UK, Ireland / Brits to protest against foreigners in the workforce, including Poles. [289]

None whatsoever. At least their forerunners (and inspiration) invented the VW.

UK, Ireland / Brits to protest against foreigners in the workforce, including Poles. [289]

No. For most of her 'career' she wasn't, and when she was convicted as a "little old lady" they suspended her sentence due to old age and general nuttiness. She only got the sentence because she was a frequent flyer at the courthouse for handing out pamphlets to strangers that were written to upset.

Work / Daily Tiffin food service for Office workers [3]

There are quite a few in Warsaw. It helps to have contacts in companies to sell, since the market is competitive to say the least, but if your idea somehow distinguishes itself from the rest, give it a go.

UK, Ireland / Brits to protest against foreigners in the workforce, including Poles. [289]


Lloyds of London? Don't remember that. I run a business though.


Many of their activists have been prosecuted.

Past and present activists, John Tyndall, Colin Jordan, Nick Griffin, Lady Birdwood, Mark Collett, Tony Lecomber. They've all had their collar felt, usually for inciting hatred. A fair few more for violence. A true 'party of convictions'. And they may well be "shut down".

Here is a handy list of some BNP activists crimes for voters wondering who might be representing them if they tick the wrong box.


Google her - a BNP parliamentary candidate and longstanding nutter. Used to stand on street corners in London giving pamphlets out. As nutty and agressive as the rest of them, but sounded posh due to an ex-husband having a title.

News / Poland: In Top First 15 Countries in the WORLD by the number of CRIMES [286]


I had quite an argument with someone a few years ago. He'd been watching a documentary on Discovery Channel or some such similar, on Serial Killers. He said it seems to be a British phenomeon because there were so many there.

In fact, it was a British documentary - that was why it was about the UK ones. That and the fact that British society, topography and infrastructure mean that they tend to be caught fairly soon.

He insisted that there can't possibly be any Polish Serial Killers, because of course it isn't a Polish tradition. Nor are mobile phones, swingers clubs, sushi or one-armed-bandits, but all of those abound here. And Poland is not specially immune to the very worst aspects of human behaviour.

At the same time that we were arguing, there were billboards around central Warsaw with pictures of missing persons. So many of them were teenage girls of the same physical type, hair colour and age.

Maybe I read too many trashy detective novels, but there seemed to be a pattern.

And there are certainly a lot of missing persons posters here in Warsaw.

Some psychologists say that serial killing is a product of urban society - I'm not sure, since there have certainly been rural ones. But Poland is both an urban and rural society so that wouldn't have an effect. The FBI estimate that there are around 40 such people operating in the USA at any given time. If the US population is 309 million and Poland 38 million, this means that there are around 5 serial killers not yet caught.

I would suggest that figure is higher, since the FBI are well resourced, effective and professional, whereas the Polish police are not.

I've known people here who have gone missing, including my closest friend and also a colleague - most have turned up sooner or later. But all those young girls with blond hair, about 13 or 14 who dissappeared while walking home from school in Mazowsze must be somewhere.

And Poland is an easy country in which to hide someone/something.

UK, Ireland / Brits to protest against foreigners in the workforce, including Poles. [289]


A bizarre claim. On the estates near my home, in a multicultural city, the faces on the estates are generally white.


Almost certainly many more than you, having lived there.

The fact remains that however the voters of Britain feel about various policies, including but not only immigration, they are generally too sensible to vote for an openly racist and fascist 'party' with neo-nazi roots.

The BNP's members and active supporters know they are the bad guys. Clowns, misfits, losers, loners and social inadequates certainly, but nevertheless malevolent ones.

Life / Is it true that you cannot swear in public in Poland? [13]


It's 50zl. My friend was fined in Toruń a couple of years ago. He never paid and hasn't heard anything.

Episcopate in Poland in defense of Polish language


I agree the language must be cleaned of vulgarities etc. However, it can`t be done by passing new laws. It is the family and school work.

UK, Ireland / Brits to protest against foreigners in the workforce, including Poles. [289]


I'll read that. And that quote is true.

UK, Ireland / Brits to protest against foreigners in the workforce, including Poles. [289]


Yes.

The important thing is that people understand that the UKIP, the Greens, the LibDems can be protest parties. The BNP are something more sinister. They know they are the bad guys.

UK, Ireland / Brits to protest against foreigners in the workforce, including Poles. [289]


The issue is the government's dispersal policy (started by the Tories). The idea was to take pressure off local councils in London by dispersing people around the country. As part of that policy, there are minimum standards of housing, very basic, but mandatory.

These standards aren't always met, and some of the places aren't much better than doss houses, but when they are met, this can harbour resentment among neighbours who are waiting for council house repairs.

As for the food vouchers - this is again something introduced by the Tories who were determined that 'asylum seekers' shouldn't work.

I knew a couple, from Iran, both doctors. They didn't live in a hostel or a council house - they rented somewhere very nice using their own assets, and put their kids in private school. They knew their claim for asylum would be accepted - it was a clean cut case - and in the meantime offered to work free at the local hospital in Leeds. They were both very senior specialists and offered to work for free partly to 'keep their hand in', partly to get used to the UK hospital system, and partly to say thank you to the country who had saved their lives. They couldn't. Not even voluntary work. They had to sit at home and receive food vouchers, which they gave away to local pensioners.

Life / Is it true that you cannot swear in public in Poland? [13]

The fine is exactly 50zl, for 'using vulgarisms in public'. It is a civil 'crime' so the fine can't be enforced except by a civil action which takes ages.

