@@Emerald_Forge most Brits still seem to think that Poles treat the UK as the promised land. The grow and improvements Poland has gone through since the cold war are something they can be proud of.
Dude is talking about last 10 years. This trajectory is lasting for last 35 years. Not too bad for a nation that suffered communism, was a playfield for two world wars, was partitioned and wasn't granted a Marshall plan funds.
exactly! we might ignore the partitions because they were still at least partially beneficial (regions were being developed more or less) but the XX century was a total disaster - cities destroyed, intellectual elites destroyed, young men destroyed and then 40 years of soviet tyranny (market destroyed, war heroes sent to gulags, further oppression of the elites and this fucked up stalinist absurdism everywhere) - all of this produced space for the growth and is not well understood by people from more fortunate countries. war is such a waste.
I can just imagine 3 Polish blokes sitting in a pub in 15 years complaining the British come over here, take the jobs and they dont even speak the bloody language!
I'm not sure if I'm being oversensitive but to me it sounds a bit asholoish to say that "I'm not fine with the fact that polish economy might surpass UK economy". Is Poland supposed to stay always behind western Europe in order to make boomer English politicians happy?
A lot of Brits still think they matter in today's world. Poland is a success story, remember, for most of their history they have been subjugated, between big world powers and under communism. UK was the world's biggest and most cruel imperial power. A lot of people in the UK are not up with the times and it shows
What surprises me is that "being overtaken by Poland" is used as an insult and sorce of complete disgrace; a bit like "being overtaken by cavemen." Is it just my wounded polish pride tallking, or is it a bit racist?
It’s slightly racist, but let’s remember that 20 yrs ago Polish rush to the UK accepting any jobs, living in terrible conditions. The situation has changed. Poland has developed nicely and keeps growing. Yet in the Brits minds the image from the past is still vivid. There’s any informative programme on British TV not only about Poland but about the whole EU. Brits don’t learn much about the history of the continent, they do speak any languages, don’t understand the current affairs and they don’t have much information on what’s going elsewhere. Hence it’s hard to accept that the situation has changed.
@@NieJestemEubulidesem it is racists. I am “lucky” daughter-in-law of boomers who were once in Poland, in early 80’s, for short trip through Cracow. They still think about Poland in 80’s category. They have no clue about progress it made. So yes, they treat it as the insult, but in the same time they run to polish dentist to do their teeth in their town because it’s the only one who is competent and do the job well 🤷♀️ and I am the only one in the “family” with master degree. But yes we pol scare worse for old British boomers.
August 1939 Polands economy was ranked 20th in the world . 1989 when Poland regained its freedom it was ranked ruffly the 100th biggest economy in the world . Getting back to where it used to be . Nothing shocking about it .
Polish economy was a disaster before the war, most people worked in agriculture, people couldn't read or write and the country was ran by oligarchs. Now we're the most educated workforce in Europe and about to overtake Spain and Italy
@@NeroN7290153 Dont forget that in those 20 years Poland had a war with Bolshevik Russia It was highly unstable, Ukrainians, Jews, Belarusians, Russians, Lithuanians and Czechs within Poland tried to all kill each other on daily basis. Poland was a hot mess in those times
What? 1939 Poland ranked 20th in the is so untrue. It is the same type of bullshit that Gierek told Poles in 70th. Poland in 1939 was a poor, backward country. That is a true.
It is, but I was always calling bs on Starmer's projection, it's not based on facts. But being a couple percentages behind UK by 2030 or 2050 is where we want to be, it's good and achievable.
Worst case scenario Poland will be 8% behind the UK. That is, Poland will be marginally behind a former global superpower. As a Polish person, I rub my eyes in disbelief. But I’d rather Poland get there due to it’s success rather than UK’s misery.
Look in history book and see that its not a kind of a miracle but rather a situation where Poland has the opportunity for uninterrupted growth and economy developement. When such environment lasts for at least a century, Polish economy grows to become one of five major European ones.
