One Polish spud fewer

By Rein F. Deer - 31.10.2007 / 00:00 CET

After the election as prime minister two years ago of the Kaczynski Brother – the one without cat hairs on his suit – two million young Poles voted with their feet, going to work in the UK, the Netherlands, France, and other old member states. Now the same young people, all over the old West, have voted him out.

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