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WanWizard 🇪🇺 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇳🇱

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IT Entrepreneur. DC architect. PHP developer. Fuel PHP Framework project lead. Open Source lover. Asperger brain. Old Dutch. New Scot. Always European. Also on @wanwizard@mastodon.scot.

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WanWizard 🇪🇺 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇳🇱 @wanwizard.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The same Robert Jenrick who helped his developer pal to 40 million quid of public money?
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Liar. Small boat crossings peaked under Johnson in 2022 reaching 46,000 in 2022. In current year they are 18,565 and falling. Also prior to Boris Johnson's Brexit there were none.
It's a disaster, and it can all be traced to
Labour ideology. Burnham has no mandate
from the people. He has no real ideas, and
no plan,

Johnson on X
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Jeez. By now even Larry the cat knows it was Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal which caused the skyrocketing number of small boat crossings in the English Channel
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WanWizard 🇪🇺 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇳🇱 @wanwizard.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Punishing desparation has never fixed anything, anywhere, ever.
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WanWizard 🇪🇺 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇳🇱 @wanwizard.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Same here, almost there, and definitely Yes as well !
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WanWizard 🇪🇺 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇳🇱 @wanwizard.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Reintroduce the outdoor cludgie ? Can't be the most obvious reason, most people in Ayshire have never seen an immigrant, let alone one in a dinghy.
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Anyone who believes this bunch of con artists represents their interests is either a billionaire or seriously misinformed. leftfootforward.org/2026/09/outr...
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Outrage as Reform-run council votes to shut 10 nurseries
Members of the public shouted “you should be ashamed” as Reform councillors approved the plans
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 25/09/2026
This is what Reform UK do when they're in charge.
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WanWizard 🇪🇺 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇳🇱 @wanwizard.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I want and try to pay a fair wage. Unfortunately, I am limited to the hourly rates our clients are willing to pay. And while many are more than happy to pay 1500-2000 per day to some nitwit from a big IT or consultancy firm, they moan if I want to increase the hourly rates by 5 quid.
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WanWizard 🇪🇺 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇳🇱 @wanwizard.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
As an employer, I'd have to admit I would be a bit reluctant too. Not because of the age (I am living proof age doesn't matter, skills do), but because of the salary expectations, and the increased risk of someone "being off sick" for a long time, which as a small business I can't really afford.
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WanWizard 🇪🇺 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇳🇱 @wanwizard.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
And add to that the miserable state the NHS is in, so even if you get a proper diagnosis, getting help is a long time off. A friend can't walk because of a busted knee, her doctor doesn't even want to approve knee replacement. She's hardly left the house in over a year, now saving for an op abroad.
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WanWizard 🇪🇺 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇳🇱 @wanwizard.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Also, it is very dangerous to aggregate on a national level, the fact the perfect job for someone in Inverness is available in Truro is not every helpful.
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WanWizard 🇪🇺 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇳🇱 @wanwizard.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
How many of these 707.000 are for waitresses and cleaners? I don't think filling those vacancies is the problem. My guess is most of those are for skilled jobs, and there are no job seekers with those skills available.
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WanWizard 🇪🇺 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇳🇱 @wanwizard.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
There is nothing intelligent about AI. It is just statistical probablilties. There is a lot more information online about older stuff, so that has a higher hit. As some comedian put it: ask your AI robot hoover to clean the floor, chances are it will toss your cat and all the furniture out.
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WanWizard 🇪🇺 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇳🇱 @wanwizard.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Saw in a poll today that South Ayrshire would go to Deform if there were elections today. WTAF ? What do people think these incompetent morons are going to fix for them?
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Good. Now arrest those who were with him for conspiracy, and then arrest those who tried to set fire to a hotel for arson. And then proscribe the group as a terrorist organisation. Which is what you are if you use violence for political ends. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Police arrest far-right activist Daniel Thomas after dinghy slashed in Channel
Thirty-seven-year-old in custody on suspicion of crimes including criminal damage with intent to endanger life
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WanWizard 🇪🇺 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇳🇱 @wanwizard.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This will probably be called "legitimate concerns".
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WanWizard 🇪🇺 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇳🇱 @wanwizard.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The union told her to stop being a bigotted asshole. And rightly so.
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WanWizard 🇪🇺 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇳🇱 @wanwizard.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
It is better that someone wins who will (try to) keep Burnham honest, then one more yes-man on the back bench.
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WanWizard 🇪🇺 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇳🇱 @wanwizard.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
So it should be an argument FOR independence, not against it!
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WanWizard 🇪🇺 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇳🇱 @wanwizard.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The problem is that the Scottish government doesn't have a lot of means and power to do something about it. The root causes of many drug related problems are abject poverty and no prospects for improvement whatsoever. Which is a situation that has been decades in the making, long before devolution.
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WanWizard 🇪🇺 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇳🇱 @wanwizard.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
There are reasons there are no safe routes, and yes, both are to blame. The Conservatives for removing those that existed, and Labour for not fixing it (and with it, the source that fuels the hate of the populists).
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WanWizard 🇪🇺 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇳🇱 @wanwizard.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
And "very naughty boy" doesn't begin to describe him.
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WanWizard 🇪🇺 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇳🇱 @wanwizard.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
If a legal route would be established, boat crossings would stop overnight, as figures show the vast majority of people crossing are succesful in their asylum claim. People don't want to pay thousands to smugglers and risk their lives if there is no need. The UK deliberately sustains this.
