A Very Small Village Votes on Leaving a Very Large Country
Piddington is a tiny, remote village in Oxfordshire, England. According to Deutsche Welle, residents there staged a "referendum" — the quotation marks are the publisher's — on leaving the UK, objecting to plans for an asylum reception center at a disused military base nearby. The excerpt stops there: no turnout, no margin, no legal mechanism, and no word yet on what the government makes of it.
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You can't secede from the UK by parish poll, so the vote is better read as the loudest possible letter to whoever approves the site.
A protest is still a legitimate form of speech. Objecting to a reception center in your village is a real position, however odd the vehicle.
Then the only test that matters is whether anyone with power over the base plan is listening. On the evidence given, we simply don't know.