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Joined: 23 Nov 2006 / Male ♂ 		Last Post: 22 Feb 2016
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Posts: Total: 634 / Live: 547 / Archived: 87 		From: Warsaw

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Varsovian   
31 Jan 2013
News / Polish Business Centre Club hammers another nail in Blair's coffin [35]

I was going out with a miner's daughter in 1984, so my views were coloured somewhat.
But although she was far from squeeky clean, Blair's govt reeked of corruption and bankrupted the country to a degree that would have impressed Harold Wilson.
Varsovian   
30 Jan 2013
News / Polish Business Centre Club hammers another nail in Blair's coffin [35]

I'm frankly appalled that jon357 and Wroclaw Boy have stooped so low. Truly, it gets no worse.

Apart from blood on his hands - the blood of hundreds of thousands of innocents, that is - he bankrupted the UK. So, I can see that jon357 and Wroclaw Boy reject all concept of the most basic human right - the right to life. He launched an illegal invasion of a sovereign country - Iraq - without any grounds whatsoever, other than might is right.

An astonishingly vile man, Blair.

And he massively abused the public finance initiative, giving his fat cat friends in the city loads of money while screwing public services. Try looking up Pinderfields Hospital, Jon. Your home town. My sister-in-law has to work in that PFI monstrosity that will be crippled with debt for decades.
Varsovian   
25 Jan 2013
News / Man taken to court for abusing Poland's president [35]

Jon357 always has to bring up something to defend his idols in Platforma.
Errrm - a point of information: it's the law wot's guilty here. However, the orders to make arrests like this come from the politicians.
Varsovian   
21 Jan 2013
History / Judge Tuleya mother was in SB [74]

A relative hid Bierut's adjutant during the war. His grandchildren are still benefiting - backs needed scratching, favours returning. Old boys' network, Polish style.
Varsovian   
18 Jan 2013
Food / Where can I buy lamb in Poland? [89]

I once bought a lamb from a farmer in Janowek near Wierzbno ... good, cheap too
Poles are silly - they think pork doesn't stink but that lamb does. Takes all sorts.
Varsovian   
10 Jan 2013
History / Should we glorify Polish secondary female characters from history? [36]

Queens, as monarchs, obviously get their fair share of coverage in historical studies.

Should Poland discover more Marie Curies, to advance the cause of wimmin's rights?

When I was a kid, Florence Nightingale was done in a lesson, but that was about it. We didn't cover Winston Churchill at all. Nowadays in England, you can scarcely set foot in a school without knowing copious amounts about a mixed-race boarding house keeper called Mary Seacole, who served good food and drink in the Crimea and helped out occasionally with the wounded. Doubtless, a decent enough women - Florence Nightingale gave her some money when she fell on hard times - but ...

Famous Polish women to glorify - errm ... Ewa Kłobukowska?
Varsovian   
10 Jan 2013
Life / News on driving in Poland [54]

Rostowski swiped some historic books from a mate of mine in London. Sorry, to be exact - borrowed and never returned, feigning ignorance when asked.

It shows his attitude to the property of others.
Varsovian   
31 Dec 2012
Real Estate / Buying a farm in Poland [14]

You would get an EU subsidy though - my wife does.
Also - find out what class of land it is, as this opens up / closes off some sorts of production if you want to be a bit more daring in your choice of crop.
Varsovian   
28 Dec 2012
News / Today's release of UK govt papers under the 30 year rule - JPII and the US look bad [18]

I must admit I'd forgotten that his trip to the UK in 1982 was very nearly cancelled due to this opposition to Britain's response to the Argentine invasion. He probably feared a Communist takeover in Argentina if they lost. Realpolitik. However, he couldn't resist an historic trip to England - where Catholics had acted for so long as an Al-Qaeda grouping. The RC church has been ranting like an enraged child for centuries because the weakling Pope Clement VII was unable to grant a divorce for military reasons.

It's sounds strange now, but before that trip I hadn't actually realised the Catholics were still going in England!

Incidentally, I didn't know until today that the Americans planned to tip the Argentinians off about British plans to re-take South Georgia. Astonishing duplicity. History still makes your jaw drop sometimes.
Varsovian   
28 Dec 2012
News / WOSP Poland charity - is it value for money? [60]

Thanks.
72% isn't bad at all, for example Caritas Australia manages 78%

Another question - I hear from medical staff that the equipment is loaned, not donated. Do you know anything about this? If it's loaned, this would throw up other issues.
Varsovian   
28 Dec 2012
News / WOSP Poland charity - is it value for money? [60]

Please!
Does someone have some facts? I mean numbers.
In the UK charities declare what percentage of their revenue goes on admin and costs etc
You lot seem to be entirely uninformed - how depressing!

(Who's Maybach?)
Varsovian   
28 Dec 2012
News / Failures of Poland and Tusk`s government [191]

EDF - doesn't Gordon Brown's brother work for them? Wasn't he working for them when Labour was surreptitiously helping them into the market?
Varsovian   
28 Dec 2012
News / WOSP Poland charity - is it value for money? [60]

I hear worrying things about poor value for money, the charity's founder employing relatives and using the whole thing for self-promotion, money from the charity going towards funding a festival.

Surely not.

Can anybody fill me in on this?

I'm interested in stuff like: what % of revenue goes to real charitable causes (e.g. a pop concert isn't one in my books) and is the medical equipment bought and donated to hospitals or are there any shananigans involved?

And the first person to bring politics into this is an idiot! I want some facts here, not tribal chanting.
Varsovian   
20 Dec 2012
News / RUSSIA TO MAKE PUBLIC THE KATYN FILES... [274]

[Moved from]: Wlad the 5th of Poland, died 1997

An acquaintance met his brother in London - embarrassed at the family connection ...

Often wore flamboyant 'regal' clothes in public.

Importantly, he issued (in 1943) the first English-language document on the Katyn massacre - for which he was pilloried by British left-wingers. Rather predicatably, he was labelled a fascist by them. He also got interned by the govt, keen to keep good relations with Stalin.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Count_Geoffrey_Potocki_de_Montalk
Varsovian   
19 Dec 2012
News / Polish final report on Smoleńsk aircrash [853]

You know, I was watching a programme called Air Crash Investigation or something like that about the Milan air crash of 2001 the other day.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linate_Airport_disaster

Seeing as it was an SAS plane, the Swedes automatically sent their investigators immediately and they liaised closely with the Italian air crash investigators. Unfortunately, the Italian police were in charge and cocked things up terribly, but the joint investigation team with dogged determination got to the inconvenient truth in the end. Compare with Smolensk.
Varsovian   
7 Dec 2012
News / Poland blocks any action on climate change [569]

If Methuselah were born today, he'd be a very old man before he'd be able to tell anyone if anthropogenic climate change was happening.

I would far prefer the billions of euros being spent on useless schemes (e.g. wind and solar in Europe) to be spent on saving lives NOW.

Why should people still die miserable, preventable deaths in their millions, while the Danny Cohn-Bendits of this world go round screaming about their own importance? Again.

Clean water, concrete floors (not dirt), medicines ...