2026-09-20 06:18 UTC
Replies (12)
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@tony@toot.hoyle.me.uk 2026-09-20 11:17
@2legged@mastodon.ie Don't let them outside the village without valid (ie. internationally recognised) pidlington passports.
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@benh@mastodon.scot 2026-09-20 06:59
@2legged@mastodon.ie They made a film about this didn't they https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passport_to_Pimlico
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@Sarahw@mastodon.green 2026-09-20 07:14
@2legged@mastodon.ie Did they not watch the end of the film? #PIDDINGTON
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@aoanla@hachyderm.io 2026-09-20 07:57
@2legged@mastodon.ie Yes, this was my first thought too (although I was thinking of it more as a skit we could play on them, and see how long it took for them to panic as we got some guys to start putting up fences and sat a police car on their main roads to do "border control").
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@michaelgraaf@kolektiva.social 2026-09-20 09:00
@2legged@mastodon.ie ...and allow Piddingtonians out only if they have work permits.
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@purpletwiglet@mastodonapp.uk 2026-09-20 09:42
@2legged@mastodon.ie I misread the name as piddlington #piddington
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@psymorama@mstdn.social 2026-09-20 09:50
@2legged@mastodon.ie the word ‘plucky’ is used far too many times in that article.
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@cyberspice@oldbytes.space 2026-09-20 09:53
@2legged@mastodon.ie We need to get people standing on all the roads out of the town checking passports and telling them there's no free movement...
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@etchedpixels@mastodon.social 2026-09-20 10:12
@2legged@mastodon.ie better to accept their request to cease to be UK citizens and then as they are now "illegal" put them in asylum accommodation and see how they like it
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@happypete@mstdn.social 2026-09-20 10:51
@2legged@mastodon.ie how would we protect the villagers who don’t want UDI?
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@stevel@hachyderm.io 2026-09-20 11:01
@2legged@mastodon.ie take them off the power grid until they negotiate a new electricity and gas deal with the currency reserve their parish council holds
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@iju@mastodon.social 2026-09-20 18:16
@2legged@mastodon.ie Personally I've always felt that countries that don't accept secession by regional majority should not call themselves democratic. (And countries that siege regions in revolt for reasons boiling down to spite aren't much better.) For this reason I've always felt a bit uneasy with rhetoric circling around stuff like Finland as part of [Sweden, Russian Empire, EU], American Confederation etc. If the choice of belonging is made by polity together, it's at best a tyranny of majority.