Poland's PIS go back to their old ways

"we can see exactly why women are condemned to return to the 1900's in modern day Poland" no chance the women have always been in charge in Poland. just ask my mum or the ladies in the village who chase their husbands back up the street when the catch them in the drinking den.

To you modernity are kids running wild unsupervised after school, falling in with bad company, doing designer drugs, doing poorly at school, families grabbing a bite of fast food or at feeding at home on highly-processed and chemical-rich food becuase there's no time to prepare proper home-cooked meals.

Is that what PiS represent, Polonius?

It certainly doesn't represent my values.

No, that's what your so-called "modernity" represents. Working parents shunting their kids off to be raised by strangers in nurseries, kindergartens and after-school clubs may be bringing in a double pay packet but at the price of their kids emotional bonds and balanced development. Maybe better-off parents can afford a nanny and cook, but the vast majority cannot. Brits are notorious for their boarding-school obsession which may be convenient to parents but weakens or destroys inter-generational family ties.

In other words, you're admitting that PiS stand for keeping women unemployed and stuck at home.

Polonius simply does not understand contemporary Poland. He's projecting a idealized suburban US model as the ideal lifestyle for Poland (Father Knows Best with bigos and a poster of PJPII on the wall).

Many of those who voted for PiS were voting for job creation and PiS has done absolutely nothing to create jobs except for their own cronies. And I don't expect them to either because all of their economic proposals are proven failures.

You have never visited Poland have you?

I'm starting to believe he never has actually been inside the borders of Poland (his Poland is his mind palace).

6.5 - 7.0% of UK children attend private schools. Of these 15% board. If you are going to try to perpetuate an Edwardian myth, at least get your facts right.

I went to private school, non board, from 11-18. Best education you can get as it sets you up for life. In Poland private schools tend to be of a low academic standard, when in fact it should be the opposite. Having an entrance exam attracts the best students and the best teachers, that my view on it.

I'm no expert but I've read that although private schoolkids do better than those at state school (no doubt because of the much lower pupil to teacher ratios) they do not shine at university when the playing field is levelled. As for setting you up for life, do you mean because they are better at self-development as well as education, or because of the 'old boy network'?

Slapping together dinner using the over-processed convenience foods, heat-and-eat this, instant that, quick-cooking something else (not to mention chemical-rich snack foods) that constitute the bulk of offerings at Polish supermarkets and groceries is not a proper made-from-scratch meal. That kind takes a lot of knowledge, skill and TLC -- nearly impsossible when both parents work. Unless, that is, the family's got a live-in babcia. There is nothing like a Polish babcia!

Anyway, just go to a Carrefour, Tesco, Biedronka, Leclerc, etc. and watch what kind of over-processed crap Polish shoppers put into their trolleys!

Merged: PiS makes Poland an authoritarian state?

It doesn't, but the worst is yet to come. If you take a closer look at the PiS recent initiatives and particularly at its leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski's affairs, you'll see it clearly: there's a full-scale political cleansing well under way in Poland. As for Kaczynski, he is quite obviously getting prepared to 'welcome' back his old political foe Donald Tusk, whose term as the president of the European Council expires next May. You know the rule: all fair in love and war.

buzzfeed.com/juliusmedici/kaczyaskis-personal-non-confidence-vote-to-the-t-2pq0v

Ok, now add here those Constitutional court law changes the PiS made right after assuming power and try to give an answer to the head question once again.

Yes it does, regretfully