News / Poland PiS' unpopular welfare policies lead to spike in TV purchases and alcohol problems [31]

Exactly. No shame in that at all. I was laid off due to oil price crash when my nipper was born. The DHSS dived straight in, with voucher this, voucher that.

The missus was well chuffed. And neither of us was at all humble or embarassed.

UK, Ireland / How might Britain`s withdrawal from EU affect Poles there and here? [474]

A lot of Poles who qualify to vote are for Brexit, as my normally reliable Polish pal on the spot asserts. Or can you correct that?

News / Poland PiS' unpopular welfare policies lead to spike in TV purchases and alcohol problems [31]

Single mothers with one child. Decent hard working people on a low salary, with one child. Children with alcoholic parents. This is Poland, remember?

UK, Ireland / How might Britain`s withdrawal from EU affect Poles there and here? [474]



Cough. As I said - Poles aiming to vote to keep their brethren, who are not there already, out. Astounding.

UK, Ireland / How might Britain`s withdrawal from EU affect Poles there and here? [474]


Is Nazi regalia OK with you then?

UK, Ireland / How might Britain`s withdrawal from EU affect Poles there and here? [474]


I was about to post the same. Money tells the tale. And a lot of folks questioned on the street would say OUT as a sign of bravado to their mates or whatever.

When their livelyhoods are threatened by Brexit and they are in the privacy of the election booth, they will forget about how charismatic Boris is, or how Farage says the England of Richard the Lionheart must be protected at all costs (it died with the post-war social reforms).

It's a shoe in, and even at 4-7, a lot of the rich will be filling their boots, like they did with the Scottish Independence vote.

UK, Ireland / How might Britain`s withdrawal from EU affect Poles there and here? [474]


That's terrible:) But would you or would you not agree Roz that Nigel has done a lot of harm to the Brexit case? I mean, you don't support this PIS shower, so why the love for Nige?

UK, Ireland / How might Britain`s withdrawal from EU affect Poles there and here? [474]


Nobody is leaving the EU at present PI, deffo not the UK.

Sorry to curb your enthusiasm for disaster and all that, just because of your outlining that "I'm alright Jack." Go and vote Brexit, that's your view, and I concur, but the young voters will have their say and Britain will stay in. I will bet my shirt on it.

UK, Ireland / How might Britain`s withdrawal from EU affect Poles there and here? [474]


So you say. We know your agenda here. Shameful.

UK, Ireland / How might Britain`s withdrawal from EU affect Poles there and here? [474]


An excellent report Dolno. Very glad indeed to hear it. Communities should stick together, whatever the Neo-Cons in their posh estates say about "full integration" - which happens anyway.

UK, Ireland / How might Britain`s withdrawal from EU affect Poles there and here? [474]


I know what a Polish club is Dolno:) I spent a few of my teenage Sundays in one on Sherwood Rise in Nottingham (father's colleague). And I stick to my obbo. No offence or slight intended to the memory of that brave generation.

UK, Ireland / How might Britain`s withdrawal from EU affect Poles there and here? [474]


Are you surprised? Poles never help each other. Polonia who settled in the UK after the war absolutely despise the new wave of immigrants.
And now that new wave sees the chance to keep their brethren out. Pretty disgusting, in my view.


Yes you are right. We summer rented a house in Hammersmith a few years ago, and a hell of a lot of gangs were roaming the streets, and it wasn't the same place that I had lived in 30 years previously while at uni. Nothing stays the same.

UK, Ireland / How might Britain`s withdrawal from EU affect Poles there and here? [474]


I will thank you not to compare a decent human being with a bigot.

Enoch Powell was a gifted politician and humanitarian whose career was tragically cut short by the "good-speak" of the times. You will well remember the political climate of those times though and the hard fight for anti-discrimination laws.

Nigel Farage,on the other hand, is an ex-banker and a racist, who is trying to press his outlandish views on the British public, and only the great unwashed and PIS are stupid enough to fall for his anti-immigration rants.

UK, Ireland / How might Britain`s withdrawal from EU affect Poles there and here? [474]


Yes - I didn't know that when I labelled him as a racist thug. Obviously a very ill individual, but that goes without saying. How the hell did he get a licence for hunting? This really is very sad.

UK, Ireland / How might Britain`s withdrawal from EU affect Poles there and here? [474]


Quite the contrary, and we know your political views, so why are you commenting? Cox was a careerist in the human aid sector, a tireless worker for refugee rights, and should be remembered for such, in this world where loudmouth bigots such as Farage and Kaczynski are encouraged by some to prosper.


They can't write though, so how can they vote?

