‘We will not stop. We will not accept it.’
Those were the defiant words of Tim McNally, chairman of Piddington Parish Council, who accused the Government on Friday of ‘deceit, lies and manipulation’ after Housing Secretary Angela Rayner approved planning permission for an ‘asylum accommodation camp’ next to the local playing field.
Two months ago, residents of the Oxfordshire village made international headlines after voting in a symbolic referendum – by 285 to 26 – to declare ‘independence’ from the UK, such was their anger over the plans announced in June.
But the protest vote fell on deaf ears in Westminster.
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