Law / Buying a USED CAR in Poland, my personal experiences and TRAPS to avoid !! [133]


It's basically a term used to describe the poorer eastern provinces as opposed to the wealthier northern/western ones. Podlasie, Podkarpackie, Świętokrzyskie and Lubelskie are usually the ones included, with the rest being a matter of debate. It's also a way to describe conservative leaning provinces as opposed to liberal learning ones.

Law / Buying a USED CAR in Poland, my personal experiences and TRAPS to avoid !! [133]

Some of the roads in Dolnoslaskie are horrific, agreed. I don't know what it's like now, but the DK36 from Rawicz to Lubin was in a shocking state a couple of years ago. Likewise, the DK35 from the Czech border to Swidnica is also in very, very poor shape.

It's odd, because many roads in "Polska B" are in fantastic shape, not only the DK roads.

Genealogy / What are common Polish character traits? [417]


In Poland, absolutely not. Word of honour means nothing. A friend puts it well - he's done business for millions of Euro in Ireland on a handshake, but he wouldn't do business in Poland for 2zł on a handshake.


Wouldn't agree with this either. They tend to run away at the sign of trouble, or blame everyone but themselves.


Oh, definitely. They score very, very high for this. Seems to be a general Slavic thing though - which makes it all the weirder that they're not very good at customer service. You'd think with their generous hospitality, they would be fantastic with customers.

News / Poland's PiS party members and crime [346]

I'm just amazed that you're doing everything to deflect from the fact that PiS have appointed a man that lost his driving licence twice to head up the road transport division.

News / Poland's PiS party members and crime [346]

Again, nothing to do with PiS and crime. Let's stick to the topic, here.

News / Poland's PiS party members and crime [346]

I'm not really sure what this has to do with PiS being the party of crime.

News / Poland's PiS party members and crime [346]

Polonius, Polonius...this isn't about PO. It's about the criminality of PiS members.

News / Poland's PiS party members and crime [346]

The headlines just keep writing themselves...


wprost.pl/ar/525551/Dwukrotnie-tracil-prawo-jazdy-W-rzadzie-PiS-zajmie-sietransportem-drogowym

Bwhahahaha. How many criminals can PiS possibly put into government?

And more to the point, to lose your licence in Poland, you have to be an insanely bad driver.

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


And Kukiz?

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


So if this is true, why haven't they held Duda to account for what he did?

See Polonius, these sort of statements are only meaningful if PiS are willing to actually enforce it equally for all. In this case, we can clearly see that all men are equal, just some are more equal than others.

And yes, a soft graduate is one without hard skills - for instance, political science, sociology, history, etc etc. Gowin was very clear that he regarded the future as being science based, which is very very sensible.

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


Poor show, Polonius. The villa was left in that state by Lech Kaczyński.


Doesn't mean very much, they tend to keep out of partisan politics.


And you honestly think that they won't simply agree an alternative form of compensation?


Utterly unbelievable. Within one week, they're already stamping all over the Constitution.

Having said that, the most interesting thing from this past week has been Gowin. He's already made it crystal clear that he intends to bring reform to the university sector, including bringing genuine competition between public and private universities for state funds, as well as funding less in the humanities and concentrating on science. Given that PiS are mostly made up of "soft" graduates, this hasn't gone down well at all.

News / The Left wing (not-so Slow) death in Poland [120]


If it's so strong, why do they have anything to do with anyone that was a member of the PZPR? It's just a facade, given that their links to the PZPR are a lot stronger than they care to admit.


PO never claimed to be strongly anti-communist. They're not hypocrites, unlike PiS.

News / Poland's PiS party members and crime [346]


Why is it that it's not a threat to the PiS scam machine, as personified by Duda?


Then start a thread about it.

News / The Left wing (not-so Slow) death in Poland [120]


You don't get it, do you? This is not about PO, this is about PiS claiming to be "strongly anti-communist".

News / Poland's PiS party members and crime [346]


Destroying a monument doesn't take much effort. If anything, it shows him to be rather small minded.


Yes, we all know that you regard a fair and independent legal system as being a threat to Poland.

Anyway, this thread is about PiS members and crime, not PO.

News / Poland's PiS party members and crime [346]

Now now Gregy. I'm aware that you were brought up to not see the criminal actions taking place in order to preserve your father's Party membership, but you really don't need to pretend here. The facts aren't in doubt : Kamiński is a convicted criminal.

News / Poland's PiS party members and crime [346]


There are plenty of examples on here.

But nothing is better than Duda actively pardoning Kamiński, which means that he admits his guilt.

News / Poland's PiS party members and crime [346]

I suppose it's entirely in line with his career. He would be entirely used to being told what to do by political bosses, so he's probably the right man for the job in the eyes of PiS.

Strange how Polonius is normally so quick to talk about child molesting, but he's gone silent here.