UK, Ireland / Brits to protest against foreigners in the workforce, including Poles. [289]


This is the kind of myth that leads the stupid and easily led to vote for nutty fringe parties.

The UKIP have the sense to leave this off their election material, because it simply isn't true. most 'asylum seekers' live in hostels.

UK, Ireland / Brits to protest against foreigners in the workforce, including Poles. [289]


Yes. Griffin is no Hitler, but the BNP is decidedly neo-nazi. Not just motivated by some sort of nebulous dissatisfaction about immigration levels, but ideological racists and fascists.

Just as Germans didn't know what they were getting until it was too late, some naive people may vote for them without really understanding what they believe in.

When the NSDAP rose to power, more slowly than most people realise, nobody had any idea what might come - they were a totally new thing. The only thing the voters could compare them with was the Fascisti in Italy, who in their early days seemed to be making some order out of the traditional chaos of Italian public life. In Germany they fought elections on a platform of law and order and traditional morality. They became the face of evil.

But people today are less naive (and less hungry and desperate than late '20s Germans). And when we see photos of BNP members strutting round in black uniforms or doing silly salutes, we know exactly what they're about.

The UKIP may be buffoons, but they aren't evil. The BNP know they're the bad guys.

News / Poland: In Top First 15 Countries in the WORLD by the number of CRIMES [286]


Not yet, but I've been was offered a job there, and I'm still seriously considering it. The job's in upstate New York, and I have a lot of family in NJ.


Not at all. They don't mention stuff like that. But you have, more than once.


Not by me.

News / Poland: In Top First 15 Countries in the WORLD by the number of CRIMES [286]


Hey! We agree.

And the thing is, the football players' offended feelings don't mean so much - their earnings make life sweet. It's the message shown to other Blacks. It fosters resentment anger and agression. I'm lucky - nobody has ever treated me like a second-class citizen, but sometimes think that if I was Black, I'd slit my white neighbours' throats.

How do other Americans think of Pol-Ams? I've heard about Polish jokes, but does that have any real impact? Is there much crime in Polish areas in the US?

News / Poland: In Top First 15 Countries in the WORLD by the number of CRIMES [286]


How about both?

News / Poland: In Top First 15 Countries in the WORLD by the number of CRIMES [286]


Nonsense. Where people are "from" is a matter of loyalty, emotion and geography. Not where other family members were born.


A strange thing to say. There's no suggestion he would have.

UK, Ireland / Brits to protest against foreigners in the workforce, including Poles. [289]


So far yes, according to surveys, as a protest vote by people dissatisfied with Labour, who instinctively don't trust the Tory Turnip Taliban, and have too much common sense to vote for Benito Griffin's Numpty Nazis.

Essentially though, they're opportunists (not unique among politicians) and come the election, anything can happen. One or two decent candidates though, and they seem to perform well as local councillors.

UK, Ireland / Brits to protest against foreigners in the workforce, including Poles. [289]


Most of their members and voters are certainly tools.

Food / Wolski Roasted Red Peppers - recipes [14]

Slice them. Add either blanched frozen green beans (or mangetout/petits pois) and tinned whole babycorn. Toss in a dressing of olive oil and lemon juice. A traffic light salad.

Genealogy / How hard is it to get a Polish passport? [74]

It depends on what grounds you're applying and what your connection is to PL.

Some more information would help people to answer you.

News / Poland: In Top First 15 Countries in the WORLD by the number of CRIMES [286]


Tens or hundreds of thousands sold into slavery, a few bands of people capturing them. If that's "both sides" then it's two pretty unequal sides.

News / Poland: In Top First 15 Countries in the WORLD by the number of CRIMES [286]


Hardly "back" if they've never been there.

That isn't their country.

By the same sick logic, would you tell someone to go "back" to their great-great-great grandparents country?

Like if a Polish American loses their job and needs welfare, would you tell them to go "back" to Poland?


Read the papers, watch the news. Say that to Stephen Lawrence's parents.

News / Poland: In Top First 15 Countries in the WORLD by the number of CRIMES [286]


In the matter of the slave trade, yes.


What a stupid thing to say. Do you know "most Blacks"? You must have a very big social circle.


Says more about you than me. Keep on the wagon.

News / Poland: In Top First 15 Countries in the WORLD by the number of CRIMES [286]


Whichever way it takes.


Do African Americans and Black Europeans do this?


Resourceful.


Yes.


Blacks "participated" on both sides. Whites only on one.


Who paid them to do it? Who bought them when they were finally sold?

News / Poland: In Top First 15 Countries in the WORLD by the number of CRIMES [286]


Very. But those guys have generally had it harder.

Maybe it's their turn now.

News / Poland: In Top First 15 Countries in the WORLD by the number of CRIMES [286]


A lot do that, but many


didn't. And there was never the same level of determination from some quarters to keep them down.

News / Poland: In Top First 15 Countries in the WORLD by the number of CRIMES [286]


What if it is his own country, if he was born there and knows no other?

Love / What do foreign women think of Polish men? [120]


You mention this subject an awful lot...

I knew a woman once, who wanted to marry a Polish guy. She'd never met one, but just had some romantic idea.

Sometimes I wonder how it all turned out. If she ended up disappointed or not.

USA, Canada / Sending money to Poland from the USA? [48]


It might be different sending from the US. I've used it and they take a percentage, on a sliding scale. If you send a lot, it can be expensive. The advantage is that it is more or less instantaneous.