Plucky Little Poland

It is difficult not to have sympathy for Poland in her resistance to the idea that she should give up a large chunk of her voting power in the EU. Today her PM Jaroslaw Kaczynski raised the stakes by invoking the spectre of German guilt for its heinous crimes against Poland and her people in The Second World War.

“We are only demanding one thing - that we get back what was taken from us,” he said at the opening of the EU summit in Brussels, chaired by German chancellor Angela Merkel.

“If Poland had not had to live through the years of 1939-45, Poland would be today looking at the demographics of a country of 66 million.”
Poland's current population is 38 million.


The German delegation will doubtless be irritated by this but frankly they should squirm and look at their feet instead.

Britain, on the other hand, should tacitly support this line: after all we were allies in that conflict and many Poles fought and died alongside British and Empire troops or flew Hawker Hurricanes and Supermarine Spitfires with great courage and élan in the Battle of Britain. Thereafter we rather abandoned them to their fate. We owe them a debt of Honour and supporting them now would be a small repayment of that debt. Any Nation whose Army has the guts to charge advancing tanks with horsed Lancers is worthy of our admiration, after all.

Po-faced Politically Correct Europhiles will surely be outraged at this breach of their “For God’s Sake Don’t Mention The War” rule and will have that look about them that The Huntsman calls "The Lemon Squeezer Look" (Ingest juice of two lemons at once and then look in mirror: that's what it looks like!). That will equally surely warm the cockles of every Eurosceptic’s heart.