News / Should Poland exit the EU immediately? [377]


Nope. I simply don't mix with expats at all.

I've only heard positive things about EU membership from Poles - except for one slightly guy who's a fairly prominent Libertarian and even he admits the good things that membership has brought!

News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]


So hunky-dory then for them to break in during the middle of the night!


Says so much more about you than him.

And still the pro-democracy rallies continue, a broad cross-section of Polish society are coming out on the streets, in the parks, in the towns and (maybe soon) on the beaches - all to stand up against the sort of nonsense in your post. Heartwarming that people are doing it, sad that PiS and their ultra-nationalist tendency are so destructive.

News / URGENT: Chechens refugees found a Islamic State in Poland [37]


I don't think anyone agrees with it. It is indeed a cooked-up story.

Not worth having a thread about it; especially one prefaced with the word 'URGENT'

News / URGENT: Chechens refugees found a Islamic State in Poland [37]

Probably because it's a load of tosh, Levi.

News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]


Of NATO premises?

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News / Should Poland exit the EU immediately? [377]


I've only heard the positive stuff, but the change here since EU entry is palpable - it's made a real difference for the better.

News / Should Poland exit the EU immediately? [377]


That's a given. Amazing what an absolutely jaundiced view some people from outside have.

It's true that people in the Ukraine want EU membership, albeit it's a far off dream for them, but there isn't a cat in hell's chance of them being annexed in Poland, and nor does Poland have the wherewithal (or international support) to do it.


Quite. Through 4 decades of cold wat they certainly weren't going to do any such thing, at Yalta, their leader sold Poland to the USSR and very few of their citizens could even find it on a map.

One reason the Polish public support the EU so strongly.

News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]


Quite - that polirical tendency has a reputation for crying wolf anyway, so the current crop of dirty tricks will mean that they can get away with less, and should one of their lame excuses ever in the future be half true, nobody will ever believe them.

I don't thing PiS have fully cottoned on how the Internet works. When they do, they'll probably try to ban it.

News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]


It's actually very much on topic, since the topic involves the current crop of dirty tricks and anti-constitutional behaviour by terrified PiS supporters. Basically they're wrong-footed on every level by the pro-democracy movement and whereas here they can only resort to abuse, in real life as we saw with today's bomb scare and last week's hacking scandal,,Poland's post-election political scene has become very dirty indeed.

News / Should Poland exit the EU immediately? [377]

Won't happen, Crowie, won't happen. Most people here support being part of both of those.

News / Previous Poland's government corrupting the media. [125]


That one is a real smoking gun and I suspect we'll see much more of that sort of thing as we have already today.

News / Should Poland exit the EU immediately? [377]


Spot on. Neither of the major parties have suggested for a second that a Brexit would lead to deportations.

And in the even far less likely event of Poland leaving the Union there is equally no chance of deportations.

News / Should Poland exit the EU immediately? [377]


One of the highest levels of support among member states.

Whatever various Americans with scant connections to Poland and no real understanding of life here think, Poland is not about to leave.

News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

Looking in the mirror when you wrote that? Just a weak mirror, by the way, of the various dirty tricks that we've seen.

Back on-topic please

News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

Now that, Pol3 is beyond clutching at straws - clutching at hairs from Kaczynski's cats maybe..,

News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

Your post, Po3, is a prime example of such nuttiness.


He had a duplicate key cut and turned up in the middle of the night with goons.

Soon, Po3, soon, sanity will triumph and Macierewicz and Kaczynski will be out.

News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

If anyone isn't up to date with the sheer nuttiness going on in Poland at the moment, this article is a good one:


theguardian/world/2015/dec/18/polish-military-police-raid-nato-centre-warsaw

News / Should Poland exit the EU immediately? [377]


Exactly. All on topic, all accurate. It seems like some people who abandoned Poland long ago would prefer it to be like the old days before all the billions in infrastructure funding.


Roads, trains, trams, buses, hospitals, schools - and too many other things to put in one post.

News / Should Poland exit the EU immediately? [377]

Now do t be disingenuous - you know (or perhaps you don't, having been away from Poland so long) how well the economy improved before (obviously with considerable help from Europe, Poland being the largest net recipient of EU subsidies) and what a mess the current (hopefully temporary) regime are in, subsidies or not.

News / Should Poland exit the EU immediately? [377]


Plus of course their inability to deliver on their promises, like last time.

News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

Google it, Po3, Google it

News / Should Poland exit the EU immediately? [377]


Figures and statistics are just another topic that they can only lie about.

News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]


'Fat-shaming' now, Po3?

I wonder how many of the PiS flappers could do with losing a kilo or two...

News / Should Poland exit the EU immediately? [377]

Yes, it is strongly supported (no matter how you may personally dislike it) - in fact approval ratings for the EU are particularly strong in Poland.

News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]


Yet another scandal and there will almost certainly be one. He hasn't done well at all. I wonder what his approval rating is.

News / Should Poland exit the EU immediately? [377]

The idea of a country where EU membership is strongly supported and which is the largest net recipient of EU funding leaving is bizarre.

Life / All Things Christmassy in Poland [332]


And always with a lump of coal. I do this in Poland too.

News / Throwing away the constitution in Poland? [626]


And the rest think he's his cat.

News / Throwing away the constitution in Poland? [626]


The writing's on the wall already for both him and the party leader he is a puppet of.

News / Throwing away the constitution in Poland? [626]

Nostradamus, are we?

Based on last time PiS crept into office on a low turnout, it was heartwarming to see the large turnout that got rid of them. The pro-democracy demonstrations across Poland suggest this may well happen again.