It was certainly a desperate, if eye-catching, way to publicise their fight against plans to house 1,250 asylum seekers in their village.
And Tuesday is decision day for the 350 or so residents of Piddington, as the Oxfordshire villagers cast their vote in a ‘referendum’ on leaving the UK.
The ballot is the latest stage in the community’s fight to stop a former Ministry of Defence site on the edge of the village being repurposed as a hub for undocumented male immigrants for up to ten years.
It comes after 133 women in the village – who would be outnumbered nearly ten to
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