Leo Kearse: Piddington is a nice village in England about 10 miles northeast of Oxford. Like most nice, kind, middle-class people, they march against the “far-right” and voted Lib Dem, a left-wing party who want to welcome refugees.
Then the government announced plans to create an enormous migrant camp holding 1,256 asylum seekers on the edge of Piddington. Piddington's lefties realised they were going to have to deal with the consequences of their own opinions. They thought this camp would be somewhere else, next to some working-class people, as is usual. But no, it’s going to be next to them. So they’re now trying to get the migrants moved - but without looking anti migrant themselves.
The local branch of stand up to racism quickly changed its message. Instead of just saying “Refugees welcome”, they added “No to the Bicester asylum camp”. So if they’re welcome, where are they supposed to go?
Women of Piddington recorded a video begging women in Parliament to stop the camp. You've got to admire the optimism of appealing to politicians who do nothing while grooming gangs operate across working-class areas, except for telling the victims they should "shut up for the good of diversity".
Then Danny Tommo, a working-class patriot street leader whose men in black balaclavas brought Dover to a standstill last weekend, said he was going to attend the village to speak to locals. The prospect of working-class men in the village was more terrifying than the migrant camp for some women. Rachel from Piddington condemned the "far right" and their "fear and xenophobia". Well, if you don't have any fear of this migrant camp, why not let it be built? She also condemned other people in the village for their racism and bigotry - while also saying that they'd made her black husband feel welcome. For a bunch of racists, these villagers don't sound very racist. National newspapers, who'd completely ignored working-class people concerned about migrants in their area, suddenly found the space to run stories about middle-class women worried about camps in their area. Every woman who spoke to the media was keen to stress that they weren't opposed to the migrants coming to Britain - they just didn't think that near their house was a suitable location. Alice West, another Piddington woman, said “There’s published work on the prevalence of depression, hopelessness and suicidal ideation in large-scale, isolated places with limited services, as this would be.” She's just concerned about the migrants getting depressed, guys! Like all the women, she was keen to stress that this wasn't about the background of the men. Alice said, "If you added 1,256 males of any demographic to the end of our village, the risk to women would rise". Really? Because it used to be a military base with 2,500 personnel, mainly men. Nobody was worried about it then. For all that the women protest "it's not about the type of man, it's the numbers, we're too middle class to be racist", they all deliberately chose to live in a place that has one type of man. Piddington is 96% white. The people of Piddington (and their lawyers) have been scrambling to find anything they could get them off the hook for this migrant camp. They've even held a mock referendum whereby their village leaves the UK. But if they're in such a hurry to leave Britain, why don't they just let the migrant camp be built? Then they won't be in Britain anymore. They'll be in Somalia. They eventually found something that could stop the camp: Piddington's population of great crested newts, which are an endangered species (despite appearing in sufficient numbers to stop most vital infrastructure projects in Britain). What sort of country is Britain, where our obligation to international migrant law can only be overruled by our obligation to newts? We should be stopping all migrant camps because of another endangered species: British girls. I wish the people of Piddington, the people everywhere in Britain, would get over this anxiety, this hang-up of being called racist. Just let yourself be called racist. It doesn't mean anything. It's a trick. It's engineered social pressure designed to make you accept being conquered, having your land taken from you, having your children attacked.
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