies my increasing belief that democracy is a form of collective punishment.
@ Martin – here’s the 2024 election return for Bicester and Woodstock, the constituency which includes Piddington
Party. Candidate Votes Vote Share
Liberal Democrat Calum Miller 19,419 38.7%
Conservative Rupert Harrison 14,461 28.8%
I’ll let readers decide whether that is a “solid” win or not.
As to whether democracy is “a form of collective punishment”, we may largely agree on that. It is, after all, merely a civilized expression of mob rule, and for that reason, democratically-controlled processes should have as little control over the lives of individuals as it is possible to achieve without descending into anarchy.
llater,
llamas
Paul Markss wrote:
“What would the Conch Republic do if, for example, a lot of Haitians turned up?
It could happen – the place has a sea coast, and migrant boats could turn up, with lots of armed migrants.”
Well, the question is easily answered – for example, see Ceuta, a pleasant tourist spot with a sea coast, but in this instance, invaded by land. You’ve only to watch some of the video coming from there to see the result. The “Conch Republic” would be no different.
llater,
llamas
Piddington voted solidly LibDem in 2024, electing a candidate who spoke out strongly about making that part of the world ‘a haven’ for asylum-seekers and migrants
I’m shocked that people voting for something and actually achieving that something being implemented has got to be a first in a very long time.
Be careful what you wish for applies in spades here.
The reason I brought up The (very short lived) Conch Republic was that it was, essentially, a publicity stunt. And it worked. The checks on the roads to Key West were ludicrous and very awkward for locals and tourists alike (tourism is a massive part of the KW economy – I know, I was there nearly 20 years ago and it is/was brilliant). Fortunately, the State of Florida realised how unreasonable they were being and backed down rapidly. It did though give KW a new motto, “We Seceded Where Others Failed”. Which is very true because they had their entirely reasonable demands met in short order without a shot being fired very unlike a rather better known secession in US history…
OK, this was the score for immigrants in FL back then. If a migrant from Cuba got onto the beach by their own enterprise then they were welcome. If they were intercepted at any point before that – on the open sea or even wading ankle-deep they were deported. From my experience of Florida (I have been a few times) a lot of Americans of Cuban heritage are very American. Especially ones who travelled 90 miles of open sea (with sharks) off their own bat. This is very different from our Channel boat-people who, dare I say it?, are being essentially trafficked in something that looks quite a bit like the slave trade. Of course our Lords and Masters don’t object. It means they can have a Somalian drudge for pennies. Of course our ethnic criminal gangs such as the assorted Pakia (c.f. The Murphia and of course the Mafia for etymology). The grooming gangs are very much clan/extended family organised crime with many illegal enterprises going. The sexual abuse is just part of it. I suspect largely as a payment in kind to their foot soldiers.
Wasn’t it H.L. Mencken who defined democracy as the theory that “the people know what they want and deserve to be given it good and hard”?
I live in Pimlico, as it happens. I wonder how many residents have seen that late 1940s classic of British film.
bobby b – yes – till there are too many migrants and they are well armed.
llamas – yes, it is grim indeed.
NickM – the government of Florida is indeed in good hands, for now, and the elected part of the Federal Government is also pro American (not the unelected part of the government – the Federal bureaucracy is made up of leftists who are viciously anti American – the “Deep State”), but how long will this be so?
In January a leftist will be Speaker of the House of Representatives – not a leftist who just has horribly mistaken ideas, such as Nancy Pelosi, but, rather, a leftist with a deep, ethnic, hatred of the United States – and to rising generation of Democrats even Hakeem Jeffries is “too moderate”.
One can not live in peace with such people – for they will not allow it.
Conflict is inevitable.
In the Commentary section, to the left, there is a Pimlico Journal. Anyone want to risk it?
Johnathan Peace – I do not know how many people now are familiar with the film.
The central complaint of the “New Left” was that old left (for example the Atlee Government) had just made the state bigger – without attacking “capitalist society” itself, which they (correctly) argued was the foundation of the “capitalist” economy.
Since the 1960s (these ideas are far older – but they did not become mainstream till the 1960s) they left has worked to “correct” this “mistake” – by destroying Western culture (including in Britain) everything from the family (dislike of the family is as old as Plato and was strongly present in the Bloomsbury Set, the Fabians, and the Cambridge Apostles Club – but it is only since the 1960s that it had become mainstream – with government and corporate policy dedicated to destroying the traditional family) to films.
“Passport to Pimlico”, if it became part of “mainstream” conversation, would be denounced as “racist” (where, in the film, are all the vast number of black and brown people – which we are told, have always lived here), “sexist” (women shown as dressing differently to men – and having a different role), “homophobic”, “transphobic” (no “Representation”), and-so-on.
“Does he” (a Conservative Shadow Minister) “accept some of the responsibility for the economic legacy of Liz Truss”.
That was not from the BBC or Mr Putin’s “RT” – it was a line I have just heard from GB News.
The economy legacy of “Liz Truss” (who was not allowed to do anything) – not “the economic legacy of 400 Billion Pounds of spending on insane Covid policies – and the effects of the lockdowns”.
The level of brainwashing (and the word “brainwashing” is fully justified) in this country is astonishing.
Forget “Passport to Pimlico” – the film that sums up modern Britain is “The Ipcress File” – accept that in modern Britain the brainwashing of Michael Caine’s character works – he shoots Colonel Ross and the Bad Guys win.
After all – the front page of “conservative” newspapers do such things as denounce “illegal knives” (forget firearms – having a knife is a “crime” here), and most British people have no idea that most hospitals were charitable before the creation of the National Health Service (the 1948 copy of the Soviet system set up 20 years before) and think the poor were not treated in hospitals.