Excellent news. Hold them to it: cut off all public services to the village, deny them free access to the NHS, set up complicated import/export rules for them, take their passports, and suspend their use of the Pound. Then let's see how important "small boats" are to them, hey?
The Oxfordshire village of Piddington has voted in favour of independence from the UK in a symbolic protest against plans to house male asylum seekers at a nearby former military base.