What is the british obsession with Poland? Poland was left by allies France and the UK behind the iron curtain where it shouldn’t develop for the next 40 years, and now it’s catching up. Poland was never meant to be a poor country, it’s all about the history.
I suspect (I may be wrong) that it is about dividing the rest of Europe into better ones (France, Germany) with which to compete, and worse ones (Poland and the rest of Central Europe) which is only supposed to provide hands for simple jobs, and the fact that they are outperforming the British economically is a sign of the very poor state of the economy.
Poland used to be the eponymous "poor country" + it's too far for the UK (France, and so on) to pay close attention to what's happening two countries over.
@@Dylan-q9l2v Yes, there is a reason so many countries want to invade, envy, jealousy, it's natural beauty, beautiful cities and the hardest working people in Europe! Rebuilding their capital city was a monumental task of national pride, especially when there was no help from the West, like the Marshall Plan!
tbh even if PL does not overtake the UK, having just an 8% gap between the two, with the context that PL only had a free market for 35 years, while the UK had one for centuries, is astonishing
Now compare this to a certain group of people who still blame their failures on colonization, and there is probably no country in the world that has been destroyed as often in the last 200 years as Poland.
@@adammarkowski5502Poland had semi free market for 20 years between 1 and 2 WW. Otherwise it has been under occupation or communism. And now we have free trade
true….all those patriotic brits sat on their arses taking furlough money and Brexit hard Gal, Patel, had to fly EU workers in to pick our British strawberries!! Oh the irony….eh?
True, but they get a lot of EU funds though. They get the most EU funds of the EU. That is gonna stop. Growth will slow down a bit and they will be the ones giving other countries EU funds.
I'm in Poland at the moment. The difference is clear: a young, dynamic, intelligent, hard-working and polite people with a clear pride in their nation (if the number of Polish flags is anything to go by). It makes Britain look tired and giving up. Not only will Poland's GDP be higher by 2030, its quality of life has already overtaken the UK, with cheap prices, affordable housing and great public transport. If we were still in the EU, I'd be happy to put down roots here.
Entire UK is build on looted money, so they should not expect incredible economy. Without that money they wouldn't be came this far they should be thankful to those countries.
Why GDP largely do not matter and is a flawed incicator? Living in both Uk and Poland i realized that Polish familly is doing way better than British one on average for some years now, 70% of the population in Poland owns an house or flat, have good car, way better services, better communication, better health care, polish cities are packed with bootics, restaurants, lots of small shops, something that i saw dissapearing from Uk's towns and i would argue the slaray purchase power is better in Poland as well in last 2-4 years. Visiting friends in both countries, polish houses looks clean and luxurious in comparison. I think Uk has failed to create a diversified economy, meanwhile holding to very generous social money giveaway festiwal, they could not afford long term and that was abused by lazy shits from abroad and lower society paracites that should be out there working. Shamely, Poland is doing the same, with each party throwing out new handouts for this and that bullshit...
The point about the economy not being diversified is actually really important. Poland has a robust industrial and service industry. The UK has only a thriving financial industry, whose profits however are mostly shifted to Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Qatar, America, etc. And the industrial sector was deliberately destroyed by the Tories to kill the old Labour Party.
Brexiteers couldn't stand the sight of Polish people coming to this country working hard and contributing to our economy, so they have since gone home and are now contributing to their own economy.
@@user-ug8wx5er1w Poland has given out more work permits than any other EU country in the last two years in a row. They are not against immigration, they just prefer responsible immigration.
The problem is that due to political correctness, the British were unable to admit to themselves what immigration was their real problem, so they blamed it, as usual, on the Poles. The same as when Brits blamed General Sosabowski for Monty's own mistakes in Market Garden Operation.
