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Post by Devil Wincarnate on Oct 14, 2019 21:10:22 GMT
This would seem to match something I'd heard, and indeed my own suspicions, that a disproportionate percentage of Poles in the UK come from the Recovered Territories. |
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Post by CatholicLeft on Oct 14, 2019 21:38:05 GMT
This would seem to match something I'd heard, and indeed my own suspicions, that a disproportionate percentage of Poles in the UK come from the Recovered Territories. Well, that really depends - many of the post-war Polish settlers in the UK were from the East of Poland, annexed by the USSR after their treaty with Hitler, and now part Western Ukraine. The most recent immigration has been across modern Poland although, not least in the North-West of England, where we both live, it is heavily slated from Western Poland, although not all, by any means, from the "Recovered Territories . Also. most didn't register vote and they tend to be quite conservatively Catholic. A 10% turnout in the UK represents not much, to be honest. |
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Post by Merseymike on Oct 14, 2019 21:57:13 GMT
Quite a lot of the younger Poles over here came to escape the conservative attitudes. Quite a few gay people for a start.
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Post by Sibboleth on Oct 14, 2019 23:22:15 GMT
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Post by Andrew_S on Oct 21, 2019 1:16:57 GMT
"In the recent Polish election, the conservative Law and Justice party (PiS) received 43.59 percent of the vote, giving it a parliamentary majority. In total, socially conservative parties amassed nearly 60 percent of the vote. This win suggests that Polish society remains largely traditional and continues to reject the neoliberal economic policies of previous governments. However, it is as painfully polarized as ever." www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2019/10/poland-polarized |
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Post by Georg Ebner on Oct 21, 2019 13:52:50 GMT
"In the recent Polish election, the conservative Law and Justice party (PiS) received 43.59 percent of the vote, giving it a parliamentary majority. In total, socially conservative parties amassed nearly 60 percent of the vote. This win suggests that Polish society remains largely traditional and continues to reject the neoliberal economic policies of previous governments. However, it is as painfully polarized as ever." www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2019/10/poland-polarizedOh, well - "socially conservative" (i.e. religious) is neither of them fully: PiS was initially centred around law&order, PSL are agrarians, Korwin is liberal ("libertarian"/"neoliberal"). |
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Post by David Ashforth on Nov 19, 2019 12:00:30 GMT
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on Nov 21, 2019 22:21:35 GMT
Now that is psephology.
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