News / PiS to impose blanket retail tax in Poland [291]

Don't be silly, you old S.O.B (great that you've set a precedent for that term and great that a Mod has approved it - it fits you beautifully). As well you know, one party is trusted with the economy, other parties are unknown quantities and the clowns who are temporarily in office have an appalling record on the economy.

And of course they don't care about impoverishing retail workers (already so very poorly paid) since they don't want people to be affluent or content - since as I said, people who are affluent and content don't vote for extreme nationalistic political lepers like PiS.

News / PiS to impose blanket retail tax in Poland [291]


Basically more (and the ridiculous new retail tax which will cost people's jobs is part of this) PiS Soviet-style behaviour. It's all they actually know.

The sick thing is that their so-called 'economic programme' will just impoverish people who are already badly paid. That is of course exactly what people want - after all, people don't vote for fascist parties when they're happy, do they?

News / Demonstrations in Poland in defence of democracy. [2554]


What do they actually do at those gatherings?

UK, Ireland / Do Polish People Litter their own country (just like they do in the UK)? [84]


Huge graffiti too - but yes, people do litter.



They don't think about much at all unless it's for immediate personal satisfaction - I notice a lot of stuff dumped by farmers; especially building waste, just thrown in the forest.

Food / A recipe for hootch? Bimber taste in Poland. [42]

Biedronka are now selling something labelled as Bimber. I think 55%.

UK, Ireland / Con Air UK: Flights take Polish criminals home - the cost to you is £25million [30]

Apparently they were part of a group of 20 living in tents by The Stray!

The equivalent of pitching up a tent city in the Spa park at Ciechocinek or by the pier at Sopot!!!

Law / TRANSFERING MONEY IN CAD - BEST EXCHANGE RATES? WHICH BANK? [14]


Try WorldFirst; I've used both and found that WorldFirst gives a better rate and has a much easier portal.

News / Adam Michnik awarded for integrity, professionalism and high standards. Poland's No. 1 fascist? [321]


Yep, still sells plenty and is respected.

The criticisms of it on here by some of the usual suspects tend to come as part of a package.

Life / What's the best way to send money to people in Poland? Other than bank transfer, Western Union and Moneygram. [13]

I've used transfer wise and it was ok however I changed to WorldFirst which gives a better deal and is easier to use.

News / PiS to impose blanket retail tax in Poland [291]


???


To every extent. Joining the single market is the best thing that has ever happened to Poland, who are by far the largest net beneficiary of infrastructure funding. The EU as a whole also provides a check on excesses by the regime.

hard to say though how this relates to the disastrous and unpopular proposal for retail tax that will cause prices to rise and jobs to be lost.


Still waiting, Po, still waiting...

News / PiS to impose blanket retail tax in Poland [291]


In what way does that relate to the unpopular retail tax?


You mean the badly needed new bridge across the river fairly near ul. Krasinskiego? One would hope that letters from the "not in my back yard" residents of the area, including yourself certainly don't stop it. Nothing to do with the hugely unpopular and economically incompetent new retail tax though, a tax that will force up prices and lead to job losses.


Still waiting...

News / Jaruzelski dead / his legacy in Poland [116]

Didn't you make a thread about this earlier today that was merged into another?

News / Demonstrations in Poland in defence of democracy. [2554]

You mean of course President Komorowski, someone far from hated and someone who might be expected to attend a war remembrance ceremony without tasteless heckling from PiS cult supporters.

The same bunch who also heckle funerals.

News / Demonstrations in Poland in defence of democracy. [2554]


No need to hold a memorial ceremony for the Warsaw Uprising?

News / PiS to impose blanket retail tax in Poland [291]


A certain type of person, regardless of what country they are in, will always say that. It doesn't mean they are right; in fact they never are.


See above. On a level with the comments field in the Daily Mail.


Not just the "vast majrotiy" (sic) but pretty well everyone has benefitted hugely from Poland choosing to be part of the single market.


I doubt we'll get much of an answer, however the answer is obvious. It comes from his imagination, like so many other 'factoids' in this thread.

The fact (and it is a fact not a factoid) is that most people here oppose the new retail tax, the tax that will cause so much damage to an already ailing economy.

