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.
If the immigrants were pushing for a second language, how is that removing the first language ?
Spanish was the 2nd language here in the U.S until Trump. Literally never negatively impacted my life in any way.
It just makes it so signs and food labels are in both languages.
It’s just making information available to everyone.
And that’s normal trajectory for immigration? So if UK accepts enough Indians (honestly don’t know which group is the most common), it would be perfectly fine to push for Indian as second official language of the country?
Yeah I don’t see why not .
If there was, for whatever reason, a high sustained influx of people who spoke a different language, sure. Why not make it a secondary.
As I said. It’s just so everyone has access to information in their preferred language. So they can understand it better.
I sure appreciate it when I travel to other countries and they have English added to signs or guides.