A quintessentially English village earmarked to host 1,250 asylum seekers at a nearby military base is sending a delegation to Piddington this week for a council of war to discuss holding their own independence referendum.
Barnham in Suffolk is considering copying the defiant Oxfordshire village’s high-profile in/out vote amid fury at the scheme, which would more than double the local population.
Last week’s vote in Piddington over Home Office plans for MoD Bicester saw 90 per cent of locals opt to secede from the UK.
Now the residents of Barnham are eyeing up a similar stunt that, while symbolic and not legally binding, will focus
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