Englishman Reacts to... When Will UK Living Standards Slip Behind Poland?

[@user-pf7nl7xx4n]

Okay, I am tired of 'EU funds beneficiary' argument. Yes, Poland is a beneficiary to those funds and they do help the economy a bit, BUT no country is giving away free candy to Poland. It is a COMPENSATION from those EU countries and they giving it only because it is financialy benefiting them to do so. NO FREE CANDY Membership in EU helps Poland to grow economically mostly due to shared market. EU funds are meagre when compared with it.

[@katarzynaherman4814]

A couple of years ago Ursula decided to call names Poles ... she wanted to found this multimillion business going in Ukraine so she stopped some loans or funds which were in title. Disgusting snakes. We were and are sponsoring ukrainians and this sick manipulative war with our own money - without our permission- and still the manipulative bunch of EU robbers calling us names

[@adamwnt]

you couldn't put it better

[@stanleyuk1]

Looking for to back to Poland after 21 yrs in UK. We are very optimistic and future is there.

[@kroll01]

4 years ago I was earning £2,200 a month in Southampton, after covid and returning to Poland I now earn £2,700 in conversion... So I'm happy and many of my friends are already back, even Polish-English families...

[@RobReacts1]

Well that's bloody decent!

[@Tomm4070]

@@RobReacts1 that happend only in IT

[@pandzida98765]

@@RobReacts1 If you think that the EU is good, it means that your perception of it is idealized and simply... detached from reality. 🤷‍♀😂And you don't even know what's happening in the EU. 😅Germany dominates most of the EU institutions and does whatever they want, using them to pursue their own interests at the expense of other countries. Example... forced contract with the so-called "Mercosur" which will lead to the destruction of agriculture in EU countries.

[@janeeyre6188]

I’m Polish and l lived in London 2006-2016. I’m an English teacher and l taught English to foreigners in central London. Moving back to Warsaw, Poland was such a relief. For me the UK has become 3rd world country with very poor quality buildings, unhealthy food, very unsafe especially for women, dirty to the point that streets are sticky because of human pee and vomit. When l went to the bank to discuss my finances there was often someone with poor English and it always made me wonder if they got what l meant, so frustrating not being able to deal with native speakers. I saw no future there😢Living in Poland, on the other hand, has given me peace, safety and lots of optimism for the future. I truly feel sorry for the UK and its citizens 😢

[@MarkS-j5v]

Haha stating the facts...love it

[@woytzekbron7635]

I'm Polish, London still better for me than Poland. Enjoy but don't shit on country where you lived 10 years, I was fed up with Poland because of people of your kind, disrispectful, complaining, pathetic people.

[@katarzynaherman4814]

@janeeyre6188 Yes, you are right. But if you think Poland is better off... Not so much of new incomers yet. But so much more compearing with 3- 5 years ago. Poland is still treated on the political level ( so towards people) as a secondary country, paying more for everything. Did you know that electricity is more expensive in Poland than in the UK now. I think butter too recently. If you think about food... No wonder foreign agents sold out polish supermarkets. Now we import food of unknown background. Gmo and full of chemicals. They are on keep destroying polish farmers so polish food industry. Lots of meet factories are Chinese dead meet imported from Holland, Germany, Denmark, poultry from terriory of Israel, Ukraine of unknown owner ( could be Charles's the III) A few years after the other communism we still were self-sufficient. Not anymore. Food wasn't filled with chemicals, and we were considered as producers of organic food. Mightbe not developed regarding technology, but much more healthy than now. Are we treated accordingly in our own country ( medical care, taxes) ... no, relocated nations are but not Poles. With the last thing I have mentioned is the same in Europe so UK.

[@michdem100]

Hey, you're gonna visit my home city :) Anyway, there are some "notes" to keep in mind regarding Poland, as you said. With the cheaper workforce, what you're describing is actually called the Middle Income Trap. Basically the economy is dependent on the fact that the workforce is cheap and it prevents it from creating an internal demand. Luckily Poland has kind of avoided that. For one a lot of our manufacturing actually goes internally. We're not that much dependent on exports, but we do need access to the European Market. And now with the war, we had a lot of immigrants from Ukraine, very hard working people, which for sure do some unpleasant things in the housing market (though I think even without immigration we'd have issues there), but also our army and military industry is growing very well. So while of course things aren't perfect, they for sure aren't so bad. In the end it's a case of Poland being a well functioning country with well functioning economy and a can do attitude, while the UK has been run by delulu twats, who still thing they're an empire.

