Edwin Hayward
@edwinhayward.com
Author and commentator. Book: 'Slaying Brexit Unicorns'. Busy AI coding.
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Handy tools: https://www.superuseful.com/
Me: https://www.edwinhayward.com/
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Edwin Hayward
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· Dec 28
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If I was devising a set of announcements to elevate (but not satisfy) the hard right, alienate the middle ground and completely discourage your base, I couldn’t come up with a much better strategy than McSweeney and Number 10
November 17, 2025 at 10:49 AM
If I was devising a set of announcements to elevate (but not satisfy) the hard right, alienate the middle ground and completely discourage your base, I couldn’t come up with a much better strategy than McSweeney and Number 10
Next week, Labour will propose to harvest a kidney from asylum seekers.
("He has TWO, the greedy grasping so-and-so.")
("He has TWO, the greedy grasping so-and-so.")
November 17, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Next week, Labour will propose to harvest a kidney from asylum seekers.
("He has TWO, the greedy grasping so-and-so.")
("He has TWO, the greedy grasping so-and-so.")
It's incredible that a Labour MP can post a graph with a giant label calling out the problem without joining the dots. Takes a special kind of wilful blindness.
November 17, 2025 at 8:43 PM
It's incredible that a Labour MP can post a graph with a giant label calling out the problem without joining the dots. Takes a special kind of wilful blindness.
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This document is the product of a broken administration, motivated by cynicism, immune to human decency, with a weak-to-non-existent understanding of the policy area they wish to legislate in.
And that's it. Overall impressions are
- there's still a surprising lack of detail
- lots of new work for officials but unlikely to lead to much change on the ground
- refugees will still live here rest of their lives but will struggle even more than before to integrate
- there's still a surprising lack of detail
- lots of new work for officials but unlikely to lead to much change on the ground
- refugees will still live here rest of their lives but will struggle even more than before to integrate
November 17, 2025 at 6:54 PM
This document is the product of a broken administration, motivated by cynicism, immune to human decency, with a weak-to-non-existent understanding of the policy area they wish to legislate in.
Dog whistle attracts dog. Whistler furious.
Shabana Mahmood asks MPs to stop mentioning Tommy Robinson's name (in relation to his support for her policies) as "he doesn't even think I am English. I find that offensive."
November 17, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Dog whistle attracts dog. Whistler furious.
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Absolutely none of this makes sense. The experience of her refugee parents taught her to be anti-immigrant? The post-war order was built on the assumption of human niceness?
Katie Lam tries to explain to the Sunday Times how her grandparents experience under Nazism informs her view that the postwar institutions forged after the horrors of war, dictatorship & the holicaust won't now work in our times - because "they assume everyone would want to be nice to each other"
October 19, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Absolutely none of this makes sense. The experience of her refugee parents taught her to be anti-immigrant? The post-war order was built on the assumption of human niceness?
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The psychopathy on display from Mahmood and the Labour government - going from writing about dark forces stirring up anger over immigration in The Guardian this morning to doing this in the Commons this evening - is quite remarkable.
Mahmood is doing that evil thing of taking ONE very, very extreme example and presenting it as if it is indicative of the entire cohort of asylum seekers rather than the wild exception that it is.
The RW press have and will lap that sort of thing up. Meanwhile the flames of hate burn hotter.
The RW press have and will lap that sort of thing up. Meanwhile the flames of hate burn hotter.
November 17, 2025 at 6:52 PM
The psychopathy on display from Mahmood and the Labour government - going from writing about dark forces stirring up anger over immigration in The Guardian this morning to doing this in the Commons this evening - is quite remarkable.
Mahmood is doing that evil thing of taking ONE very, very extreme example and presenting it as if it is indicative of the entire cohort of asylum seekers rather than the wild exception that it is.
The RW press have and will lap that sort of thing up. Meanwhile the flames of hate burn hotter.
The RW press have and will lap that sort of thing up. Meanwhile the flames of hate burn hotter.
