🛑About the EU: If your elected government is cowed by another government, you don't have an elected government. No DMs if I don't know you please.
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The TLDR situation in Poland:
You asked 👇
HOW DID TUSK GET BACK IN?
Poland has a President as well as a Prime Minister. The President is head of state, the Prime Minister runs the government day to day.
Tusk was President of the European Council in Brussels - one of the top jobs in the EU. Big salary, big prestige. He came back to Poland in 2021 to take over his old party, Civic Platform.
In October 2023 there was the general election. PiS - Law and Justice - actually got the most votes as a single party, but not a majority. Tusk put together a coalition of three - his Civic Coalition, plus Third Way, plus the Left.
Between them they had just enough seats to take power. So President Duda had to give Tusk the chance to form a government, and he became Prime Minister again in December 2023.
How did he win?
He didn't win the conservative, working class, rural Poland. He won the big cities - Warsaw, Gdansk, Wroclaw - and he aimed his campaign at white liberal middle class women and young graduates who want to be seen as European, not Polish.
Poland has secure borders. They have no mass no experience of the difficulties that are ahead .
No immigration from Somalia, Afghanistan, places like that. Most people there have never lived with what we have lived with in England. So it's easy to vote liberal when you don't have to live with the consequences.
Why would he leave a cushy EU job in Brussels to go back?
Because Brussels needed him back in Warsaw. PiS were blocking EU federalism. They wanted to keep the Zloty, keep their gold, keep their borders, keep their own courts. They were a problem for Germany and Brussels.
Tusk is their man in Warsaw. Put him back in to take over the courts, take over the Tribunal, open the borders, and get Poland into the Euro.
That's why he came back. Not for Poland - for Brussels.
@D_Tarczynski have I got this about right ?
Sound familiar?
“your punishment for having a knife when they
searched you would be very different from the thief's. For him to have a knife was mere misbehaviour, tradition, he didn't know any better.
But for you to have one was "terrorism.”
Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
I fear that this day is coming:
“The most terrifying force of death, comes from the hands of men who wanted to be left alone. They try, so very hard, to mind their own business and provide for themselves and those they love. They resist every impulse to fight back, knowing the forced and permanent change of life that will come from it. They know, that the moment they fight back, their lives as they have lived them, are over.
The moment the men who wanted to be left alone are forced to fight back, it is a form of suicide. They are literally killing off who they used to be. Which is why, when forced to take up violence, these men who wanted to be left alone, fight with unholy vengeance against those who murdered their former lives. They fight with raw hate, and a drive that cannot be fathomed by those who are merely play-acting at politics and terror. TRUE TERROR will arrive at these people’s door, and they will cry, scream and beg for mercy… but it will fall upon the deaf ears of the men who just wanted to be left alone.”
Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
Given enough time and self-investigation EVERYONE will eventually come to realise that everything you hear on MSM is the opposite to the truth.
Irish police forced to HITCHHIKE three miles to emergency after electric patrol car runs out of charge 😄😄thesun.ie/news/17745768/gard…
Utterly embarrassing (and totally deserved) for @andyburnham @Ed_Miliband and @UKLabour ,
We have become a laughing stock banana republic in just two years and there are three to go. This national destruction must be deliberate. God help us.
Israel has closed the British consulate in Jerusalem in protest against Ed Miliband’s sanctions on West Bank settlements
🔗 telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2…
This is snooping at a level beyond what the Stasi or KGB used to do. Be in no doubt, the UK is a police state. Child safety my arse.
🚨 X, META & TIKTOK TAKE OFCOM TO COURT OVER SWEEPING ONLINE SAFETY DATA DEMANDS
A major legal battle over the future of online regulation in Britain has just concluded its first High Court hearing.
X, Meta and TikTok are challenging Ofcom over the scale of information the regulator is demanding under the Online Safety Act.
X has described the request as:
“the most burdensome information request X has received from any regulator in any jurisdiction.”
The platforms say Ofcom is demanding extremely detailed information about content moderation, including material removed or restricted and how many users saw content before action was taken.
Meta argues the demands are too broad and lack a sufficiently clear regulatory purpose, while TikTok says Ofcom bypassed a more structured monitoring framework.
Ofcom says the information is necessary to determine whether the Online Safety Act is actually working and says it has already narrowed what it originally requested.
The High Court hearing ran from 5–7 October.
There is no public ruling yet.
But the implications are significant.
Because this is not simply about illegal content.
It is about how much information a state regulator can compel major platforms to hand over about moderation decisions, user exposure and platform behaviour.
And that raises some fundamental questions:
How much data should a regulator be entitled to demand?
Could these powers eventually influence what platforms remove, restrict or suppress?
What protections exist for lawful political speech?
And where does legitimate safety regulation end and excessive regulatory control begin?
At the same time, Ofcom has opened a separate formal investigation into Meta over Instagram’s Instants feature, examining whether Meta properly assessed illegal-content and child-safety risks before launching it.
Ofcom stresses that opening the investigation does not mean it has concluded Meta broke the law.
Under the Online Safety Act, serious breaches can lead to fines of up to £18 million or 10% of qualifying worldwide revenue, whichever is greater.
This case deserves close attention.
Because whichever way the court eventually rules, it could help define how far Ofcom’s powers over X and other major platforms actually extend.
I’ll be watching for the judgment.
"Labour could oversee worst parliament on record for living standards, study warns" The Guardian.
theguardian.com/business/202…
Oil flows are now at 90% of the pre-war levels through the strait.
We are being dry bummed in the UK.