[@Hjk-f9d]

I feel for United Kingdom, their government hasn't done right by their people. Amongst other things I pray things will turn around for UK and everyone else that's struggling do to incompetent government, EU, Brussels and other organizations. Not to mention Illigal Migrants that are too expensive for any country, economicly, housing, medical, etc.

[@MarcinKdoL]

I left the UK in 2016 as well when the English started asking me why I was stealing their jobs✌️

[@RobReacts1]

Good for you! Bloody racist English. The ones saying it were probably the lazy ones who are on benefits by choice

[@Piotrek4500]

@@RobReacts1 we heard a lot of them sadly..

[@matrixmannn]

Ten film jest w zasadzie sprawiedliwy. Z kilkoma stwierdzeniami bym podyskutował ale to już jest temat do poważnej debaty. Co do samych Polaków to my jesteśmy urodzonymi kapitalistami. Mamy to w swoim DNA. Nawet za komuny dawaliśmy sobie radę i można o tym pisać bez końca. Słyszałem ostatnio taki dowcip, że Polska jest nazywana Texasem Europy i pewnie coś w tym jest.😂😂 Na powrót Polaków do Polski rasizm pewnie ma wpływ i brexit też ale liczy się ekonomia, a my potrafimy liczyć kasę. Jakby się nam opłacało siedzieć w GB to pewnie mimo rasizmu byśmy tam dalej siedzieli ale zaczyna się nie opłacać więc wracamy i to coraz liczniej i nasza zarobiona w GB kasa też. Zresztą większość Polaków wyjeżdżających za pracą nigdy nie zakłada, że gdzieś zostanie, no chyba, że okoliczności się zmienią ale to też temat na oddzielne opowiadanie. Co do samej Polski to wszyscy zdajemy sobie sprawę z tego, że nie jest różowo i przyczyn tego możemy szukać zarówno w kraju jak i w otoczeniu geopolitycznym Polski ale najważniejsze jest to, że zdiagnozowaliśmy problemy i wiemy co i gdzie jest źle, a to jest pierwszy przyczynek do tego aby naprawiać to co jest złe i poprawiać to co można i należy poprawić oraz budować nowe, które poprawi nam warunki i poziom życia. Jak nam to wyjdzie to tylko czas pokaże?....

[@HEN-Huzar]

Raczej Texas "Małą Polską"🇵🇱.

[@MaxQWERTY-d5x]

@HEN-Huzar ...fakt...nawet flaga teksańska to przeròbka polskiej...😜🇨🇱🇨🇱🇨🇱

[@mypointofview1111]

That's a good start. Fixing the obvious problems isn't something the UK government is interested in. Finding solutions to the bigger problems is less of a motivation to the UK government

[@matrixmannn]

@@mypointofview1111 Polacy by to już dawno pozamiatali. My teraz ścigamy złodziei i korupcję z poprzedniego rządu i nowi musza to zrobić bo jak nie to przegrają następne wybory i też pójdą siedzieć.

[@matrixmannn]

@@mypointofview1111 👍👍🙂🙂Polacy by to już dawno pozamiatali. My teraz ścigamy złodziei i korupcję poprzedniego rządu i nowi muszą to zrobić bo jak nie to sami przegrają następne wybory i sami pójdą siedzieć.

[@mariolondyn50]

( Cicha niepozorna brytyjska polityka ) To , że Uk sie pogrąża to głównie wina najgłupszego PM w historii tego kraju , a w mniejszej mierze z powodu odpływu polskich speców z Wyspy . Ich Anglicy już uzupełnili zatrudniając Rumunów i Bułgarów , a ostatnio sukcesywnie dochodzą Brazylijczycy , którzy do niedawna dostawali tylko wizy turystyczne .

[@Dumamigo]

jedyna Prawda

[@dariadi8260]

Hej 😊 Nie wiem jak w UK, ale na co dzień, to od Brazylijczyków to się odczep. Pracowałam w Brazylii, poznałam trochę Brazylijczyków w Polsce. To naprawdę ciężko pracujący naród. Wiadomo czasem mija chwila zanim ogarną system... Ale ja miałam tak samo będąc u nich w gościnie. Pewnych rzeczy uczymy się tylko z czasem doświadczając. Nie da się wszystkiego opisać w podręcznikach😅

[@mariolondyn50]

@@dariadi8260 - a gdzie ja sie przyczepiłem do tej nacji ? Dopiero teraz to zrobie - z jednej strony faktycznie ciężko pracują ( od ekip od kruszenia betonu , aż do zwykłych labuerów i sprzątaczek włącznie ) , a z drugiej nie mało jest z tego narodu wąchaczy , wciągaczy i dilerów . Do tego krzykliwi jak inni południowcy np. Portugalczycy . To tyle z realnej obserwacji i obcowania z nimi w Londynie .

