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In the two parts of Europe where I have homes, Mazowsze and Yorkshire, the foreign born population are more likely to be working and paying taxes than the non-foreign born population.


What about cutting the poorest some slack and going after the people making more money from workers wages than the workers themselves?

The OP only wanted food and clothes, and given that Poland is a Catholic country where people are morally obliged to feed the hungry and clothe the naked, his request for alms is not an unreasonable one.

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Or a productive worker.


If we started to hold everyone responsible for poor judgement, there wouldn't be enough atoms in the universe to build the necessary prisons with.

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The last time statesmen (particularly Blair and Clinton) proposed a jubilee on foreign debt, the rightwing screamed the house down because it would make their bankster backers less obscenely rich.


Elon Musk's wife would have to buy a dress for $35,000 instead of $40,000 and the middle class minor shareholders of the banks would have to shop at Carrefour instead of Piotr i Paweł. My heart bleeds for them.

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You'd see him starve?

Holding political views about borders does not need to equate to cruelty and lack of empathy for those involved.


Like half the world, not that "guilty" is a suitable word.

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He was riding a bandwagon like Horst Wessel.


Five, not three and of course people do. Why wouldn't they; this is normal across the developed world.


That is not a positive thing.


The world is not an everyone for themselves place; developed societies grow from third world level to societal prosperity by cooperation.


The idea of an Ivy League graduate going for a job at a closed cafe in Krakow once run by a dodgy guy is quite surreal.

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Or simply someone who took advantage of something available to him.

Attack the politicians, not the ordinary people. You are better than that.

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Not in Kętrzyn.

Hopefully he will have found some support. The church is quite good at helping those in need and there are also secular voluntary organisations who do a lot.

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Or at all, due to attacking Venezuelan ships, threatening to invade Greenland and making trouble with Canada.

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Who knows. Politics is politics.


Hard to know why you think the SPD is "far left" (have you had some of PAK's very few brain cells transplanted in or maybe twitched t( curtains at the wrong part of the Overton Window.?) and even harder to know why this (very well publicised) story Is anything to do with either left or right. It seems to be about a disturbed teenager attacking an adopted parent.


Probably the same way that she had a professional career, not that attending a monthly meeting in a place with 22,000 people is especially onerous.


She's still Mayor.

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Rubbish.


Died decades before it was created.


You OK, hun?


The tens of millions of Protestants would foil your dastardly plan.

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Belgium has always had chaotic politics.

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That is not a positive thing.


It very much does.

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Of course; look at Switzerland, Luxembourg, Singapore, etc..

There's another aspect too, one ignored by some. It's also about giving extra support to the kids from the poorest families, making sure all kids are well fed at school regardless of their families' ability to pay, and providing good healthcare and social services support so as few children as possible are disadvantaged.


Our recidivist hasn't thought this one through very well. Take the wealthiest and poorest 5% out of the stats since they are outliers (basically the extremely rich and the homeless) and you will see a definite correlation between educational attainment and wealth.


Exactly. There isn't a farmer's boy Einstein in any history book of course. His father was an engineer who co-owned a factory called Elektrotechnische Fabrik J. Einstein & Cie with a family member. Until they sold up and moved to a palace in Italy. Einstein attended a decent school in Munich as well.

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It's hard to know what this company can do that people can't do themselves.

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Or just ask around, either neighbours or people from the local church. Somebody will know somebody.

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Not that they'd steal dishwashers, washing machines or even flush toilets from villages their orcs went into.

Or several thousand children either.

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More centrist than anything.

That and the fact that both the church and moderate politics are informed by the teaching of the gospels.

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Just about. Living in a house bought with his money but in someone else's name to avoid tax. Nowhere near the constituency he's supposed to represent and coming out with increasingly nasty stuff, ost.y across the Atlantic where he makes money giving lectures. Maybe he need it now he's lost his income from regularly appearing on r*SSia Today.

His main donor goes on trial this month for accepting bribes from r*SSia.

Meanwhile, several of his local councillors who unfortunately got in during the local elections are awaiting criminal trial. Usually about money.

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Beaming at them out of their tv sets as they sit in their cramped concrete flats watching the rich spend their money.

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Quite, and sadly so many public utilities are still in the hands of 'private equity' companies with anonymous foreign shareholders. Some of them borrowed heavily and indebted the businesses so they could pay dividends (some paid 100% dividend) and then expected the country to keep paying them money so the water and electricity still flow. Theft really, and as much as part of the Tories legacy as the food banks (7 existed when the Tories took office, 2500 existed when they left).


It will, however we're the party who achieved the NHS, National Insurance, two day weekends, paid leave from work, maternity and paternity leave, pretty well all health and safety at work legislation, council housing, school dinners and equal pay for women; all that against the opposition from the right wing.

Nevertheless, in just a year, we've introduced an Employment Rights Bill giving day-one protection from unfair dismissal and stronger rights for workers, begun renationalising passenger rail through the Rail Nationalisation Bill, launched Great British Energy as a publicly owned clean-power company, ended "no-fault" evictions through renter reforms, delivered a major October 2024 Budget with new investment in housing, infrastructure, and public services funded partly by higher taxes on wealth and non-doms, introduced the Warm Homes Plan to lower energy bills, means-tested Winter Fuel Payments to focus help on poorer pensioners, and eased prison overcrowding through an early-release scheme.

That's quite a lot really; more than that charlatan Farage has ever done or tried to do. He can't eve; be bothered to show up in his constituency, and said he'd never met the r*SSian ambassador despite being photographed next to him grinning at a reception given in his honour at the r*SSian embassy.

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Fortunately our voters tend to.

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In a way that would be good since it will bog them down nicely.

Better yet if they were 200 miles away, back in r*SSia.

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Everyone should.

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It wasn't though, was it...


Less than that. They just leave a lot of the corpses unretrieved for dogs and other animals to eat. It saves them having to pay compensation to the families.

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Fortunately we didn't.

New rightwing parties are always good though since they split the conservative vote nicely.