News / Presidential elections 2020 - your opinions about campaign, candidates [2222]

Re controlling the courts then the worst thing was makinG the Justice Minister also the Director of Prosecutions - it's an obvious and very dangerous step to using the courts to political ends,

Re leadership of Eastern Europe then it might never have been but it should have been - Poland has overtaken Hungary and Czech in wealth a few years ago, and Warsaw has become just as cosmopolitan and business like as Prague and Budapest and Vienna.

News / Presidential elections 2020 - your opinions about campaign, candidates [2222]

My 3 top reasons

Threat to democracy - especially trying to control the courts

Weakening Poland's position in Europe - Poland should be the natural leader of Eastern Europe but it has lost that role and the moderate democracies like Slovakia, Slovenia, Lithuania etc do not look up to Poland

Renationalization - I'm not opposed to keeping strategic assets in state ownership, but PiS just uses state companies to feed and water an army of untalented cronies

News / Presidential elections 2020 - your opinions about campaign, candidates [2222]

Polling now looking very close - Duda not picking up new votes at all. I'm having a few days in the countryside and see Duda posters everywhere in the villages but not very much in the small towns.

Love / POLISH WOMEN ARE PROMISCUOUS? DISCUSS. [164]

She wrote that 10 years ago so don't expect a reply - at s as guess she is enjoying a summer holiday with her husband and small kids now. Maybe you can also do something more fulfilling than trolling ?

News / Presidential elections 2020 - your opinions about campaign, candidates [2222]

I was doing well until the government forcibly shut my business with no compensation and no support.

Who cares what it was like in February ? now it is completely screwed and it is the governments fault that they were unprepared for this, had overspent on kielbasa and then wouldn't support hard working Poles.

News / Presidential elections 2020 - your opinions about campaign, candidates [2222]

Fair enough but my points still stands - if your business makes any money then PIS tax regime is no better than that of PO

News / Presidential elections 2020 - your opinions about campaign, candidates [2222]

So the real reason you will vote PiS from your home in Britain is that you don't like Muslims

You can quote those taxes because living abroad you don't pay any of them.

Working here and raising a family and employing people I can assure you that my level of tax is more or less the same. I am struggling to think of a major PiS reform that benefits business.

News / Presidential elections 2020 - your opinions about campaign, candidates [2222]

It's not so easy to reverse - once a class of people gets used to handouts it quickly is treated as a basic right rather than a benefit and that belief also travels across generations. France is a good example

Law / Putative Spouse Poland [8]

There is a status of Outative Spouse in some US states I read - it means where you are married but it turns out the marriage is invalid because one of the parties was married before, because one of them thought their husband was dead when in fact he had just disappeared and various other Wild West explanations,

Bit no that status does not exist in Poland - you have to go through some hoops to get the right paperwork to show you can get married And probably they expect other countries to have the same standards.

Just put a ring on it if you are in love - that will solve all your problems with whether you are married or not.

News / Presidential elections 2020 - your opinions about campaign, candidates [2222]

Why you staying home Kondzior ? It's fair enough but I'm surprised because I thought you were quite engaged

News / Presidential elections 2020 - your opinions about campaign, candidates [2222]

Why would it be a hostile debate if it was on TVN ? They would get the same questions but without the TVP nonsense of giving Duda the questions in advance , shaving seconds off the clock etc

News / Presidential elections 2020 - your opinions about campaign, candidates [2222]

But he's already done a debate on TVP In the first round, which was a farce as anything run by them is these days.

Fine to have it on Polssat, TVN or on the internet but TVP has no credibility - and by the way advertisers are abandoning it in droves now so it will need even more handouts from our taxes.

News / Presidential elections 2020 - your opinions about campaign, candidates [2222]

Duda is losing momentum and I think might lose. He has to get his entire vote out again to win - that's difficult to do when he has no positive messages. Going to talk to a few hundred of the converted in Konskie (A one horse town ?) instead of debating before the nation Isn't smart.

Law / Putative Spouse Poland [8]

Are there any countries that recognize such a status ?

I'm not sure what a Bona Fide belief means but standing in a church in expensive clothes and then signing a piece of paper is one of the few things I do remember about my twenties

News / Presidential elections 2020 - your opinions about campaign, candidates [2222]

And another key similarity between PiS and the PRL is that being boss of the party is a bigger job than being the elected president or prime minister - the voters are treated with contempt, though 50 percent of them are happy with it.