[@AlexaEste]

I thought Brits didn't want Poles, Bulgarians and Romanians in UK because they were taking jobs away from them and kept wages down.

[@mypointofview1111]

That was the position but mainly with older people who didn't want those jibs in the first place. Just complaining for its own sake. Now that so many Poles have left standards of work have vanished. Very few people want to work to a good standard. The English have become more parochial as a result

[@Wawrzyczny80]

Wages might still be lower in Poland, but the average house costs 600,000 Polish złoty (approximately £120,000), compared to £270,000 in the UK. Additionally, food prices, especially for fruits and vegetables, are much cheaper in Poland. GDP per capita means nothing, GDP PPP is important in few years it will be the same as UK. The UK does not have a robust economy; only London is wealthy, while the rest of the country is at a similar level to Slovenia. The UK is likely to stagnate, while Poland is expected to grow steadily for at least the next 20 years. The future of the UK does not look promising-people seem indifferent to their own country, and the government appears equally disengaged. The litter, crumbling infrastructure, and general neglect paint a bleak picture.

[@arachnida7537]

To complain so much about your country.... There is a Pole in you there. But... In Poland complaining works then in UK maybe it will help too 😅

[@RobReacts1]

Haha

[@HEN-Huzar]

You want to fix the EU. Simple, more centrists and conservatives in the European Parliament. Just more common sense.

[@miaemilia6462]

Tories ruined Uk dear to the level that Labour has no chance to succeed and will be out at next elections possibly taking hit for their “failures” caused by Tories. Labour has no moves to fix the economy I am afraid. Not to mention how much money Tories stole and no investigation nor accountability whatsoever for some reason.. the corruption level in UK is unheard of. The lack of accountability is ridiculous . And the only poles who would ever complain about EU are PIS supporters - polish Tories. Extreme right are present in every EU country nothing new here. Majority of poles understand the value of EU there won’t be Polexit! Sorry to disappoint all the Tories.

[@MrSztyrlic]

UK is in the position in which it just can't be hurt too much. US language is spoken there, and the distance is closer than to most of European countries. Cousins. Poland is farther and is no cousins. That ends the theme.

[@miroslawobr3383]

We love You to, mate 😂

[@MarkS-j5v]

Too*

[@stawros22]

Im always happy to discuss. But calling me an idion bc i think different than you isnt good start

[@paweszawowski9337]

In fact 5 or 10 years is far too long span of time to be sure the predictions come true, but I siill feel feel satisfaction that there is a perspective of catching up the UK in terms of economy. On the other hand I woudn't like British economy to slump down. My sister's son -a medicine doctor moved to Wiltshire He''s already got to stay there for the rest of his life. So have his 3 sons raised and educated in Britain. Unless they change their mind. My Dad worked in the British company's factory in Łódź before the war but he learned English in a German POW camp during the war from a German handbook and the officers there were secretely listening to the BBC Polish programmes . He kept on listening to it until he died in 1972. Maybe for these reasons I'd like Britain to keep on being a leading country in science, invention and culture.

[@rastaman4180]

Look i am Polish i was working in London over 7 years and i left becouse of the safety money was good but cost as well we all was thinking that in west is better life trust me it is not in Poland i am safe and now good money Most of the Polish people have to travel to diffrent countries but they do not want to they be rather i motherland with family and now they can and we were never been really welcomed in UK from ages so what you expect

[@adamwnt]

Rob, those who say lets Polexit is a small but load minority especially online

[@ratiolibek]

