There's something dark and tragic about Piddington's polite rebellion against a system that cares not one iota about their well-being.
They tried to express that women and girls won't feel safe, but they didn't want to be racist, so they just said all men are the problem, scuttling their own argument.
Then they tried their cutesy Count Binhead referendum to performatively become independent, and the government said ''Nice, we're housing them anyway,''
Their latest scheme, in recognition of their true status, is to pull the old NIMBY trick of pulling a rare newt or bat out of the hat whose habitat must be protected.
It always appeals to the moral core of a regime that has none, at least not if you're a native.
The 'hey, wait, we're the good guys' then the nod 'we know', and the axe drops anyway.