Travel / London to Krakow travel by Road [22]


I would go that way too for sheer convenience and number of ferries daily. A friend who drives (actually Kent to Warsaw) goes (I think) Ramsgate-Dunkirk. I don't remember why, either it's cheaper, less crowded or some other reason.

News / Anti-government opposition wants to impeach Poland's President Duda [44]

No Po, you equate the Polish Constitution to the 'Nuermburg laws'. Shame on you.

News / Anti-government opposition wants to impeach Poland's President Duda [44]


And you equate the Polish Constitution to the 'Nuremburg laws'. Interesting...

News / Anti-government opposition wants to impeach Poland's President Duda [44]


Very anti-Polish in fact. And the law is the law. Kaczynski may think his gang are above the law, however they aren't.

UK, Ireland / Why English do not like Polish? [417]

Brits in Poland get much the same thing - and yes, you have to respond firmly to offensive comments. Judging and critics are fine though; it all depends on why it's said and how. Everyone is entitled no an opinion.


Well, those jobs were largely vacant before. Hard to find anyone on the dole because a migrant took their job...


Same here in Poland too - most people are OK, some are bigoted.

News / Anti-government opposition wants to impeach Poland's President Duda [44]


We'll get that when PiS are voted out. I suspect the impeachment will be underway well before then. Before that, we have the depressing spectacle of PiS digging themselves further and further into the mire. As last time.

Travel / Gdansk - where to go and what's cool to see? [25]


Kolobrzeg is a nice little town. A good beach with sea swans (but dangerous in some places for swimming - there are signs forbidding it on some parts of the beach, some decent restaurants in the resort area and a nice town square a walk away.


Plenty of those in Poland, a good one at Gdansk. Basically Stoga beach, about 2 km from the main entrance, going away from town.

History / 60th anniversary of the Poznan uprising! [60]


Not really, just a cross between a total misunderstanding of the so-called 'great man theory' of Carlyle, a bit of misunderstood Nietzsche and a heavy des of Thirties fascism.

And a failed attempt to turn the Poznan '56 commemoration into a PiS Smolensk grief-fest, probably with banners of LK, clergy dressed like Christmas trees, and a golden statue.

News / Anti-government opposition wants to impeach Poland's President Duda [44]

I think yes, the effect will be delayed. Worth remembering that PiS have a habit of turning on their own and using things from the past against them. When he's fulfilled his usefulness and JK stabs him in the back, then we'll see this again.

And a recent analysis, much publicised in Poland today, stresses how JK trusts absolutely nobody at the moment.

News / Anti-government opposition wants to impeach Poland's President Duda [44]


This will be his downfall.

News / Anti-government opposition wants to impeach Poland's President Duda [44]


Very hard to say, Crowie. He won't have an active part in Duda's impeachment, that's for sure. Partly because of his role in the EU (he needs to keep a certain distance) and partly because he would not want to stoop to PiS' level, even though they've tried to administratively attack him.

News / How will BREXIT affect the immigrants in UK and Poland. [1114]


Actually 4.9 million by the latest figures.


That's the opposite of the truth. Really, I wouldn't trust even one word from a Tory politician!


This is true, and should a deal with the rest of the EU be made, it will need voting on, almost certainly in a referendum. Any deal is likely to have all the things the Brexiteers hate: free movement of people, continuing payments, exactly the same red tape. I doubt people would choose that deal.

News / The Guardian destroys the Kaczynski twins [42]

All the predictions are coming true. BTW, this isn't photoshopped. It's real...

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News / Anti-government opposition wants to impeach Poland's President Duda [44]


And as such they have to do so in accordance with the law. If they break the law, they pay the penalty for that.

News / Anti-government opposition wants to impeach Poland's President Duda [44]


Except he wasn't.


Nor him.

PiS have to obey the law; if they don't (and they don't) they will be subject to any and ever sanction the law provides.

