How about work in some factories during the 2000s and figure it out.

cheaper goods cause uk is slaping tax on everything cause its a island it always has had harsh taxes which is why america revolted in the 1700's the brits tried to impose those same tax levels to the colony's

The British people pay often times 2 to 3 times as much for the same things the rest of us do.

keep in mind they hide the tax under total cost but the market up of the tax in included in the sale.

Globalization. Its cheaper and more efficient to build in Poland than UK. I remember reading about protests in France and Germany when some German car manufacturer built their factory in Poland. More productive and willing to adapt automation and new tech. Less strike action.

Applies to ship building and pretty much anything else.

Developing countries tend to grow much faster.

Poland decided to capitalize on it's Prussian efficiency while avoiding the German bureaucracy and settling for more of a Eastern European living standard for a while.

Really it is just wages were cheaper so production moved there resulting in more jobs, but it is easy to make stuff up.

mooching..

poles go work in west europe by illicit means.
(either by some "keep polish minimumwage while driving truck in west europe, while crashing your truck in everything cause they aint even remotely as skilled)

or but some illicit hire them to harvest dutch crops for wages that are below lawfull minimumwage
eroding union power
-> the story dutch not want to do those jobs themselves is bogus, they just want pay and lavour circumstandes upto lawfull code.. and often a bit above it.
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this is made worse cause they often are working for polish "labour agencies" who pocket the dutch minimumwage and pay them only the polish one..
+ they push them with 20 in houses where legally no more than 4 may live, and waiting list priority applies (aka houses native dutch have right to rent)
**than they both exploit these polish workers AND worsening labour shortage.. by for example charge halve their wages for that house.. 20x300 euro a week.. while by law that house in it's entirely never should be allowed to raise like 600 euro a month rent (as rents are capped here by law to prevent overcharging more than a house is worth)

these polish workers also drink insane amounts of alcohol.. so if such a "pollandflat" is placed near you expect a lot of suffering for those living nearby in the form of loud music and fights/shouting at the strangest hours, the stamping of 20+ feets,, and littering/puke and small crime (more disapearing bikes, park annimals etc) in the direct surrounding...


second way they mooch is stupid EU has an active policy of wanting to level wages within EU (which is exactly why I want my nation the netherlands to leave it)
-> it essentially means our growth is purposely 20 year stunted and our coin over 80% more eroded.. so that other nations in the eu can have less inflation and more growth than they would have without this..
**I am a nationalist.. I am Dutch NOT european.. I am not against mutural benefincial cooperation with my neighbouring countries but I am not willing to sacrificy MY national interest for these kind of idiotic projects as our policians seem to be (they always panic we MUST do this to save europe.... or the eu collapses/euro falls.. and I am always like and why would that be bad for OUR country? like braindeads they always toss our wealth under the buss to save this european project without once calculating is that actually a WISE investment for OUR nation..

**we dutch are the highest neth payer to the eu.. while nations like poland get heaps of subsidy.. so our money is litterly taken by that stupid eu.. and given as eu grants to poland (who is one of the highest recievers of them to their farmers to build their highways and such...

Significantly lower levels of income inequality, investment in infrastructure, and EU funding.

I don't object some poles working here in itself..
we fleeced those poles in ww2 bigtime they fought harder than canadians, and americans in liberating our nation from the nazi.. and than tossed them under the bus by having them suffer under 50 years of soviet occupation instead of properly doing unthinkable to give them their deserved freedom.
the ussr did not liberate ANYTHING from the nazi.. merely "under new managment"
for poland ww2 ended only in 1991 and not even fully for like their original borders lay in ukraine the way they were fleeced by moved to an entire new region.. is insane too.. especially for a non agressor nation.. (it is normal you take land from those who start and loosewars NOT from those who are were it's first victem)

but the way it is done now.. has got to go.. IF polish drivers are driving truck here they must get OUR dutch driving licence, and pass OUR professional driving exams, and follow OUR registration system for hours on the road.. so that they stop making so many accidents.. while also paid OUR union set trucker wage.. so they no longer undercut the local dutch wanting to do that job..
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same with those wishing to work in the greenhouses... to pluck tomatoes..

and that mooching via eu got to go.. we must leave the eu as netherlands so we no longer get as much inflation by the bad fiscal policies and economies of other nations but a coin that strong again like the guilder was and fits our own fiscal responsibility.
so the dutch people no longer loose purchase power to the poles
and no more billions a year to the eu to give to poland.

and if they remove our car factories to movve to poland.. I want to be able to add tarifs on that.. so that that move might not happen in the first place.

Originally posted by OMG!:

Significantly lower levels of income inequality, investment in infrastructure, and EU funding.

nope thats exactly the OPPOSITE of what must happen.

the eu must be disbanded as must the euro.. and my own nation the netherland must leave it rather yesterday than today.

Poland doesn't waste money on a Navy, Space Program, and overseas Territories.

Britain has all 3 but hasn't made money with them since ships used sails to travel the seas.

GDP =\= Prosperity.

Originally posted by Arvaos ⚚:

Poland is around 80–85% as rich as the UK when adjusted for cost of living.

When Poland joined the EU, it was only around 40–45% of the UK level.

How is Poland catching up to the UK so quickly?

i dont know, but i also dont mind.

best of luck to them, i say.