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szczecinianin   
1 Dec 2013
UK, Ireland / Why can't unemployed Polish people on benefits just leave UK and go home please? [240]

That's a bit insulting. Do you imagine yourself to be harder working and better educated than myself?

About learning the language, I know enough to get paid for translating Polish.

Sure you know some 'lazy' Brits. Have you never met their Polish equivalents? If not, then you don't really know Poland and Poles, do you.
szczecinianin   
1 Dec 2013
UK, Ireland / Why can't unemployed Polish people on benefits just leave UK and go home please? [240]

Wrong. It's the truth. You only need to live and work in the UK to see that.

I've lived and worked in the UK. Have you lived and worked in Poland?

There is an underclass in the UK who make no attempt to be part of society and have no intention of working - this is the biggest problem in the UK.

There is also an underclass in Poland. What do you imagine they are like?
szczecinianin   
1 Dec 2013
UK, Ireland / Why can't unemployed Polish people on benefits just leave UK and go home please? [240]

So you would just pay the British unemployed to do nothing indefinitely and import foreigners to do the work. That doesn't make a great deal of sense.

If you are critical of those unable to speak foreign languages, may I ask whether you can speak a foreign language yourself?
szczecinianin   
29 Nov 2013
UK, Ireland / Why can't unemployed Polish people on benefits just leave UK and go home please? [240]

Make some comparisons then, but it has to be like with like.

The most obvious would be North v South Korea.

How about Hong Kong under the beastly Brits vs mainland China?

West v East Germany?

I don't really think there's much of a sensible debate to be had, tbh.

You seem to be dodging my questions. Have you ever been to post-communist Europe?

This thread is wandering away from the topic.
szczecinianin   
28 Nov 2013
UK, Ireland / Why can't unemployed Polish people on benefits just leave UK and go home please? [240]

No government nothing to get in the way of the free market so all should be good after all you said that rich countries tend to have less government. Are you not astounded that Somalia isnt thriving

Your points don't make sense. I've never stated I wanted to see no government, as I'm not some kind of anarchist. All you are capable of doing is stringing together a set of strawman arguments, which you, of course, win. Well done, you.

If you imagine socialism and government intervention to be the answer, may I ask how much time you have spent in post-communist Europe?
szczecinianin   
28 Nov 2013
UK, Ireland / Why can't unemployed Polish people on benefits just leave UK and go home please? [240]

Haulage companies are just an example of subsidies that free marketeers like. In places like Dublin or London the entire economy is propped up with state subsidies. Without benefits these places would stop generating wealth.

The richest countries tend to be those where the state does the least. This may come as a shock to you, but as Margaret Thatcher rightly stated, "there's no such thing as public money." The state can only redistribute wealth, not create it itself.

The free movement of capital means the free movement of people that's what the EU is designed for. With the lack of an economic policy beyond nationalise debt, privatise profit it's not really surprising that people have been ignored. The crazy economic nonsense of the 80s is responsible for this mess.

The EU is an unaccountable, multinational, corporatist, bureaucratic mess that I would like to see the UK break free from. It's 'big government' on steroids.
szczecinianin   
28 Nov 2013
UK, Ireland / Why can't unemployed Polish people on benefits just leave UK and go home please? [240]

No-one (sensible) is suggesting road haulage companies pay for roads themselves. Much of the country's infrastructure, security and so on is the responsibility of the state. As is basic health and education for most people for the foreseeable future.

However, I don't really see the sense in importing workers from other countries, while simultaneously paying your own citizens to do nothing. Do you?
szczecinianin   
28 Nov 2013
UK, Ireland / Why can't unemployed Polish people on benefits just leave UK and go home please? [240]

It would be strange to remove subsidies from the unemployed yet retain them for farmers and most commerce for example

Generally speaking, farmers grow things and industry produces things.

However, I do know that in some circumstances farmers are paid for leaving their fields idle.

Personally, I'm in favour of a minimalist state.

As far as possible, I would remove state help from agriculture and industry.
szczecinianin   
27 Nov 2013
News / PO-PiS again neck and neck [248]

Their views are possibly more representative than those of PO - it's a close run thing

Personally, I don't like PiS any more than you do. However, unlike yourself, I'm not going to attempt to convince myself and others that Poland is as I would like it to be.
szczecinianin   
26 Nov 2013
News / PO-PiS again neck and neck [248]

moved from another thread

What's interesting is that you have obviously little idea about the views in Poland. As much as you'd like to think otherwise, PiS and their opinions are very much in minority in Poland.

Don't PiS currently top the opinion polls?
szczecinianin   
25 Nov 2013
UK, Ireland / The Changing Attitude Towards the Poles in Ireland [21]

I'm saying that the Irish don't have any issues with immigration, or so I've been told.

And why have you changed my name in your quote?

Can I pick a name for you?
szczecinianin   
25 Nov 2013
UK, Ireland / Why can't unemployed Polish people on benefits just leave UK and go home please? [240]

georgie_96:
do the jobs us english are far to lazy to do.

if you want to peddle that new labour bollox, speak for yourself

It's extremely annoying, I agree.

Polish people are happy to work for minimum wage in the UK. Six quid buys you far more then six PLN (according to everyone other than Delphi, of course).

No doubt Bangladeshis would be overjoyed at the chance to earn six PLN an hour (or less) in Poland. And if they arrived in Poland en masse, no doubt they would complain about 'lazy' Poles who refused to do agricultural work for a pittance.