Living in Warsaw last 2 years, Poland is incredibly doing well and with its educated, open minded people; well mannered culture; society respecting nature and others' background... it deserves to be far ahead in the game. Never experienced another country in Europe who is hungry to learn other (non-anglo saxon) identities and history
I mean Poland used to be in the top 10 economies in the world, and biggest country in Europe at one point, but they suffered the Swedish Deluge in which 25% of them died in the 1600s, followed by partitions by Germany,Austria and Russia which then used their populace as conscripts to fight each other and their land was being used as the main battle ground on the eastern front of WW1, and more recently WW2 in which 20% of them died and Warsaw was erased off the map and had to be rebuilt brick by brick, not to mention 50 years of forced communism after. WW2 didn't even end in 1945 for Poland, while people were celebrating on the streets of London, Polish resistence fought the USSR into the 50s, so yes Poland after just 30 years of freedom and peace is getting back to where they naturally should be.
Due to the extremely flawed political system of the Commonwealth (as it was called - it wasn't just poland but also lithuania and ruthenia) and the culture at the time, I would say that what happened in the 17th, and later 18th century is more like a symptom than a cause...
@@JanSoltan-wj1hs That was fixed. The golden veto was abolished in a new constitution, cant remember what year in the 1700s, but Poland abolishing the veto meant it could no longer be controlled by foreign powers from within which lead to Catherine the Great invading, followed by Prussia, which wiped the nation off the map. Had they been given a chance at statehood under this new constitution without Russia and Prussia invading they would have prospered again.
@@moscuadelendaestI moved to Poland after 15 years and I miss scones so much 🤣 I brought some clotted cream and froze it and will attempt to bake scones soon! Wish me luck! 🫣🤞🏻
We kicked the Poles out because of Brexit and invited thousands and thousands of Indians in, to replace them. Britain will end up an Indian colony. I have just returned from Poland. Feeling of safety and a country not wracked by the strictures of race and “inclusivity”. They are well versed in their tragic underdog history and are determined to protect their country, their identity and their traditions. We have thrown all that away through complacency.
One of the very few issues polish economy is struggling with right now is labour shortage (nearly everyone has a job so there's nobody else to employ), so I say yes UK keep it up, keep sending us workers 🥰
Slovenia's median standard of living has already overtaken Britain's according to the Financial Times. That's a better indication of the state of play than GDP per Capita. The FT also pointed out that, using the metric of Median Standard of Living, Poland will be overtaking Britain soon. This is what Brexit and fourteen years of miserable Tory failure has delivered for Britain; Eastern European living standards. Countries that were Communist until the 1990s are leaving Britain behind. Never thought I'd see the day... but here we are.
This is massive immigration downsides GGDP per capita now 30th in the world, nothing to do with brexit at all your suggestion would be that all EU countries are doing better than those outside which is a massive lie!
Pole here, living in Manchester. I've just said goodbye to a friend who, after 17 years, decided to go back because 'perspectives are better back home'. Of course this is context related, as per video, these projections are big simplifications, but it's really striking how bad UK economy for a normal Joe has become. And it all started long before brexit. UK is the 6th biggest economy in the world. It really should be doing so much better. There so no excuse.
*"And it all started long before brexit. "* - I think it was a key factor in Brexit. Brits being so fed up of austerity and working to be poor, that they voted for Brexit just to annoy the Tory government.
Superpower is a bit of a stretch. Poland can't be that anytime soon due to bad geographical location, low natural resources, low population, and stronger neighbors
@@GDB11 I would recommend reading The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century That’s not my person hot take, it’s quite a well founded opinion.
@@mattnoble9500 Yes Poland being a front country for the US. It seems like US is being quite slow with the implementation of this plan. They better hurry up before it’s too late and they’re kicked out of Eurasia.
Whether they overtake us or not, relative to cost of living the UK is getting poorer, Poland is getting wealthier. That is clearly demonstrated in teh figures.
polish agriculture is totally uncompetitive. it produces goods for €10 bln and getting 25th bln subsidies from EU budget. In another hand polish government banned all competitors on their market. so, it's just a question of little time when unproductive polish agriculture will be destroyed by much powerful agriculture countries.
