Labour MP: Asylum Housing Debate Toxified by Racial Hatred on the ‘Hard Right’

Time to have a quick peek at what's going on in the U.K. As I reported back in September in a VIP post, Piddington, a tiny village in Oxfordshire with 350 residents, held a symbolic vote to become independent of the U.K. and be known as the Principality of Paddington, in response to the government's plans to dump more than 1,200 male "asylum-seekers" from Muslim countries on a military base right outside the village. Of the "extreme far-right" residents of Piddington, 312 cast votes, and 285 voted to leave.

BBC Newsnight managed to find one of the AWFLs who voted against the resolution. "It's really upsetting," she said. "It's always been the most amazingly peaceful place to live, and we've never experienced the level of overt racism that we’re witnessing."

Back on BBC Newsnight, Piddington came up again, as Labour MP Steve Reed said that the asylum housing debate had been stirred up and toxified by the "hard right."

"This whole issue has been toxified by people primarily on the hard right." Labour MP Steve Reed says the asylum housing debate in places like Piddington has been stirred up by right-wing parties and led to "racial hatred". #Newsnight https://t.co/8dnwdqo1Li
— BBC Newsnight (@BBCNewsnight) November 13, 2026

@BBCNewsnight This programme was a disgrace. Your bias is unchecked and off the scale
— Liz Kershaw (@LizKershawDJ) November 13, 2026

@BBCNewsnight Actually, it's all the rapes, Steve. And you know they're going on, because your government is giving migrants leaflets asking them to please not sexually assault a child. Why are you lying and downplaying the danger of foreign rapists, Steve?
— Connor Tomlinson (@Con_Tomlinson) November 14, 2026

The U.K. Home Office literally printed up booklets for asylum-seekers arriving by boat across the English Channel, teaching them that sex with children is illegal. “Even if they say yes, it is still illegal. You could go to prison, lose your support and accommodation, and it will affect your asylum claim.”

@BBCNewsnight If it’s “hard right” to not want illegal foreigners here. Than surely the only moral position is to be “hard right”? Hard right it is then
— CagnaMartyr (@cagnamartyr) November 13, 2026

@BBCNewsnight Stirred up by Tory and Labour governments who lost control of the borders. Joke response.
— Matt Goodwin (@GoodwinMJ) November 13, 2026

@BBCNewsnight It might be the rapes that are toxifying the issue. https://t.co/FtMGzTpIz6
— WIRED 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 (@WIREDGAMING11) November 13, 2026

@BBCNewsnight Oh stop it you lefty prick. The so called hard right are just ordinary hard working Brits that are sick of your shit.
— Mr Wainwright (@N_Wainright) November 13, 2026

@BBCNewsnight No, it's been "toxified" by people insisting on importing unvetted foreign men who then go on to rape or even murder British people. And not only they want to import these men, they also insist on providing them with free housing at taxpayer expense, instead of deporting them.
— Sensei Seagal's body double (@seagalstuntman) November 13, 2026

@BBCNewsnight The villagers are going to be outnumbered four to one by unvetted foreign criminals. Do you seriously think something as outrageous as that NEEDS "stirred up"?
— Fergus Mason #BurnhamOut 🇬🇧🇺🇦 (@FergusMason25) November 13, 2026

@BBCNewsnight Local residents are concerned about rapey criminal men wandering around their neighbourhoods. The government just wishes they would shut up. If they don't shut up, then the government labels them as "far-right racists".
— Dom (@DomMgy1) November 13, 2026

@BBCNewsnight It wouldn't be "toxified by the hard right" if you addressed the publics concern about housing large groups of foreign military age men at taxpayers expense. Many of them are from safe countries (where Brits go on holiday) so it's not clear why they're seeking asylum at all.
— Basil Lynch 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 (@BasilLynchUK) November 13, 2026

@BBCNewsnight Jeez. They're recycling "Rachel from Piddington"again. The BBC are getting desperate.
— FrankLeeBrian (@FrankLeeBrian) November 13, 2026

@BBCNewsnight It's been divided by politicians on all sides who refuse to acknowledge the concerns of the public. @SteveReedMP When women and girls safety is compromised it's not an issue of left or right - and to reduce it to this is morally repugnant of you.
— Jules Chapman (@River7Botherer) November 14, 2026

@BBCNewsnight You are all so out of touch with ordinary people, destroying their towns and villages with mass immigration. There's no upside to your actions. Not socially. Not economically. Not culturally. It only sows discord, but I suppose Labour is hoping for more voters.
— Cher 🇬🇧 (@calamity911) November 14, 2026

They've gone from the "far right" to the "extreme far right" to the "hard right," thinking they can shut down any debate by implying anyone opposed to unvetted migration is racist. Piddington is just a bastion of the hard right, apparently.