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English village votes to 'secede' from UK over asylum centre plan

Residents of Piddington, an Oxfordshire village, have voted for symbolic independence from the UK in protest against plans to house more than 1,000 migrants at a nearby former military base.

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00:00Is everyone in the back? Good to see you!
00:06Can you actually see if you can put the bottom left bit of it into the...
00:11That's it, round there, just pretend you're drilling in that bit there.
00:18More in the middle coming over, yeah, just come forward.
00:20We're looking this way.
00:22If you can see us, we can see you, that's right.
00:23The gentleman behind the post, yes.
00:26If you want to just move around so we can see you, that's great, thank you.
00:28Cheers!
00:30One more if you don't mind.
00:32Once again, one, two, three...
00:49We have given an absolute message,
00:53not just to the region,
00:56not just to the country,
00:57but to the world.
00:59And Pennington is not just doing it for itself.
01:01What I've learned in this journey
01:03is that there are many, many people across this country
01:07who are hugely frustrated,
01:09angry with the behaviour
01:11of government
01:12and democracy.
01:20We are about to get you over there,
01:21Thank you very much,
01:21to be careful,
01:21and we can see you...
01:22So we've picked up your question...
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