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WanWizard 🇪🇺 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇳🇱 @wanwizard.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Yes, because there are NO LEGAL ROUTES available to most of them. This has been a deliberate move by the Tories to influence public opinion, which has greatly played into the hands of the far right and their MSM...
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WanWizard 🇪🇺 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇳🇱 @wanwizard.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Limited to Ukraine, Hong-Kong, and three related to Afganistan. Of zero use to most asylum seekers.
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WanWizard 🇪🇺 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇳🇱 @wanwizard.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Asylum seekers cannot therefore come to the UK ‘illegally’; illegality may only ever occur if they do not report their presence to the authorities and remain in the UK as undocumented migrants. 3/3
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WanWizard 🇪🇺 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇳🇱 @wanwizard.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
As, although it would be illegal for migrants who are not seeking asylum to enter by such means, asylum seekers are entitled to come to the UK via whatever means possible, provided they inform the authorities of their presence upon their arrival and have good reason for seeking asylum. 2/3
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WanWizard 🇪🇺 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇳🇱 @wanwizard.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
When people talk about asylum seekers coming to the UK ‘illegally’, what they really mean is asylum seekers arriving via informal and unofficial routes, such as crossing the Channel via small boat. However, asylum seekers are legally allowed to come to the UK even when making an ‘illegal entry’. 1/3
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WanWizard 🇪🇺 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇳🇱 @wanwizard.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Please elaborate. How exactly can someone claim asylum while not on British soil? What is the exact procedure? Where are the legal document to corroborate that?
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WanWizard 🇪🇺 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇳🇱 @wanwizard.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Reinstate legal routes, problem solved.
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WanWizard 🇪🇺 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇳🇱 @wanwizard.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
They found a better way, simply replace everyone in charge with political appointees, and removing those critical of a rightwing agenda from political news / current affairs programmes. It has made the BBC a right wing propaganda machine. Even with a Labour government in charge, that hasn't changed
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WanWizard 🇪🇺 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇳🇱 @wanwizard.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
No surprise that is was a Tory who found a way to keep their hands in the till, even when they're gone. She wasn't even PM long enough to get her wallpaper delivered, FFS!
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WanWizard 🇪🇺 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇳🇱 @wanwizard.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
What he means is "effectively not OUR propaganda".
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WanWizard 🇪🇺 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇳🇱 @wanwizard.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
My washer dryer says it is insulted by this comparison.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Remember in Schindler's List when the Nazi commander uses a sniper rifle to shoot prisoners in the Concentration Camp. This is a video of Israel using machine guns from a tank to shoot prisoners in a Concentration Camp.
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
"Legitimate concerns don’t require politicians to agree with them. They require politicians to investigate them honestly, explain what the evidence says, fix the problems that are real, and stop feeding the fears that aren’t." No paywall russincheshire.substack.com/p/legitimate...
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Legitimate Concerns
How politicians turned migration into a permanent panic — and why the facts tell a different story
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WanWizard 🇪🇺 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇳🇱 @wanwizard.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
You'd be amazed what people can get off on...
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WanWizard 🇪🇺 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇳🇱 @wanwizard.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Hilarious to see nutters like this go on about free speech, while dismissing anything that isn't "their free speech" as fake. If he really thinks he should be allowed to say absolutely anything to anyone and get away with it, I suggest he does a "Rex Kramer" and see how that goes:
Scene from the movie "Kentucky Fried Movie" in which a white scrawny guy dressed up as a stuntman walks into a black neighborhood, and yells "dirty <n-word>"
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Man who migrated to another country to avoid taxes says Britain's problem is migration and taxes that he doesn't pay. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Jim Ratcliffe: UK is ‘on the slide’ from days when it had world’s ‘greatest empire’
Co-owner of Manchester United says Britain is in decline because of high taxes and immigration
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
How the BBC’s latest platforming of the bigoted views of the anti-migrant billionaire tax exile Jim Ratcliffe is the sign of a national broadcaster that is increasingly losing its way www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/how-the-bb...
adambienkov.co.uk
How the BBC Mainstreams the Right’s Anti-Migrant, Anti-British Agenda
The BBC’s platforming of the bigoted views of billionaire tax exile Jim Ratcliffe is just the latest sign of a national broadcaster that has lost its way
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WanWizard 🇪🇺 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇳🇱 @wanwizard.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
No. Not if being busy with your own life tops watching that of others.
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WanWizard 🇪🇺 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇳🇱 @wanwizard.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Yet another Red Tory raking it in.
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WanWizard 🇪🇺 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇳🇱 @wanwizard.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I doubt he knew that part. Some people are just ignorant morons.
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Cees-Jan Kiewiet @wyrihaxim.us · 18/09/2026
Nothing says "We value your privacy" as "We and our 641 partners" 🫠 #privacy #adblock #fuckthisshit
Website privacy notice titled "We value your privacy" with a visible subline stating "We and our 641 partners may store or access information..." about cookies and consent.
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WanWizard 🇪🇺 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇳🇱 @wanwizard.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Perhaps because the police sympathises with these far right lunatics? It wouldn't surprise me, after being found out to be institutionally racist.
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WanWizard 🇪🇺 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇳🇱 @wanwizard.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Not very into police / detectives myself, so I'm all out of suggestions now... 🤷 Binged Lucifer (www.imdb.com/title/tt4052...) the last time I had a bad case of lurgy.
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WanWizard 🇪🇺 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇳🇱 @wanwizard.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Lurgy huh? Must be very painful, I feel for you 🤣. Seen "Patience" (ITV)?
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WanWizard 🇪🇺 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇳🇱 @wanwizard.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Compared with the rest of Europe, Brits are so blissfully unaware of what war at home means , and/or to be occupied. In 1940, most of the males 18-40 in my family were rounded up and deported to work as slaves in german factories, or to be shot. If you were fighting age, you got the hell out.
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