UK, Ireland / Polish lorry driver arrested for smuggling 9 million cigarettes [64]

That just looks like libertarian stuff from that guy who used to write for 'Spiked'.

The reality is that the numbers of smokers has plummeted in the UK, and within Europe there's a correlation between tobacco prices and the number of smokers.

And anti-smuggling operations are important for this - the excise revenue from the remaining smokers is important to society.

UK, Ireland / Polish lorry driver arrested for smuggling 9 million cigarettes [64]


Read the thread.


They do - it's been a declared policy for decades and is working.

UK, Ireland / Polish lorry driver arrested for smuggling 9 million cigarettes [64]


Tobacco addiction. The high price and the restrictions on smoking in the UK has reduced the number of smokers dramatically.


A few places in Warsaw sell them anyway, nasty things from Moldova. The idea is that the huge amount of money spend on hunting down cigs smuggled through the internal borders would be concentrated on stopping them coming through the external border and used rigourously. It wouldn't be nice locking up the little old Polish ladies who sell them in Wola and taking their real estate and pension as a mandatory penalty, however it would be a very effective deterrent.


No, it isn't - even a very bad idea, one that would cripple economies and styme free movement.

UK, Ireland / Polish lorry driver arrested for smuggling 9 million cigarettes [64]


By smuggling and selling wholesale to shops? One or two people selling a few extra cartons isn't the end of the world - like shoplifting by the poor, however when the total sold commercially without excise is added up, think how many schools, how many cops' salaries how many nurses that lost excise pays for.

UK, Ireland / Polish lorry driver arrested for smuggling 9 million cigarettes [64]


That sounds like some HR thing. I doubt firms are that 'out of pocket', not least because they make more money from the staff being at work than the staff get in wages.

When I used to work in an office years ago, in the days just after switching from ashtrays on the desk to smoking rooms, we just used to add 30 minutes on our timesheets to cover smoke breaks. It worked.

Cigarette smuggling in Europe is a major problem though - it deprives society (rather more important than some uptight HR person's crabby beancounting) of excise revenue, money which is used to support the most vulnerable in our communities, to pay for schools, hospitals, day care centres etc. Poland is sometimes the origin of contraband cigarettes for smaller scale smuggling operations and sometimes the conduit for larger scale operations (like this one, involving cigs from further east) and this is a problem.

Law enforcement officials in Poland have to concentrate on contraband cigs and booze being sold in Poland, so can't and don't divert resources to sthings being taken further west.

An identical level of excise duty across Europe would be a better system, and allow countries to work together and properly inspect lorries coming into Europe from Belarus/Ukraine/Moldova/Russia etc.

News / Poles say a big YES to our European Union [996]

No sign of that - and within Poland, support is particularly strong.

News / Poles say a big YES to our European Union [996]


You keep repeating yourself now, in screaming capitals.

It's off-topic too. The topic of the thread is the exceptionally strong support that the EU has among Poles.

And you still haven't found the latest poll showing PiS falling.

Check out the latest figures on the parlementarny website - they also show PiS falling. Far less than half the % support that the EU gets.

News / Poles say a big YES to our European Union [996]

There you go again. Check out the latest poll - PiS are on 33% and falling. Support for the EU remains high at 88%.

News / Poles say a big YES to our European Union [996]


After a quick search online, especially on google and in dictionaries, it looks like you've invented a new word, Snotty.

Why not have a look on google, for the latest polls showing PiS falling to 33%.

And see if you can find the one showing that Poles strongly support EU membership.

News / Poles say a big YES to our European Union [996]


There you go again, Snotty. Check out the latest figures - PiS support is at 33% and falling.

Our EU still enjoys 88% support in Poland.

However much you hate the facts.

News / Poles say a big YES to our European Union [996]


The newest polls (published today) show that PiS support is down to 33% and falling.

Our EU still enjoys 88% support in Poland.

Life / Cheap hair salons for men in Warsaw? [16]

ul. Krasińskiego 10 (put it in google maps), just off pl. Wilsona (the part of Krasińskiego going down to the river). Between Bank PKO BP and the sushi restaurant. 25zl (but give her 30). They're very good, and you never have to wait long.

News / Poles say a big YES to our European Union [996]


Hard to know how Poland can resist itself.


Collapsing now.

News / Poles say a big YES to our European Union [996]


Yes, democracy.

Language / IS "MURZYN" word RACIST? [686]

Or any one of thousands of other works of fiction aimed at that age group.

News / Poles say a big YES to our European Union [996]


So they should have restated the same sanctions on different notepaper? The EU don't do that.

News / Poles say a big YES to our European Union [996]


Nobody really does. They guy is a nut - as for the EU, having him as a Europosel is a real embarassment for PL, due to his antics.

News / Poles say a big YES to our European Union [996]


So a domestic terrorist then.


Another domestic terrorist.


A typical Korwin-Mikke fanboy.

News / Poles say a big YES to our European Union [996]


Plus that bomb scare in Warsaw that someone phoned in a while ago.

News / Poles say a big YES to our European Union [996]


Something the EU ought to get involved with, specifically a woman's right to choose.

News / Poles say a big YES to our European Union [996]


They'd just imposed unprecedented sanctions. So not inactive - unless you suggest they declare war.

News / Poles say a big YES to our European Union [996]


Plenty of that needed in Poland, according to some. Nevertheless, dignity is better than charity, and EU membership has provided jobs and an income for a huge number of people.


You are certainly repetitive.


Eloquent, and untrue on both counts, one suspects.

News / Poles say a big YES to our European Union [996]


It seems to be one issue that preoccupies several people here.

News / Poles say a big YES to our European Union [996]


A very dodgy source for anything. Basically extreme propaganda, long ago discredited.


Good.


There you go again. I suppose you've got plenty of 'leisuretime' to sit home and think bons mots like that up.

Those who ex-President Sarkozy described as "people who have to get up early" tend to focus on more than one issue.

News / Poles say a big YES to our European Union [996]


There you go again - putting words into peoples mouths, seeing things that aren't there. Silly really, it doesn't work.


88% of Polish Citizens support the EU.


No. There are no 'no-go' areas in Europe. That silly right-wing myth was debunked long long ago. You've been told already, but evidently prefer to perpetuate myths.

News / Poles say a big YES to our European Union [996]


Which is the point of the thread. Not some monomania about certain groups and projection by the culturally feeble.


No - as I told you, that right-wing myth was debunked long long ago.

Language / IS "MURZYN" word RACIST? [686]


Exactly. A messy argument, more about reaction than common sense or being positive[


There you go again. It isn't only about what 'you' say, unless you have a private language. It's about every time a word is used to objectify.


Indeed.

Language / IS "MURZYN" word RACIST? [686]


That's what it's all about really.


A language isn't its etymology - it's its use. Very very few people are even slightly aware about the derivation of the words they use. Far more are aware of the context in which they use them, their intent in selecting that lexeme, and the effect it may have on their listener or reader.

Language / IS "MURZYN" word RACIST? [686]


Entirely out of context (and as abuse). So obviously offensive. A weak example too.


Or simply have the good manners to use language in order to specifically avoid causing offence. You might actually feel a better person if you try to choose words and phrases to affirm and be positive