News / How will BREXIT affect the immigrants in UK and Poland. [1114]


Some certainly did. Others because they didn't think it would happen and wanted to express their general disgruntledness, some as a typical mid-term protest vote, others from a Little England mentality, some because of a generic dislike of abroad, and many many more because of deliberate misinformation from the media against a backdrop of a very lukewarm Remain campaign. Certainly there are no sound economic reasons for leaving, as in large part shown by Farage, Boris etc fleeing from the task of actually doing it.


Yes. Worth remembering though that the UK has around 5 million citizens living abroad and if we finally left the EU, there would be no change in migration or immigration; the same rules would apply. Plus of course the fact that immigration is good for the economy.

News / How will BREXIT affect the immigrants in UK and Poland. [1114]


The deficit in money available for public spending, healthcare, social services, education, infrastructure...


That's really going to cheer up the Brexiteers...

News / Anti-government opposition wants to impeach Poland's President Duda [44]


Very solid grounds for that; he is not above the law.

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

A good way to convert is to use a transfer service. I use Poland transfer which is good. There's also Transfer Pay.

News / How will BREXIT affect the immigrants in UK and Poland. [1114]


Looks like he really is running scared. I wonder how he'll make up the deficit...

Life / A rumour about the need to give passport copy when you buy a prepaid sim number in Poland? [23]


That's exactly what it is, and since any terrorist would be more discreet and not at all worried by the rule, the only purpose is to snoop on citizens.


Very.

News / How will BREXIT affect the immigrants in UK and Poland. [1114]

Probably because his name is mud.


Well, jobs, savings, small businesses, the right to live where you want, massive infrastructure investment in your community and so many other things make it a pretty drastic change.

Fortunately the constitutional lawyers are on the side of common sense.

News / How will BREXIT affect the immigrants in UK and Poland. [1114]


Google it; a lot of discussion at the moment.


Well, terri, you can't even change the structure of a company with less than a 66% vote, so good luck with making the biggest change in most people's lives on the basis of a 1.9% majority in a non-binding referendum...

News / How will BREXIT affect the immigrants in UK and Poland. [1114]

Why would anyone "remove the Scots vote"? Anyway, it looks like the legal case for blocking Article 50 is solid.

News / How will BREXIT affect the immigrants in UK and Poland. [1114]


Merkel however has urged caution, and the legal case to prevent leaving looks more and more solid.

History / 60th anniversary of the Poznan uprising! [60]

Trying to change the subject to get away from another PiS mess, and ignoring how roundly hated Macierewicz is (when six, yes six, predecessors of different political persuasions called him to stand down, you know something is badly amiss).

And yes, all of this is about PiS (and the clown Macierewicz in particular) trying to shift a commemoration of Poles who died in 1956) into a Smolensk grief fest against the will of the people of Poznan.

News / How will BREXIT affect the immigrants in UK and Poland. [1114]

Fortunately it looks less and less likely that we will. Certainly if there are going to be any negotiations there will need to be a vote on accepting or defecting the terms on offer before triggering Article 50 and it is unlikely the terms would either be advantageous or would quell the anxiety of those dreary individuals who get afraid when they see a Pole next door.

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


Just do a straight bank transfer. You can do it online or in your brach in the UK. You'll need the account details that you want it sending to. The fee is usually a fixed rate, not much at all.


They usually open a sub account for sterling if you ask, so he can think about currency conversion afterwards.

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

Do you want to do regular transfers or move the lot over as a one-off?

History / 60th anniversary of the Poznan uprising! [60]


That one single phrase just about encapsulates the shocking behaviour in respect (disrespect?) of the Poznan 1956 commemorations by the so-called defence minister.

For people who don't know, the solemn celebrations of the workers who lost their lives became a big issue here because Macierewicz petulantly refused to let the army take part unless he was allowed to turn it into a celebration of his conspiracy theories regarding the air accident in Smolensk (he believes it wasn't an accident).

Of course the Mayor of Poznan (a very popular and well-regarded person) wouldn't allow a serious event to become undignified in that way. He had the support of the city here and yes, it became another PiS fiasco.

In the end, common sense prevailed and it went ahead as normal, albeit withoiut the army, who the PiS 'defence minister' prevented from attending.