All goes to show how PiS, for all their talk of being anti-Communist, are actually incredibly pro-Communist when it comes down to it. Couldn't they find a single prosecutor that started his/her career after 1990?

News / The Left wing (not-so Slow) death in Poland [120]


Poor Levi. If you actually read what you linked to, you'd see that Gazeta Wyborcza wasn't bribed at all, and it was in fact some renegade that tried to suggest that if Agora paid the SLD, they would get the law changed in their favour. 11 years on, it's obvious that there was no actual corruption there.

Could you at least try and post about something that you actually know about, as opposed to reading Wikipedia?

By the way, Gazeta Wyborcza isn't socialist, and the 2001-2005 SLD is widely considered to be a centre-right government, not least because of the way that they committed troops to Iraq and their right wing economic policy.

News / Poland's PiS party members and crime [346]

Yes, it indeed seems as if they chose the right man for the job.

Notice how the usual PiS-apologists completely fail to address the issue and instead resort to pointing fingers at PO.

News / Poland's PiS party members and crime [346]

Again, nothing to do with PiS and crime.

Why am I not surprised that you support a PZPR-era prosecutor who chose to ignore the crimes committed by a paedophile priest?

News / Poland's PiS party members and crime [346]

I don't know where is best to post this, but this is exactly the kind of people that PiS consider to be appropriate legal representatives.

PiS appointed the new chairman of the Commission of Justice and Human Rights, Stanisław Piotrowicz.


wiadomosci.gazeta.pl/wiadomosci/1,114871,19209412,nowy-szef-sejmowej-komisji-praw-czlowieka-bronil-ksiedza-ktory.html?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=SM&utm_campaign=FB_Gazeta

It gets worse, however.


In short : PiS feel that it's appropriate for a Communist prosecutor to be leading a commision dealing with Justice and Human Rights.

You can't make this stuff up :D

News / Poland's PiS party members and crime [346]


Forum's waiting for you, Polonius.


To be honest, I've only voted for PO twice - and that was to remove Grobelny from power in Poznań. Apart from that, they're merely the lesser of two evils. Almost everyone was against Grobelny in the 2nd round last year, and even PiS refused to endorse him over the PO candidate.

News / Poland's PiS party members and crime [346]


Happens all the time with controversial meetings on both sides of the political spectrum.


As I said, it goes on all the time. Behemoth had a concert cancelled by a university in Poznań in exactly the same way. Personally, I find it sad that anything is being cancelled, but Polish universities seem to embrace the mundane. What's worse is that students themselves are often leading the way when it comes to demanding censorship of anything that they don't agree with - and it goes both ways.

Sorry Polonius, but this has nothing to do with PiS and crime. The fact of the week is that Duda pardoned a criminal, Kamiński, and that criminal is now responsible for Poland's secret services.

News / Poland's PiS party members and crime [346]


That has nothing to do with PiS and crime.


It was made clear at the time that he had nothing to do with it, and he was actually quite angry at the secret services for doing so. However, it was also very clear that PO had nothing to do with it.


Here you go again, pretending that football hooligans are ordinary fans.


Any evidence of that?


In other words, they'll be used against the political opposition. And even if they completely overstep the mark, it doesn't matter because Duda will pardon them anyway.

Never fear. When PiS lose control of the government, some of them will be going to prison for a very, very long time.

News / Poland's PiS party members and crime [346]

Good quote here.


thenews.pl/1/9/Artykul/229376,Polish-opposition-slams-presidents-pardoning-of-former-security-chief

This whole thing is a massive setback for democracy and transparency. It's now clearly obvious that it's "one law for them, one rule for everyone else".

News / Poland's PiS party members and crime [346]


It shows a lot about you that you think that the courts were influenced by politicians. Did you learn that on your father's knee?


Given that it was PiS that was known for threatening the independence of the legal system, and that Ziobro has made countless quotes in the past about how the legal system is there to serve the government, one rather thinks that you're getting confused.

Either way, it's academic. Kamiński is officially a criminal.

News / Poland's PiS party members and crime [346]


No, you're just trying to divert away from the real issue - that a convicted criminal is in charge of the security services in Poland. Bringing up these names is meaningless - the topic is about PiS and crime, not what happened 60 years ago.

If you want to start such a thread, do so, but this is about the fact (made official today) that Kamiński is a criminal.

News / Poland's PiS party members and crime [346]


Hahaha. Stop trying to compare Kamiński (a convicted criminal in an independent court in democratic Poland) with those two. It's rather insulting.

Imagine that PiS have stooped so low as to put a convicted criminal in charge of the intelligence services.

News / Poland's PiS party members and crime [346]


He's guilty. You can't pardon an innocent man.

Deal with it Gregy, there's a convicted criminal at the heart of the PiS government.