November 17, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Mahmood is doing that evil thing of taking ONE very, very extreme example and presenting it as if it is indicative of the entire cohort of asylum seekers rather than the wild exception that it is.
The RW press have and will lap that sort of thing up. Meanwhile the flames of hate burn hotter.
The RW press have and will lap that sort of thing up. Meanwhile the flames of hate burn hotter.
Labour have now published their 32-page "spank the asylum seekers" policy, with a personal forward from Starmer that affirms he is being motivated by a changing world.
That will be the same changing world which is causing Labour to hold bedrock-steady on Brexit...
www.gov.uk/government/p...
That will be the same changing world which is causing Labour to hold bedrock-steady on Brexit...
www.gov.uk/government/p...
November 17, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Labour have now published their 32-page "spank the asylum seekers" policy, with a personal forward from Starmer that affirms he is being motivated by a changing world.
That will be the same changing world which is causing Labour to hold bedrock-steady on Brexit...
www.gov.uk/government/p...
That will be the same changing world which is causing Labour to hold bedrock-steady on Brexit...
www.gov.uk/government/p...
Why not reply "No, of course not. Nobody rational would want to see that."
Asked if Keir Starmer believes British people want to "see refugee children pulled out of school and deported after 10 years in this country”, his spokesman says that “what the British public wants and what this government was elected on a mandate to deliver was to secure our borders"
November 17, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Why not reply "No, of course not. Nobody rational would want to see that."
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Starmer’s anti-asylum policies show how utterly clueless he is about the right-wing media’s role in politics.
He’s trying to fix a “problem” contrived by Farage, GB News and The Telegraph. He’ll never win, because ultimately he’s fighting a ghost – he’s fighting something that doesn’t really exist
He’s trying to fix a “problem” contrived by Farage, GB News and The Telegraph. He’ll never win, because ultimately he’s fighting a ghost – he’s fighting something that doesn’t really exist
November 17, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Starmer’s anti-asylum policies show how utterly clueless he is about the right-wing media’s role in politics.
He’s trying to fix a “problem” contrived by Farage, GB News and The Telegraph. He’ll never win, because ultimately he’s fighting a ghost – he’s fighting something that doesn’t really exist
He’s trying to fix a “problem” contrived by Farage, GB News and The Telegraph. He’ll never win, because ultimately he’s fighting a ghost – he’s fighting something that doesn’t really exist
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Imagine fleeing a war torn country, surviving migration on foot then in a dinghy. All you have are the clothes on your back and a thin gold necklace you rescued from your dad’s body that you managed to dig out of the rubble of your home.
Well fuck you. Asylum isn’t a charity you know!
Well fuck you. Asylum isn’t a charity you know!
I never had Labour pegged for this level of cruelty. Remember, we're talking about people who are forbidden from working here, often for years at a time, so they have nothing.
Labour deserve to be swept from office like a snowplough clearing a blizzard of hatred.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Labour deserve to be swept from office like a snowplough clearing a blizzard of hatred.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
November 17, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Imagine fleeing a war torn country, surviving migration on foot then in a dinghy. All you have are the clothes on your back and a thin gold necklace you rescued from your dad’s body that you managed to dig out of the rubble of your home.
Well fuck you. Asylum isn’t a charity you know!
Well fuck you. Asylum isn’t a charity you know!
Seeing Labour's approach to its latest Immigration Week cruelty, I'm beginning to think we might be better off under Reform.
It's mad. But hear me out.
Reform know they can't go too far off the rails otherwise they'll NEVER get power again. Call it a horrible experiment.
Nothing restrains Labour.
It's mad. But hear me out.
Reform know they can't go too far off the rails otherwise they'll NEVER get power again. Call it a horrible experiment.
Nothing restrains Labour.
November 17, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Seeing Labour's approach to its latest Immigration Week cruelty, I'm beginning to think we might be better off under Reform.
It's mad. But hear me out.
Reform know they can't go too far off the rails otherwise they'll NEVER get power again. Call it a horrible experiment.
Nothing restrains Labour.
It's mad. But hear me out.
Reform know they can't go too far off the rails otherwise they'll NEVER get power again. Call it a horrible experiment.
