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That's nice of them to show me what village i am not going to visit. Glad moronic racists are happy to show themselves on the map
Not even to take a piddle on piddlington?
I think this could be a thing. Wouldn’t want the new housing for migrants to smell like piss, after all. Gotta put our best foot forward….
Wait until Pissborough decides to secede.
For that, I might license my food truck name to some peeps over there.
(I’m gonna name it “all due respect”. Well sell asparagus, radishes, beer. Anything that can make your piss extra stanky. We’ll be located across from Trump’s grave.)
Nothing racist about opposing 1000+ migrants being suddenly moved into your area which previously had 300-400 people. Doesn't matter where they're from - that's going to completely change the way of life.
I remember when people were happily housing Ukrainian migrants after Russia first attacked. The government even paid out grants to help people do it. It does 100% matter where they are from. It seems that it's a lot more difficult to welcome people into the country if they aren't the same colour as you.
Or maybe it is easier to integrate ukrainians than deeply rural people escaping from wars caused by Europeans and US.
Deeply rural people? What does that mean? A bunch of Iowan farmers moved to the UK?
So... everything outside of Europe is "rural" now?
You know that the flag of Ukraine depicts a wheat field under a blue sky, right? And that it's known as "Europe's bread basket"?
Doesn't get much more rural than that 😄
Honestly I think it's deliberate, at that point the problem isn't who is being moved in it's that there's no way the existing infrastructure and services can support the population suddenly quadrupling. Easy way to manufacture a small crisis to drum up anti-immigration fervor.
If this is the piddington I think it is, they're not that far from the outskirts of Bicester (pronounced bister) which has had an almost nonstop expansion since 2013 and is home to one of the most hyped up nothingburger shopping "villages" I've ever seen which means constant tourists in the area in a much more disruptive way. Also turns out this migrant housing place is going to be in Bicester itself so I can't even comprehend the self-importance required to try to secede like this...
You British people.. Always cheating at Scrabble!
Eddie Izzard even hilariously admits it!