The Daily Mail - coverage of the Polish people

Lol. "Some people near London" - That seems reliable source.
On the other hand - I admire the professionalism of the said reporter. As a Polish, I am supposed to be a kind of expert on the swan-related matters, but honestly - I couldn't distinguish a swan's wing from any other white ones. The same with the Bible in Romanian. I couldn't say if that is Romanian or any other language.

I really love this story. :-)
Seriously though - I don't understand why this story was so shocking? As far as I am aware - there is strong taboo against eating the swans in Poland, but until recently the Swan-dish was a part of British cuisine. So what the fuzz?

Apart from anything else, the Crown retains the right to ownership of all unmarked mute swans in open water. So killing one is illegal and eating it means you have stolen from the queen.

The story came from the fact that in Poland elephant is often eaten as the sunday dinner...of course in Poland an elephant is a swan...!

The dish became so popular that elephants are now seldom seen in Polish forests...

Yeah - I understand that this is illegal. But there a lot of illegal activities happening every day. Not all of this is so "shocking" like this one.

They're bigger.


it probably had it written on the front "This is a Romanian Bible". Everyone knows East Europeans would have one like that. Good job it wasn't a multi-lingual Gideon Bible or half of Europe would have been blamed too.

Of course, maybe the Bible was open at a page in "Romans", so it showed it was Romanian.

There's one hiding in my fridge. I know it's there: I saw footprints in the butter.

Only on trunk roads.

Are you serious about that?

Nothing has changed: look at the front page of today's Mail on Sunday....

Do you have anymore of these, they are quite hilarious....

Here is an interesting site on this topic, it looks like they are watchdogs for the daily mail : mailwatch.co.uk/category/immigration

Using misleading crime stats to make readers frightened of foreigners
mailwatch.co.uk/tag/immigration

There is a lot on the net about the Daily mail and their lies and manipulation of facts and statistics.

Here is another site and article - Asylum lies and Daily Mail readers
angrymob.uponnothing.co.uk/home/70-newspaper-lies/221-aslylum-lies-and-daily-mail-readers

And more sights Lies, damned lies and the Daily Mail's interpretation of statistics
stirringupapathy.wordpress.com/2009/08/31/lies-damned-lies-and-the-daily-mails-interpretation-of-statistics

It p*sses off the lefties, thats good enough for me.

So you have nothing to say and just want people to be as hateful and angry as yourself.
You could get a job for the Daily Mail.

Here's the latest!

dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1257784/Biggest-Asda-meat-supplier-excludes-English-speakers-instructions-given-Polish.html

Of course, next week DM will run a story about how the meat factory are using Polish workers as the meat, and british cows and pigs will be protesting about all these foreigners coming over and stealing their jobs.

RevokeNice was good enough to inform us already: No job unless you're Polish

Unscrupulous companies abusing both locals and legal foreign workers, it is great that we have such concerned citizens like RN, who is able to look beyond nationality (sarcasm on full).

He believes ever word and blames Poles, just like the Daily Mail, he would swallow a brick if it was anti Polish.

I think they're doing exactly what they were doing before Poland joined EU and they could give the guys legal jobs. Problem in UK is everyone likes cheap baked beans but don't want to know how they can be produced so cheaply.

the Daily Mail was a famous Paddy bashing rag for years and now the Irish buy it in their own country.So its obviously just a universal idiots paper.

And almost all of them would refuse to pay more for a product produced in Britain. They might give lip service about it - but in reality, none of them want to pay 25-30% more for their British produced goods.

True.

What I was thinking of was the baked bean war, a few years ago, where beans were down to about 9p a tin. People loved it. However, the reason supermarkets were able to do this was because the farms supplying them were using a huge amount of illegal labour from Eastern Europe.

And of course, no-one cared because they wouldn't work on the farms anyway.

I've actually offered quite a few unemployed moaners on forums work in Poland - inclusive of a bed to sleep on at night. Not one person has accepted!

Of course not, they have probably never actually thought what it means to want to, be prepared to, or feel like you have to leave the comfort of home to find work.

Where are you based?

What do you think?

I missed that...what was the job...?

He offered some indian chap a job. Nobodies heard of, or seen him since.

perhaps he ended up as a kielbasa...?

Yes, I am. Parliament is free to pass any bills it needs or thinks relevant. Some people will not comply with the bills passed by Parliament, so Her or His Majesty prepares fines, also prisons wait ready for them. My friends as law-abiding British subjects would certainly comply and - given the choice - would buy The Guardian. If Parliament were to force them to buy a daily copy of The Daily Mail, they would most probably refuse and would risk to be sent into prison instead.

The British sovereign is under the control of British Parliament either. If Parliament passed a bill to end the monarchy in Britain and ordered the Queen to get beheaded, she would have no other choice than sign the bill and put her head under the axe. Such is the logic of the constitutional monarchy in the UK, whether you like it or not. The power by Parliament over the monarch was once revealed to the monarch in full in the course of British history, with the most deplorable effect on the latter, so Queen Elisabeth II prefers to sit quiet in one of her palaces, signing every bill that Parliament kindly passes her to sign.

I bet she'd take her time signing that one, "Efter mey loooong holidey abroad!"

I was under the impression that she had the last say on everything (although rarely went against her government).

welll... Where I can find the British constitution? I would gladly read it.

Statutes, court judgments, treaties, lists of parliamentary constitutional conventions and the royal prerogatives. The British constitution is uncodified, not unwritten.

Officially, yes. There's no override - if Royal Assent is refused, then that's that. There was an interesting constitutional crisis in Australia about 30 years ago over something similar where the Governor (in the name of the Queen) interfered with their politics.

You could say that the Queen exists to discourage anything threatening democracy - as it would seem unlikely that the Queen (or King) would allow anything to be passed which directly threatened the country.