It's not Brexit's fault that the UK is doing poorly right now, it's the fault of their politicians. Frankly, I do not want Poland to leave the EU, exactly for the same reason-our politicians are failing, and we'd probably be worse off after a "Polexit" than we are now. However, that doesn’t mean Poland couldn't do better outside the EU. You can see how much funding Poland has received, but I also notice how many Polish companies have been bought out by German and French capital funds. Wages are rising, but it's not Polish companies that are paying them to Poles. There have been several occasions when Poland became the EU's leader in the production of certain goods, only for the EU to change regulations, causing us to lose that spot. A current example is the production of car batteries. Poland is now second in the world after China in battery production, and the EU is already trying to change regulations to ensure French companies can dominate this market. On the other hand, Ursula von der Leyen is “selling” European farmers in exchange for a new market for German cars in South America. She is even attempting to do this without proper voting in the European Parliament! And let’s not forget the problem of building our first nuclear power plant. Because of Germany, we’re already several years behind on completing it before we declared we would shut down our coal power plants. This means we may face extremely high energy prices, or we could be forced to pay penalties. I don’t even want to start with the EU’s shameful meddling in issues where we didn’t grant them power in the treaties. It shouldn’t matter to them what we do in Poland, yet they blocked us from receiving funds for several years simply because they didn’t like the changes we made to our laws. The EU is one big lobby marketplace, where the bigger countries always win, and the two biggest-Germany and France-ensure that all other countries lose, regardless of whether we receive 5, 10, or 20 billion euros. (By the way, I have a feeling those numbers are absolutely untrustworthy and should be much higher. 11 billion is a drop in the ocean; I suspect it was actually more.) Sure, the EU is great in certain aspects, and it could be a lot better. But you can't just say it’s all roses. What the EU has really given us that’s good is open borders for trade. That’s the main advantage. Not transfers for the chosen few, which mainly lead to corruption. Just open borders. Everything else is mostly regulations designed to help some at the expense of others. And the worst part is that the EU is mainly controlled by Germany, which itself can't manage its own country properly and has been dragging the whole Union down for years. I think you can sleep easy - we won’t catch up with the UK in 10 years. Not because the Labour Party came to power, but because 40% of Poland’s exports go to Germany, so they’ll drag us down with them.

[@bazejszymczak4543]

Niby UK wyszło z UE ale UE nie wyszło z UK...

[@UserName-q4i5d]

EU is about creating more customers for Auchan

[@woytzekbron7635]

Hey, Rob, I stay in London, no worries :D

[@RobReacts1]

Haha good job!

[@HEN-Huzar]

We won't catch up with the UK because "Mr.elephant tusks".

[@stcqw]

All Europeans countries should leave corrupt eu union

[@blubrydarka2028]

Dear Rob. Unfortunately, the European Union of thirty years ago, the Schumman Union, is a completely different entity than today's communist entity under the aegis of Artielo Spinelli. I recommend reading the biography of this Italian. It is his ideas that guide this institution today. The EU should be like the Schengen area. Today, unfortunately, it is only something of a sect. Producing law, several thousand pages a month. Who is able to read all this, who is able to implement it. The number and complexity of regulations only ruins the economy and development. Subsidies don't come out of nowhere either. First we have to pay them into the common budget. Later, after complicated procedures, some official or EU officer not related to our country will tell us whether he will make them available to us at all. As long as we believe in the same thing as him. In addition, to use these subsidies, Polish municipalities must have more than half of their funds. From where? From German banks. Because there is no Polish capital left. And loans in Poland have much higher interest rates than in the UK. In Poland, everything you do and want to earn money is bad. However, the same behavior in Germany is ok. Example. We want to build an airport in Poland. No need, it's in Germany. Coal-fired power plants are being closed in Poland, while new ones are being opened in Germany. In Germany, rivers can be prepared for use by boats, but in Poland it is uneconomical and unecological. Heating houses with gas was OK until the Germans traded in Russian gas. Now it's not. Now pellet heating. Because Germany produces the most of it. A Polish company cannot win the tender for new trains because it is tailored to the requirements of the German company. And there are many such examples.

[@zeus2zeus2zeus2]

I would go further, today's EU is a Nazi and communist creation

[@8_Evelyn8]

Truth😢

[@scoff7032]

We got Donald Tusk so it won't happen

[@thebuggerdev]

7:40 problem with EU is that it's one institution that do lot's of things, often unrelated, like defining standards for toilet flush, allowing to work in other countries, banning classical lightbulbs, unificating documents like ID's and driver's licences, limiting power of vacum cleaners, giving money for highway constructions etc. You can't just say EU is good or EU is bad. You can say only if it has in concluision more good or more bad aspects.

[@Anarchiusz]

I always was taking you for a thoughtful guy, maybe not the smartest but definitely open. The amount of hate for different worldview that you spew in this video... Is your answer to why GB is falling, it's not brexit, it's not the conservatives, not the migration it is divide and blindness.