UK, Ireland / How might Britain`s withdrawal from EU affect Poles there and here? [474]


Startling vision:(
Two disgusting events have contributed towards a Remain surge today. The first, idiotically so, is Nigel Farages' gormless poster campaign against immigration, which the British people have rightly thrown out.

I guess it wont take long til PIS adopt it though....

The second (tragic) event is the murder by a racist thug of the Labour MP and refugee campaigner Jo Cox.

UK, Ireland / How might Britain`s withdrawal from EU affect Poles there and here? [474]


This referendum is just that - the voice of the people
Luckily, in this case all will be well. The polls are flawed and Remain will win. Bet your house on it. I was wrong about a bloody tennis match but Poles can rest easy. Brits know what side their bread is buttered on

News / Poland leads in child well-being -- UNICEF [75]


Lis was saying in Newsweek that we have to be prepared for PIS maybe being in power for longer than the one term. If he is right I'll get my coat.

UK, Ireland / How might Britain`s withdrawal from EU affect Poles there and here? [474]


And Cameron is? Not on a par with the populist PIS mob, but he fancies himself to be "Of the people."

News / PM Szydło support a bill to rebuild Polish shipping and ship-building [29]


..........agitating against governmental interference in the economy and society, and peoples' right to live their day to day lives.

Sorry to speak for you jon - but I felt I had to:)

News / Poland leads in child well-being -- UNICEF [75]


The parents have to go where the work is. In the past, every town had a metalworks. To provide employment. In today's world, however deplorable the truth is, Norman Tebbitt was right. You have to get on your bike and go where the work is. And provide for YOUR children. Look the reference up.

Poland is too poor for socialism, and those of us who work hard for a living ain't gonna pay for people to sit around on "the farm" doing bugger all.

PS If succcessive governments cared at all, they would demolish the inner cities and half of Silesia and revitalise the cities. We have talked about this before. They refuse to act, and actually want to subjugate the poor. This PIS government will be only worse. Paying for booze and cigarettes. with the taxpayers' money.

News / PM Szydło support a bill to rebuild Polish shipping and ship-building [29]


The huge majority of people here in shipbuilding land are solidly AGAINST Kaczynski Polonius - and that is a cast iron fact. I live here and all I hear on the street is the disdain for and fear of PIS.

And nobody will be fooled by this latest propaganda in an attempt to buy votes.
Stick to el topic please and less of the party political broadcast:)

Travel / Poland Travel Help, first time visitor from Singapore - ways to cash withdrawal, cost of meal in McDonald ... [58]


As ever, you are the transport king kpc21. Sorry for outdated info folks. Katowice is now a modern city:) Not like Cambridge UK - which I happen to know is a 'mare for coach travel:(

News / Poland's Sejm passes anti-terrorist act; opposition negate [86]


So was the taxpayer in communist times.............do you get the connection Ironside?

News / Poland marching for life and family [132]

These people are not representative of Poland today, and are spreading PIS propaganda. Christopher Hitchens has famously rubbished birth control in Channel 4's "Mother Teresa: Hell's Angel" and in essay.

youtube.com/watch?v=65JxnUW7Wk4

The state again is allied to the catholic doctrine of subjugation to religion. and the more PIS push this doctrine, the bigger their defeat will be in 3 and a half years time.

News / Poland marching for life and family [132]

The woman's body is her own private affair, and always will be, unless she is sadly weak enough to be indoctrinated in this modern age , that is.

News / PM Szydło support a bill to rebuild Polish shipping and ship-building [29]


I will. Ridiculous hyperbole. If we talk refitting, or smaller/ specialist builds, then we are in business. Trojmiasto has had amazing growth in contractors and maritime engineering - but the shipyards as they were are dead in the water - as per Clydebank in Scotland.

More PIS nonsense.

UK, Ireland / How might Britain`s withdrawal from EU affect Poles there and here? [474]


All perfectly true. It would be a disaster of titanic proportions. For Europe as a whole. I am not a conspiracy theorist but the British establishment will never allow Brexit to happen. The 18-30s will come away from the sea, sangria and sex and vote for Remain -

and the UK will stay in OUR Europe.
Otherwise I might shoot the dog and top mysen.

UK, Ireland / How might Britain`s withdrawal from EU affect Poles there and here? [474]


And how is Britain going to do that? Because a skewed poll in the Independent newspaper says so?

Travel / Poland Travel Help, first time visitor from Singapore - ways to cash withdrawal, cost of meal in McDonald ... [58]

My daughter takes that bus to Krakow all the time. She pays the driver. It is first come, first served - or was, last year..............

No - my daughter says you must buy tickets for ini-bus and inter- bus at the kiosk /ticket office by the coach terminus outside hotel Katowice/ Korfantego. Rules changed last year. You cannot buy a ticket from the driver.