On July 4, the Oxfordshire village of Piddington, population 370, voted 175-7 to hold a referendum on seceding from the United Kingdom. The Labour Party government in London plans on housing at least 1,250 single male “asylum-seekers” in a disused military camp at nearby Bicester.It sounds like a remake of the 1949 comedy Passport to Pimlico. In the movie, the delayed detonation of a World War II bomb exposes documents confirming that Pimlico, an inner-city London neighborhood near the Houses of Parliament, belongs to the dukes of Burgundy. The residents declare independence from British law, particularly postwar rationing and taxes. The state besieges them and forces their surrender. How we laughed.No one is laughing now in the self-declared Principality of Piddington. Nor in the other four rural locations that Labour has earmarked for housing more than 5,000 “asylum-seekers.” The party argues that stashing them in military camps at the taxpayer’s expense will be cheaper than the existing policy, stashing them in hotels at the taxpayer’s expense. The real aim is to place them out of the London media’s sight and mind. The migrants will be free to come and go while their appeals are processed.