Others said the campaign had a darker side and stirred up fear of newcomers. Some backers of the Piddington referendum compared their fight against the asylum accommodation to the 1940 Battle of Britain against Nazi Germany.
Villager Herbert Owen, 76, said after voting on Tuesday that the independence referendum “isn’t just about Piddington,” adding: “It means everything our grandparents, our parents fought for. Today is the Battle of Britain.”
Comparing unauthorized immigration to an invasion has become increasingly common among politicians including Nigel Farage of Reform UK, and far-right groups that have been active in organizing and attending anti-immigrant protests.
What a bunch of assholes. From earlier in the article:
Residents of Piddington, which has a population of about 350…
That makes sense. Small town people need to have no say over issues pertaining to classes of people who are “different” from themselves. They’re too insulated and lack exposure to those who aren’t like them to properly recognize that they’re human beings in all the ways that they’d recognize if they knew someone from said class.
Brief story: decades ago, while I was on excellent drugs at a rave, my homophobia (thanks, Mom!) instantly disappeared when I realized the hilarious gay guy, in a group of us smoking cigarettes, was no different from me. “He just wants to take his drugs and have a good time on Saturday night,” I realized. He was no different from me!
Small town people need drugs and a good time with people unlike themselves.
I mean, it’s a small village of 300-400 people. Why the fuck there. Everyone probably knows each other, there are alot of old people, probably nothing much to do there. The resistance is understandable, it’s like a government telling you someone random will be living in your family’s backyard
It’s more like the government telling you someone random will be living next door to your family’s house. You know, exactly like normal.
It’s not there, it’s in the nearest town, 6 miles away. There’s about 5 other larger villages and most of a town almost 100 times their population in between them.
Maybe some new genes would help everyone out.
Why are people so scared of anyone not like them?
I always love meeting people from different backgrounds than me.
Tell me your life. What’s it like where you are from. What’s different from here. What do you miss and what are you happy to leave behind.
What’s your cat’s name and will you invite me over for dinner. ?
What’s your cat’s name and will you invite me over for dinner. ?
No, I chose to live in a quiet village away from crowds of strangers, in a solitude. Don’t come here. This isn’t about race.
So you’re saying their ethnogroup or race is inferior and should be fixed with eugenics?
Genetic diversity is healthy.
Healthier for who? Let me ask you this - if countries like US and Germany didn’t saw such immigration, do you think AfD and MAGA would be winning? If immigration leads to right-wing governments and that is healthy, then MAGA is a natural, healthy response to what is happening. It’s of course idiotic, but so is your saying. It almost always leads to problems in society and rise of authoritarism, just like how nazis came to power.
What?
Are you a fake person cause you didn’t even read. That’s not what genetic diversity means.
Fyi. The US and the UK’s military actions are directly responsible for the mass exodus of civilians from their home countries.
They caused this.
I realize that neither I, nor you were asked if we agreed to fuck up their country for the better part of a century, but nevertheless, our country’s leaders used our taxes to go in and fuel dissent, corruption, civil wars, and gave both sides weapons.
All because they wanted to control a natural resource and keep other countries from becoming independent.
This is the end result.
People, who also didn’t have a say, getting displaced.
Running from living in hostile unsafe countries to western ones that look a hell of a lot safer.
Don’t blame them for what our governments caused.
Don’t blame them for trying to survive. Especially when it’s our fault they have to leave their home country.
Immigration directly contributes to entropy, therefore genetic diversity. But that’s not the argument. That’s not even what I care about. It’s about failure of integration which we see alot in my country, which ends up being our problem. For fucks sake, we had to fight to keep our language as the main language of the country because large group of immigrants started pushing for second official language.
EDIT: It might be interesting for you to know that the groups we do not want the most are of white people. Like, yes, stereotypically people of color can seem scarier, especially to rural folk, but my experience tells me it’s really not them you should fear.