We welcome Polish people to Britain!

You show me a similarity and im David Beckham


Gottcha mee wee ginger jock, I knew you would bite. Im off to bed mate I'll get back to you when, well i feel like it.

Happy New Year!!

Look at their history, they've both been a** r**** by their neighbours. Both are very hospitable. Both like to complain. We both fight our case strongly. Need I continue?

Yeah the North of Scotland is abandoned. Just some rogue haggis kicking about up there...

History does show some conflict between Scots and English yes. However, the ruling of a quarter of the world was by the British Empire which, strangely, included Scotland.

Scots do welcome Polish people in general but then again, we always have done, just as the Polish welcomed us in Poland. There's a good article posted in the Scotland thread about Scottish/Polish history but I doubt you'll bother to look for it.

Scotland did pretty well in their group. Had we beaten Georgia, we'd have been home and dry. Beating France twice is shite is it? At least we didn't draw with Macedonia, AT HOME. Ruling 1/4 of the world is nothing to be proud of unless u r an imperialist. U ought to read The Scottish Enlightenment sunshine, to see the impact we have had on the world, yeah, little old Scotland. Some of the best inventors, engineers, politicians, u name it. Try reading that b4 u get on ur high horse

Britain is a nation of immigrants and migrants.Millions of british people have gone overseas and become immigrants themselves in Australia,New Zealand,Canada,USA,and more recently Spain etc.

For 400 years Britain had the largest empire in history and benefitted and got rich from the hard work of people in India,Africa,Hong Kong,Carribean etc-as well as the hard work of British people themselves.This is the reason there are many people in Britain who originated from those former colonies.

The Polish coming here in large numbers has added to the diversity and with their similarities (enjoying football/alcohol)but also differences(traditional cooking/worship) they set a good example.There is enough work for everyone in the UK but there are sad whingers in every nation.The mostly decent Polish people are welcome here.

Someone speaks sense. From Britain's very roots we are immigrants.


I agree with this. If you'd told me a few years ago that I'd be learning to cook Polish food, struggling to learn the Polish language and that some of my best friends would be Polish (or that I'd be a mod on a Polish forum ;) I would have told you "don't talk crazy" :)

I wouldn't have it any other way now.

Yeah right ok.. you idiot!!....When comparing the achievements of Brits to any other Country......I think you will find us Brits will run rings around anyone!....They say Britain invented the modern world....What with the Industrial Revolution...Worldwide web...Computers...TV...Radar...DNA....Telephones...Jet Engines etc....Without us Brits i think all of you unachieved people would still be living in the Stone Age don't you think?

agreed ajgraham, poland has a large european population but has contributed so very little to the modern world.

Scotland is a country of only 5 million but has hugely and unproportionately contributed vast amounts to the world, and britain has a whole makes huge contributions.

what has poland done for us.

They both have borders with arscheholes


Im Scots,I dont hate the english,I hate us,the english are wa nkers and were ruled over by........sorry,just went a wee bit Trainspotting there :)


Ok,look at any list of names from the history of the British Empire,names of important people that is,and youll find most are Scots or Irish names,Gordon of khartoum etc etc


Sorry Tarquinn


Sorry,you homosexual mousey brown balding hair receding chin englishman.....


Scotsman


Scotsman


Scotsman


er,God? (but he's probably a scotsman too :) )


A point I agree on with you for a change,


oops,you were doing so well
How about,enabling our boffins to crack the later enigma codes therfore sealing victory in WW2,How about anti personnel mine detectors as used to great effect at El Alamien,probably Britains last great mil' victory.What about the dozens of people of Polish/Jewish desent who are leading lights in the arts and entertainment,I could go on but Im off to watch some telly and drink some vodka....

Isthatu has done my bidding for me, PLEASE read 'The Scottish Enlightenment' Wrocław boy, it'll show u that the Scots shaped the modern world. It has a whole chapter on how we excelled in America. England has done some good things, I've just forgotten what they are. Yeah, telly and vodka, what a nice combo.

A good Scots/Polish mix...Sorta Bonnie prince pishheed ;)

Slainte mhaite and na zdrowie to that. Yill be awa wee the fairies afore ye ken it aifter at stuff. Sorry, only English, couldn't resist it. Poles like the simple things in life which Scots do to.

Awa, yer takin' mince mon. :)

There are clubs in places like Torry in Aberdeen to teach Poles the Doric dialect. That'd be hilarious, walking into a Torry bar and being asked by the Polish barman, 'fit ye fir, min?'. They are quite popular. I've heard that Poles don't want to integrate in Edinburgh that much, well, fair enough, but learning dialects is showing an effort to integrate. When I use Silesian dialect here, the students love it as it bridges gaps

Probably it's true that some Polish people in Edinburgh don't want to integrate but then there are some Scots in Edinburgh who don't want to integrate with anyone either! Even other Scots.

A couple of my friends have picked up words like "aye" and "ken" and "dinnae".

Aye, it's a braw moon licht nicht the nicht! :)

Edinburgh does attract such people I'm afraid. How's ur Scottish PolskaDoll?

True but then again, every place with a large Polish population will also include some Poles who don't want to integrate. That's life... My Scottish is grand...it's my Polish that lets me down... :)

Do u learn Polish?

DNA..Englishman
Jet Engine...Englishman
Worldwide Web....English man
Industrial Revolution...Englishman
Computers...Englishmen....Etc...etc..
And as for TV...Radar and telephone...they were invented by a number of people outside of Scotland.

I think all you need is a good plastering mate!!.......Something you've never achieved against us yet!!

Most of those Englishmen have Scottish ancestry. OK, Bell and Baird did some research elsewhere but they are still Scottish. At least we produce more graduates relative to the size of our country given that u guys charge high fees for Further Education. Why? Because u wanted to Scotland in the UK so u gave us a sweetener. Without our oil revenues, u'd be much less rich than u r now

I try :) It's a slow process :)


Read this gmu.edu/departments/seor/student_project/syst101_00b/team18/whoinv.htm

Bell was Scottish but the telephone was patented in US. Still it's inventor was a Scot.

Exactly, he was a Scot. Polski to trudny język/Polski jest trudnym językiem, ne? I don't want to get into attacks on the English as many of my friends are English. That's an English trait, trying to gloat about how they are better. They have their good things and we have ours, so what? It's pointless arguing as they know little of our accomplishments.

...and who was behind the "iron curtain". Really.

They all have Scottish Ancestry do they?.....I take it that comment was just off the top of you head right?....and how does a Country of 5 million people pay for a country of 55 million?

I didn't say they all had, I said most. I didn't say Scotland pays for England either, on the scale that u envisage. It's u guys that want to keep us more than we want to keep u. The Scottish Parliament (1999) was a sign that we wanted more autonomy and the SNP has grown in voice in recent years.

Then again, this thread would be about welcoming Polish people to Britain, not the differing opinions regarding Scotland and England...

So, welcome to Britain!!

You havn't all given up already have Polskadoll??....Don't start an arguement you carn't win!......and good night!

Er, no, just trying to keep this thread on topic.

A report written by the Scottish Office economist Gavin McCrone for ministers[16] in the mid-1970s indicated that with ownership of North Sea oil, an independent Scotland would have "embarrassingly large tax surpluses"[17], that the economy of an independent Scotland, with control over the majority of UK North Sea oil revenue would have the one of the "hardest" currencies in Europe and that "for the first time since the Act Of Union was passed, it can now be credibly argued that Scotland's economic advantage lies in its repeal

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_Scotland%27s_oil


Such a parcel of rogues in a nation.
alba.org.uk/burns/rogues.html