Tom Smith

Piddington resident campaigning against the proposed asylum accommodation site at MOD Bicester Site A. Campaign updates, evidence and local news. Views my own.

[Tom Smith @PiddingtonTom]

Piddington: 350 residents.

Proposed asylum site: around 1,250 single adult men.

More than 3.5 times the population of our entire village, pursued through urgent Crown Development.

This is not proportionate.

Please sign and repost:

https://t.co/gytfvzg48Y

[PiddingtonRoarsNews @PiddingtonNews]

@gregsmith_uk mentions the Buckinghamshire villages on our Oxfordshire border also potentially affected by @andyburnham plans to house 1250 #asylum seekers.

👇 Greg Smiths question to Andy Burnham and response...

[Tom Smith @PiddingtonTom]

The evidence is stacking up against MOD Bicester Site A.

Electricity capacity is a major question, alongside sewage, drainage, roads, healthcare, policing, ecology and safeguarding.

If the Government is still establishing whether the site can support 1,250 people, why was it chosen in the first place?

@ukhomeoffice @DefenceHQ

#Piddington #MODBicester #SiteA #Oxfordshire

[Tom Smith @PiddingtonTom]

Thank you @ZiaYusufUK for coming to Piddington yesterday, listening to residents and taking our concerns to a national audience.

He immediately understood the sheer disproportionality of placing 1,250 single adult men beside a village of just 350 people.

Whatever your politics, showing up and listening matters.

[PiddingtonRoarsNews @PiddingtonNews]

The 1st Westminster politician to come to #Piddington to hear how our lives are being turned “upside down”.

@KemiBadenoch @EdwardJDavey please come and hear our concerns…🙏🏻🙏🏻

https://t.co/yOmlJk0teV

[Tom Smith @PiddingtonTom]

SATIRE, but the numbers are real.

Piddington: 350 residents.
Site A proposal: up to 1,250 single adult men.

Is this listening to communities, @andyburnham @annaturley @ShabanaMahmood @ukhomeoffice?

@ZiaYusufUK
@PiddingtonNews
#piddingtonroars

Sign: https://t.co/2AJej6Wg4Z

#Piddington

[Samantha PHILLIPS @Samanth90515052]

Thank you for coming to visit us. Piddington, The Village that Roared appreciates your presence and that you listened to us. Andy Burnham, we are still waiting! Who's coming next?
@andyburnham @KemiBadenoch @RupertLowe10 @realDonaldTrump @elonmusk @andywigmore

[Tom Smith @PiddingtonTom]

RED LISTED NIGHTINGALE BREEDING AT SITE A

A local wildlife recorder has monitored a nightingale singing and breeding at MOD Bicester Site A for the past three years.

Where are the Home Office’s seasonal ecological surveys before any decision is made?

#Piddington @andyburnham @annaturley @mtpennycook @ShabanaMahmood @chrisgpackham

[Tom Smith @PiddingtonTom]

You can also support The Village That Roared campaign. Funds will help provide the legal, planning and professional expertise needed to scrutinise and challenge these proposals.

https://t.co/kqwDfeiv01

Today it is our village. Tomorrow it could be yours.

#Piddington

[Tom Smith @PiddingtonTom]

Piddington has around 350 residents. The Government proposes accommodating around 1,250 single adult men beside our village.
I created this account because this is affecting my wife Lizzy, our children and families across Piddington. We need people to hear us.

[Tom Smith @PiddingtonTom]

Our official Parliamentary petition is live.

At 10,000 signatures, the Government must respond. At 100,000, Parliament will consider it for debate.

Please sign and share:

https://t.co/gytfvzg48Y

[Tom Smith @PiddingtonTom]

The Government is pursuing this through the urgent Crown Development process.

Residents are having to raise money for legal advice, planning professionals and independent experts simply to scrutinise what is being proposed.

[Tom Smith @PiddingtonTom]

Asking a tiny rural village of 350 people to absorb a site for around 1,250 people is extraordinary.

We are asking for fairness, genuine consultation and a meaningful voice in a decision that could fundamentally change our community.

[Tom Smith @PiddingtonTom]

I am not saying Piddington should accept nobody.

I am happy for our village to play its part and accept a fair and proportionate share, just as communities across the country should.

But this proposal is neither fair nor proportionate.

[Tom Smith @PiddingtonTom]

Piddington includes just 46 children.
The proposed site alone would have a population more than three and a half times the size of our entire village.
Just look at the numbers:
Piddington: 350
Proposed site: 1,250

[Tim McNally @PiddingtonRoars]

🌍 HOW A TINY OXFORDSHIRE VILLAGE ROARED — AND THE WORLD HEARD IT

It started with Piddington.

A village of only a few hundred people facing a proposal for asylum accommodation for up to 1,250 men at nearby MOD Bicester Site A.

The village decided it would not simply disappear quietly into a government planning process.

It roared.

What happened next was extraordinary.

🇬🇧 BBC. Sky News. The Times. The Telegraph. The Guardian. The Independent. The Sun. The i. GB News. Times Radio. Channel 5. LBC.

Then Piddington crossed the Atlantic.

🇺🇸 CBS News. CBS Mornings. The Wall Street Journal. Washington Examiner. Newsmax. Daily Caller. Sinclair’s National News Desk. Breitbart.

Then it travelled further.

🇳🇿 New Zealand radio.

🇬🇷 Greek national media.

And some enormous individual voices entered the conversation:

Elon Musk. John Cleese. Matt Goodwin. Nadhim Zahawi. Edwina Currie. Allison Pearson.

Eventually even the Prime Minister was being publicly questioned about Piddington.

A local planning dispute had become a national argument about proportionality, infrastructure, consultation, democracy and whether communities have a meaningful voice when Whitehall makes decisions for them.

Now councils and political parties are discussing legal challenges to the Government’s wider asylum-accommodation strategy.

Think about that.

One tiny Oxfordshire village.

One roar.

And a story that travelled around the world. 🌍

We never needed to be the biggest.

We just needed to refuse to be ignored.

🐻 PIDDINGTON — THE VILLAGE THAT ROARS.

#Piddington #PiddingtonRoars #TheVillageThatRoared #Oxfordshire #Bicester #Democracy #LocalGovernment #UKPolitics

[Tim McNally @PiddingtonRoars]

Piddington visits Wethersfield in Essex to see firsthand how the asylum camp has affected local people.

I was appalled. I had not realised just how badly this country is treating its own communities to facilitate these camps.

The people of Wethersfield deserve a bloody medal. 🇬🇧

@andyburnham Go there!
@elonmusk buy Great Britain!!

#Wethersfield #Piddington #Oxford #Banbury #Buckinghamshire #Oxfordshire #Aylesbury #MiltonKeynes #Warwick