By&nbspKamuran Samar&nbsp&&nbsp AFP

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16/09/2026 – 18:09 GMT+2

An English village of around 350 people has voted overwhelmingly to “secede” from the United Kingdom in a symbolic referendum held in protest against plans to house asylum seekers at a nearby former military site.

In Piddington, near Oxford, 285 of the 312 ballots counted backed the call for the village to seek self-determination. The referendum has no legal standing, but residents celebrated the result by putting up a sign declaring the area the “Principality of Piddington”.

The vote was organised by the parish council and was inspired partly by the 1949 British comedy…

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