Nothing restrains Labour.
If no Labour MPs have quit the party by the end of the week, it means that they have all bought into the "extreme cruelty to immigrants" mentality for the sake of furthering their careers.
I wouldn't give Labour a glass of water if the party were on fire at this point.
I wouldn't give Labour a glass of water if the party were on fire at this point.
November 17, 2025 at 9:27 AM
If no Labour MPs have quit the party by the end of the week, it means that they have all bought into the "extreme cruelty to immigrants" mentality for the sake of furthering their careers.
I wouldn't give Labour a glass of water if the party were on fire at this point.
I wouldn't give Labour a glass of water if the party were on fire at this point.
I never had Labour pegged for this level of cruelty. Remember, we're talking about people who are forbidden from working here, often for years at a time, so they have nothing.
Labour deserve to be swept from office like a snowplough clearing a blizzard of hatred.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Labour deserve to be swept from office like a snowplough clearing a blizzard of hatred.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
November 17, 2025 at 9:23 AM
I never had Labour pegged for this level of cruelty. Remember, we're talking about people who are forbidden from working here, often for years at a time, so they have nothing.
Labour deserve to be swept from office like a snowplough clearing a blizzard of hatred.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Labour deserve to be swept from office like a snowplough clearing a blizzard of hatred.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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This is why they’ll convince nobody - the racists know they’re lying, and the appalled Labour voters also know they’re lying.
Show me the achievement here. They’re tanking now. It’s the worst of all worlds.
Show me the achievement here. They’re tanking now. It’s the worst of all worlds.
2015 Shabana Mahmood really needs to have a word with 2025 Shabana Mahmood
November 16, 2025 at 11:18 PM
This is why they’ll convince nobody - the racists know they’re lying, and the appalled Labour voters also know they’re lying.
Show me the achievement here. They’re tanking now. It’s the worst of all worlds.
Show me the achievement here. They’re tanking now. It’s the worst of all worlds.
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Okay I didn't start with any great expectations of this Labour Government but this is a new low.
The question for the next election is would I vote for Labour tactically to keep Reform or the Tories out? On the basis of this policy I could hardly see the point.
The question for the next election is would I vote for Labour tactically to keep Reform or the Tories out? On the basis of this policy I could hardly see the point.
November 16, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Okay I didn't start with any great expectations of this Labour Government but this is a new low.
The question for the next election is would I vote for Labour tactically to keep Reform or the Tories out? On the basis of this policy I could hardly see the point.
The question for the next election is would I vote for Labour tactically to keep Reform or the Tories out? On the basis of this policy I could hardly see the point.
Chris Grey calls out Labour's stupidity accurately. 🧵 ⬇️
Everything about the current 'debate' around this is dismal, not just morally but because it is so stupid. For example:
It conflates asylum-seeking and illegal immigration (and sometimes with migration generally)
It shows no understanding of why there is AS
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... 1/3
It conflates asylum-seeking and illegal immigration (and sometimes with migration generally)
It shows no understanding of why there is AS
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... 1/3
Asylum system in UK ‘out of control’ and dividing country, home secretary says
Shabana Mahmood to unveil new proposals modelled on Denmark’s controversial system
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Chris Grey calls out Labour's stupidity accurately. 🧵 ⬇️
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How does this promote integration? Stability? Mental health?
In what world is it ok to make asylum seekers permanently afraid of a knock on the door?
Labour are sick. Certainly no better than the Tories were. And arguably worse, because they SHOULD be better!
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
In what world is it ok to make asylum seekers permanently afraid of a knock on the door?
Labour are sick. Certainly no better than the Tories were. And arguably worse, because they SHOULD be better!
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
November 16, 2025 at 12:59 PM
How does this promote integration? Stability? Mental health?
In what world is it ok to make asylum seekers permanently afraid of a knock on the door?
Labour are sick. Certainly no better than the Tories were. And arguably worse, because they SHOULD be better!
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
In what world is it ok to make asylum seekers permanently afraid of a knock on the door?
