Piddington parts?

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.