{"id":803199,"date":"2026-10-15T08:26:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T08:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/803199\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T08:26:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T08:26:18","slug":"some-parts-of-the-united-kingdom-want-to-break-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/803199\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Parts of the United Kingdom Want to Break Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/get.globalpost.com\/upgrade\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#13;<br \/>\n        <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Upgrade and listen to live audio transcription<\/p>\n<p>Already a premium subscriber? <a href=\"#gp-paywall-box\">Login below<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some Parts of the United Kingdom Want to Break Up<br \/>\nUNITED KINGDOM<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12508\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/United-Kingdom.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1800\" height=\"1200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The English village of Piddington in Oxfordshire \u2013 home to 358 people \u2013 has no stores, post office or even a pub. So when the British government recently announced a plan to house more than 1,000 adult male migrants at a former military base nearby, many villagers were outraged, fearing they would be overwhelmed.<\/p>\n<p>They <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/09\/16\/uk\/piddington-uk-secession-vote-scli-intl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">decided<\/a> to leave the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[It] could turn our village upside down,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/09\/16\/uk\/piddington-uk-secession-vote-scli-intl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> Tim McNally, chair of the Piddington parish council, referring to the housing plan which inspired a recent symbolic referendum to secede from the UK that passed, 285-26.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[It was] an example of democracy in operation,\u201d he added, referring to the referendum.<\/p>\n<p>The little village, which is now occupying itself with creating a national flag, a national animal and a national sport, was only the latest entity to threaten the unity of the United Kingdom&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>        Log in or start your free trial<\/p>\n<p>This month only, try GlobalPost completely free for 14 days. No credit card required. Get our full daily newsletter every weekday morning, plus unlimited access to our web archives.<\/p>\n<p>        <a class=\"upgrade-btn\" href=\"https:\/\/get.globalpost.com\/free?utm_source=globalpost&amp;utm_medium=paywall&amp;utm_campaign=free14_oct2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#13;<br \/>\n            Start a 14-Day Trial        <\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n            Are you a Premium subscriber? Enter your email address below to login and continuing reading.&#13;<br \/>\n            &#13;<br \/>\n            Email&#13;<br \/>\n            &#13;<br \/>\n            &#13;<br \/>\n            Login&#13;\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Upgrade and listen to live audio transcription Already a premium subscriber? Login below Some Parts of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":803200,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-803199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=803199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/803200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}