Labour are sick. Certainly no better than the Tories were. And arguably worse, because they SHOULD be better!
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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I cannot see any scenario in which Labour retain power in 2029.
Net result of their 5 calamitous years will be:
- A diminished horrible inward looking country which promotes cruelty to immigrants as a virtue
- A series of half-baked half-started initiatives
- Reform government
- End of Labour
Net result of their 5 calamitous years will be:
- A diminished horrible inward looking country which promotes cruelty to immigrants as a virtue
- A series of half-baked half-started initiatives
- Reform government
- End of Labour
November 16, 2025 at 1:17 PM
I cannot see any scenario in which Labour retain power in 2029.
Net result of their 5 calamitous years will be:
- A diminished horrible inward looking country which promotes cruelty to immigrants as a virtue
- A series of half-baked half-started initiatives
- Reform government
- End of Labour
Net result of their 5 calamitous years will be:
- A diminished horrible inward looking country which promotes cruelty to immigrants as a virtue
- A series of half-baked half-started initiatives
- Reform government
- End of Labour
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Ultimately the vision of britain that starmer has is profoundly cynical, nasty and just not true. He thinks that abidicating his responsibility in showing that another option is maturity and doing the difficult thing, but he's literally just creating the hateful country he is so afraid of
November 16, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Ultimately the vision of britain that starmer has is profoundly cynical, nasty and just not true. He thinks that abidicating his responsibility in showing that another option is maturity and doing the difficult thing, but he's literally just creating the hateful country he is so afraid of
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What a gloomy, yet foreseeable outlook, all as a result of Labour chasing the votes of racists, or at least supporters of racist parties.
I cannot see any scenario in which Labour retain power in 2029.
Net result of their 5 calamitous years will be:
- A diminished horrible inward looking country which promotes cruelty to immigrants as a virtue
- A series of half-baked half-started initiatives
- Reform government
- End of Labour
Net result of their 5 calamitous years will be:
- A diminished horrible inward looking country which promotes cruelty to immigrants as a virtue
- A series of half-baked half-started initiatives
- Reform government
- End of Labour
November 16, 2025 at 2:03 PM
What a gloomy, yet foreseeable outlook, all as a result of Labour chasing the votes of racists, or at least supporters of racist parties.
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Sadly true. Labour has been taken over by morally bankrupt grifters for foreign billionaire enemies of democracy. There is now no difference between Labour, Reform and the Tories.
#VoteGreen
#VoteGreen
Labour have finally unlocked the "Tommy Robinson approves of our immigration policy" achievement badge.
It has taken 16 months, but their journey to an irredeemably vile party now seems complete.
They are the enemy now. Not the only enemy. But they are as much the enemy as the Tories ever were.
It has taken 16 months, but their journey to an irredeemably vile party now seems complete.
They are the enemy now. Not the only enemy. But they are as much the enemy as the Tories ever were.
Not everyone is unhappy about the Government's descent into anti-refugee politics
November 16, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Sadly true. Labour has been taken over by morally bankrupt grifters for foreign billionaire enemies of democracy. There is now no difference between Labour, Reform and the Tories.
#VoteGreen
#VoteGreen
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This is not the Labour Party I voted for when I gave @catherineatkinson.bsky.social my vote 😡
Yet another reason to vote @greenparty.org.uk at the next election.
Yet another reason to vote @greenparty.org.uk at the next election.
How does this promote integration? Stability? Mental health?
In what world is it ok to make asylum seekers permanently afraid of a knock on the door?
Labour are sick. Certainly no better than the Tories were. And arguably worse, because they SHOULD be better!
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
In what world is it ok to make asylum seekers permanently afraid of a knock on the door?
Labour are sick. Certainly no better than the Tories were. And arguably worse, because they SHOULD be better!
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
November 16, 2025 at 3:16 PM
This is not the Labour Party I voted for when I gave @catherineatkinson.bsky.social my vote 😡
Yet another reason to vote @greenparty.org.uk at the next election.
Yet another reason to vote @greenparty.org.uk at the next election.