I think it's important that once PiS rule finishes - as it will one day - that Kaczynskis enablers in TVP, in the courts and in state owned businesses never work again and are treated as pariahs in polite society.

News / Presidential elections 2020 - your opinions about campaign, candidates [2222]

They should go ahead with the debate and put a puppet in his chair.

Why can't the debate be televised at the same time by TVP and another channel ?

News / Presidential elections 2020 - your opinions about campaign, candidates [2222]

You have been in the house too long dolno - For a lot of people the biggest issue now is where is their next paycheck coming from and why are the prices going up.

Whoever wins this election will have to fix that problem.

News / Presidential elections 2020 - your opinions about campaign, candidates [2222]

But people are voting both for anti PIS candidates - for example in local elections and in senate elections. The people who vote against PIS are younger, richer, better educated, and a clear majority of the working population. None of them are sitting around Costa Coffee claims themselves to be an elite - they just have different lifestyles and values.

They might be 48 percent of the population but they are 90 percent of the tax base and that is going to be a huge problem

Ditto people are voting democrat - more than 3m extra votes for Hillary compared to Dettol Donald. The Democrats won the last mid term elections by more than 10 million votes. I don't know how the Presidential elections will go but for sure Biden will get at least 5 million more votes than Trump. e votes come from working people, more educated people, younger people.

News / Should Polonia and expat Poles lose voting rights in Polish elections? [85]

Then they must simply extend the deadline - I'm sure that would get a fair hearing in the constitutional court.

Sure all of our friends in Chicago and wherever agree that polonia should get their voting rights

News / Presidential elections 2020 - your opinions about campaign, candidates [2222]

Duda needs another 5-6 percent to push him over the line

But he already made a huge dent in the Konfederacja support - so does he move right to mop up the rest ( which includes a lot of young voters) or go for moderation,

PiS seems to have got its vote out in the countryside quite well - strong turnout there

News / Presidential elections 2020 - your opinions about campaign, candidates [2222]

Quite a solid result for Duda - but Bosak lower than I expected and it seems the cultural right wing vote is not more than 10 percent.

Second round will be decided by less than 1 percent - very bad news for the country - we will see a pure East west old young urban rural divide - just like Brexit

News / Presidential elections 2020 - your opinions about campaign, candidates [2222]

It's lovely sunny weather and they are probably enjoying time with their loved ones rather than stuck in a darkened room trolling.

Big turnout in my town by the looks of it

News / Presidential elections 2020 - your opinions about campaign, candidates [2222]

The take fashion designer thing just shows how weird PiS are - that they spend public money on ludicrous lies.

Law / How do I verify a Polish company's existence? [249]

The information is in the thread above. It's a scam and the owner had his data stolen

News / Tesco abandon Poland [66]

It's owned by a consortium of US and European funds

But there is plenty of Polish owners retail - in food, fashion, home, gas stations etc

News / Presidential elections 2020 - your opinions about campaign, candidates [2222]

Around 30 percent of companies have benefitted from the shield and not all of those have received cash yet.

The rest are excluded by various loopholes - one of the most common being seasonal variances in their results and being too successful before the lockdown (so then the have the double whammy of seeing their taxes spent on propping up badly managed competitors).

Small businessmen were a key part of the PiS vote in 2015 and 2019 but they have been ignored by the so called shield.

News / Presidential elections 2020 - your opinions about campaign, candidates [2222]

What pathetic reasoning - they have already had 4 months of this crisis to formulate an economic response. What do we get ? Free fire engines, holiday vouchers and a focus not on the economy but on organizing postal elections

Life / Is Polish church involved in politics too much? [137]

Yes, they should be prepared for that. I go to church but less and less and when I am there I rarely her anything about empathy, love, respect etc.

Life / Is Polish church involved in politics too much? [137]

I haven't got a problem with it, they have as much right to interfere in politics us say the business lobby or trade unions and they are obviously going to support people that have similar views.

What I do object to is them receiving public money as a quid pro quo of the support.

News / Presidential elections 2020 - your opinions about campaign, candidates [2222]

Both PO and foreign intelligence services will have vetted Trzaskowski thoroughly. Voters are unlikely to care about sex scandals these days or minor drug use and PiS are never going to win a fight about corruption.

How about Duda go on Tv, explain his policies, explain why he is not a puppet and how he intends to govern in his second term. Revolutionary I know but would be more interesting than some bad Netflix rip off about a dead prostitute.