PoliticsEnglish village votes to leave UK in protest against asylum center plan
Residents of Piddington in Oxfordshire voted 285 to 26 to symbolically leave the United Kingdom, protesting plans to open an asylum center for about 1,300 people at a former military site. Turnout was 92%, but the September 15 referendum has no legal force.
English village votes to leave UK in protest against asylum center plan