The Poles are mad but we all knew that!

A fascinating article by the distinguished observer of all things Eastern European, Ms. Anne Applebaum over at the CAPX site.  She begins with the Poles whom she suspects are going into one of their mad seasons:

Poland is very, very profoundly divided into really warring camps, people who not only disagree with one another, they don’t even agree on the facts of the day.

Well, that would describe most countries most of the time but the Poles do have a tendency to take things to extremes - sometimes for good, sometimes for ill!

At least half the country is extremely worried by the government’s attacks on the Polish constitution, by the government’s attack on its judiciary, and by the potential for future attacks on free media – there’s already talk of so called re-Polanisation of the media, and nationalisation of private business more generally. So, yes, there is a lot of concern. And then there’s the part of the country that is happy because it feels that it’s benefiting from the government’s social programmes.

Of course, looming over the Polish horizon is the ever-present threat of 'Mother' Russia!  At least there is one slightly modifying factor present in that Nato has moved further east with British troops in Lithuania and American troops in Poland which will give even Putin pause!  A delicate situation so we must all pray that the Poles don't go 'bonkers'!

 

 

 

Comments

[Loz]

And who is holding Poland back from the brink of dissolving the enlightenment principle of separation of powers?

The same organisation that would open up the NHS to global supply tendering and investment ...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2019/11/27/real-risk-nhs-comes-jeremy-corbyn-leaving-brussels-hands/

Corbyn and BoJo hate that organisation because its trade deals would oblige the NHS to improve productivity, efficiency, and value for money by attracting global investment and suppliers to compete against in-house and domestic management and suppliers for NHS operation and supplies, thereby benefitting the Brit peeps.

The "take back control" mob can't wait to doom the Brit peeps to a future of shit over-priced public services.

It seems that organisation is the only vestige of Thatcherism left in Blighty and Europe, the only place capable of sustaining her legacy. How wise she was to throw the torch to Brussels and not the Corbyn-lite Tory party.

SoD