News / Demonstrations in Poland in defence of democracy. [2554]


Nothing vile about that; and very different from picketing a funeral and screaming at the grieving mourners - that's true Westboro Baptist Church stuff.


That insinuation - like so many you have made here in this thread - is a lie, plain and simple.

Classifieds / Warsaw Pub Quiz in English [9]

There's also an English language pub quiz at Legends Bar on ul. Emilii Plater - I think it's once a month on the first Friday.

News / PiS to impose blanket retail tax in Poland [291]


Spot on, and in very much in their electoral interest that people remain poor. This tax will just add to that since retailers will recoup it in either prices, staff T&Cs or more likely both.

News / Demonstrations in Poland in defence of democracy. [2554]

What was that all about?

I remember some of their fan base picketing Bronislaw Geremek's funeral with vile slogans on placards.

UK, Ireland / Transfer Money from UK to Poland [36]


Agreed 100%. I've used them often and they are good. Very quick too.

News / Is Kinga Duda of Poland the most beautiful first-daughter of the world? [50]


I suspect that the handbag doesn't match the shoes, as it were...

I so have to buy this product. Every morning I can gaze at his radiant countenance

fineartamerica.com/products/president-andrzej-duda-with-a-tiger-maciej-mackiewicz-shower-curtain.html

Of course it's the inner beauty that really matters. I'm happy never having to peer inside.

Travel / Behavior of Polish travellers on Planes. [72]


In what sense is someone a "capitalist spoiled brat" if they pay a tenner more because they physically appreciate the extra legroom and insist in sitting in their assigned seat during takeoff (this is by the way a legal requirement so they can identify your body if the plane crashes)?


Looks that way. Some of us do it between 9 and 12 times a month for work reasons. And if you fly without checked in luggage and have a driver waiting or a train ticket booked, you pay the tenner to be up at the front. On classier flights, if you either get a business class ticket (as I'm lucky enough to get) or you get upgraded then you do appreciate sitting in the seat that's specified on your boarding pass.


Great, let them do that in the pub or the street. Not on a plane.

History / "Poland's Concentration Camp" ?? [570]


As well you know, most weren't, though during the 30s there was no shortage at all of admirers of the far-right. Not so much the German model but closer to Dollfuss's Austro-fascism.

News / Demonstrations in Poland in defence of democracy. [2554]

And see the weird stuff that comes out of the minority (that can write in English of sorts) that support the PiS cult.

UK, Ireland / Daniel Pelka murder: Polish mother and stepfather face life sentences [96]

That was my old career and there just wasn't a problem involving a reticence to become engaged with Polish families. The only case I was ever involved with that was delicate was an elderly Polish/Ukrainian couple of extreme views (they weren't welcome in the local Polish Club) who were reticent to say the least to let their adult son go into respite care (he badly needed this) because the Unit Manager (a perfect gentleman) was a different colour to them.

There were certainly more recent migrants from Poland and elsewhere who needed serious intervention due to issues with illtreated children (alcohol was in every case a major factor) and this happened regardless of their origin and despite their protesting.

News / Attack on Poland's judicial independence [50]


And now it's going to be much, much worse...

News / Attack on Poland's judicial independence [50]


That's where clear parameters in the law are important - something that PiS wishes to subvert.


Given that PiS don't want the public to control the government, but instead believe that they are right regardless of what anyone thinks renders that comment meaningless.

UK, Ireland / Daniel Pelka murder: Polish mother and stepfather face life sentences [96]


I am and haven't seen a problem; whenever I've hired, it's been on merit - whichever candidate is best for the job. In social services they don't shy away from engagement with a family just because they came from Poland.

UK, Ireland / Daniel Pelka murder: Polish mother and stepfather face life sentences [96]


No. In this case there isn't any suggestion that the ethnicity of the family had any bearing - in fact (as the howls of protest within Poland show), children of recent Polish migrants often come into contact with Social Services.


It doesn't at all.

News / Attack on Poland's judicial independence [50]


They should be completely independent.

The idea of an independent prosecution service (or for that matter an independent anything) is however alien to the PiS cult, as the excellent article shows.