Poles Apart

The Law and Justice Party in Poland did enormous harm by supporting the neoconservative war agenda, but at least stopped short of endorsing the neocons' beloved cause of Turkish membership of the EU, which would subject us all to laws made by members of the Islamist AKP, sister-party of the Tories as an associate member (and full member in waiting) of the European People's Party.

But the Civic Platform is even worse, wishing to privatise absolutely everything, even including the Health Service, and so turn Poland into a replica of rabidly neoliberal and therefore increasingly famine-stricken Hungary. It is the sort of party for which the embittered old Blairite whingers could vote without batting an eyelid. No wonder that the Eustonite pseudo-Left is going bananas with glee at the Civic Platform's victory. Says it all, really.

The pro-life, pro-family, pro-worker and anti-war League of Polish Families might be outspoken by the standards to which we are used, but that can be a good thing, not least in the face of neoliberal economics, the corresponding neoconservative warmongering geopolitics, and their two-pronged assault on life and the family. And I can see no other hope for Poland. If anyone can, then do please let me know.