[@adamjankowski959]

GDP is not right indicator. Polish industry is agriculture and most of profits are exporting to western countries. So polish people are bulding not own prosperity.

[@Aski2]

Agriculture makes only few percent of Poland GDP. Main sector are services. Polish industry include several branches as like automotive, chemical, electronics, electric, energy, furniture, machines, metal making, petrochemical, tires and others.

[@kamilchrostowski6842]

Unfortunately it will get worse for you lot with Labour in power. Also Polands rise in recent years is kind of disproving your point of PiS being bad for us. 😊

[@SzymonSzymoniak-j8v]

Great Britain and development. Sorry, but that's an oxymoron

[@79siarzewski]

EU is shitty organisation. And I don't think I'm idiot only because my opinion is different.

[@lucynowacki3327]

You are stupid

[@stw4006]

Your body language and face expressions shows that this is uncomfortable subject for you 🧐

[@RobReacts1]

Only uncomfortable knowing what Brexit and the Tories have done

[@77seban]

From 1st of January 2025 gas price will inc-rise again for 25% we have the highest prices of electricity in Europe.

[@8_Evelyn8]

Britain has been and will continue to be a good place to live and will overcome all difficulties!!!I love England!! 💜💜💜 You move to Poland and i will move to England, we can even swap houses...you will have the big one you want(why do you need it if you don't have a family?children?..) and I want a small one...with two bedrooms is enough.... besides, wooden houses are beautiful and natural, if there are no tornadoes in the country you can build yourself a wooden house (look at the scandinavians)...they have great and stylish houses (ikea mmmm) nationalism is bad - agree patriotism is good-yes,o course, but what do u know about patriotyzm?do You feel it at all?

[@bountytracker]

Rob, "you idiot" please don't talk about Tusk and other Polish politicians if you have no idea what is going on and what they're doing with our country. Just ONE data: During the year of the new government, state-owned companies achieved profits that were 83% lower than a year ago. This way Poland will collapse faster than you think. Don't use one source to make your opinion.

[@mismoonkie]

Po co go wyzywasz, lol

[@bountytracker]

Zrobiłem dokładnie to samo, co on...

[@dbpol1683]

⁠@@bountytracker clearly your a PIS supporter. You think the repeating PIS propaganda is helpful….? When the previous government was stealing, messing with women’s rights, changing the constitution for their own benefit and using Pegasus to listening in on oppositions phone calls. Think I rather Tusk than the Mafia. Keep saying it how it is ROB 👍

[@johnalmighty2052]

Rob - you should run for president of Poland in our elections. You know more about the Polish language and Polish history than many nationalists in Poland. You have also visited more Polish cities than many of our politicians. And you certainly wouldn't flee to Hungary like one of those pseudo-Polish nationalists sponsored by Putin.

[@RobReacts1]

Haha I may need to be a polish citizen for that

[@johnalmighty2052]

@@RobReacts1 You are practically already Polish because you have mastered Polish tongue twisters and you know who Pope John Paul II was. Don't worry about formalities.

[@mismoonkie]

Instead of diving into politics, maybe you could try commenting on „Magda Gessler's Kitchen Revolutions”? It's pretty popular on Polish KZbin right now XD

[@TheDekazer]

That’s a vast minority of the Poles that saying that thrash about EU.

[@Richardxx11xx]

UK economy will further decline under the disastrous Labour government

[@adamwnt]

I don't think we will exceed the UK in per capita basis, but we are getting closer and closer. However, the more we get closer the harder it will be to exceed Western Europe including the UK, we will have to create some big businesses exporting some highly sought after stuff, at the moment, most of investments in those sectors are foreign multinationals which are making it harder for smaller Polish businesses to really push through, but time will tell. I am less left-ish than you as most of Poles as you perfectly know given our history and so on, but I agree with you and most Poles would say the same, the EU (not the EU funds per se which have marginal impact on the growth) but just being part of the common market is absolutely pivotal of the success we've experienced so far and immigration is important too as long as it is controlled and legal (only for those who work legally and contribute to the country and their families).

[@Richardxx11xx]

Trump and Brexit are good you’re wrong

[@Richardxx11xx]

Wrong again EU is bad

[@gozergozerian7627]

and youre a ruski ork i presume?

[@Polans-gd]

Go look for your brain, because you lost it somewhere, głupi człowieku !!!!

[@mismoonkie]

XDDDD