We dont need to be superpower, we only want to do right things in right way without being bothered by anyone. But we live between Germany and Russia and that is the problem.
our failures in history were caused by the lack of subjectivity in the international arena, so it is natural that we will strive for the highest possible political position among countries in order not to repeat history. Perhaps this is also a path towards superpower status, we'll see Wise countries notice our ambitions, they show it by how our diplomats are treated in China, the USA or how Russia wants to discredit us in the regime's media. Only the countries of Western Europe, in their ignorance, try not to notice the increasing importance of Poland in the world
Who could've imagined in the 80s that Ireland would become richer than the UK? Just because Poland is growing from a small base and has a lot of historic issues to deal with doesn't man they won't outgrow that. Conversely, just because the UK is still relatively wealthy and powerful doesn't mean it can't land very, very roughly if it continues on this trajectory.
Few people are wealthy and rest of UK citizens live from month to month just to pay all expenses and dept if government has money doesn't mean people have many too
Fact is that Poland (actually the whole Eastern Europe) is a huge economic success thanks to EU membership and the Polish people themselves. The economic center in Europe is shifting East and like it or not, it s bad news for the UK.
And maybe it has to do something with sending aid to Ukraine which we cannot afford while being an accomplice in destroying nations with the United States and following US foreign policy without a brain @TG-ts3xn
@@user-ug8wx5er1wPoland and Eastern Europe get the most EU funds. They have to pay the EU to not take immigrants actually. They do have a immigration problem, because Belarus has been pushing migrants into Poland for years. The scenes at the Polish Belarus border are insane. They also took millions of Ukrainians. The most compared to other EU countries. They have the most immigrants of the EU right now. It can't be immigration.
Most of the Brits are unable to comprehend that the Polish GPD will soon surpass their country's GPD. They are racist towards eastern Europe but the thruth is that the standard of living in Poland is already higher than in the UK, and many Poles are returning from there
Starmer : "If things continue the way they are, we will fall behind Poland" Sky News : "If things don't continue the way they are, we won't, so he's wrong"
I think what is mostly worrying in this presentation, is not that Poland getting richer, but the fact that whole Western Europe started lacking behind USA!
That 8% is only if UK exceeds the GDP predictions and Poland will have lower GDP then predicted. If UK stays where it is and Poland predictions will be lower its only 3% behind in 2030 and surpass by 2031. Also this chart is old it was predicted that poland will increase I quarter 2.8% and it did 3.2% and IV quarter is 5%. So if things go as they are Poland > UK by 2029 xD
Visually Poland looks better than UK. Polish houses are better, roads better, shops better, trains better, is cleaner a nd safer. It it obvious who lives in UK and visited Poland. Poland looks better than even Germany. I think Brits who first time come to Poland could be shocked how far UK is behind Poland.
yesterday I slept in a four-star hotel in London - when entering the room I was shocked .... some Polish two-star hotels have a higher standard, cleanliness and service.
This is not a Polish miracle, but the hard work of Poles who stayed in the country despite difficult conditions. Who learn and work hard for future generations.
I moved back to Poland from the UK this year and as an IT professional I'm better off financially than I used to be. Let's hope Poland will continue to grow while mainting it's cultural integrity (unlike some of our European neighbours).
There is one thing about Poland uk don’t have. Free universities, because of that it realises incomparable more engineers, doctors every year on the work market then uk, poles often spoke more than one language, Poland in last 15 years became a China of European Union and UK. Even after brexit most of your new gutter, windows, toilet & toilet furnitures, all IKEA furnitures are from Poland. Poland was heavy investing into development and infrastructure in last 30 years and it didn’t stop, still continue on the same path. Meanwhile UK stop investing nearly completely in big projects and new roads. I am really sorry Brits but how is your polish?
W Polsce mają być ludzie którzy chcą pracować na rozwój kraju żeby każdemu z nas żyło się lepiej i póki są to legalni migranci nie widzę w tym żadnego problemu @@garigari5494
Hopefully, all the Poles that went home after Brexit will remember how nicely the British people treated them while they were here... when we're immigrants in their country. Wait, on second thought....
I used to run small construction company in London for 15 years. I’ve relocated back to Poland in 2020 because of hard Brexit. UK will always be second home for me with very special place in my heart. Good luck!
If it weren't for the world wars, Poland would be a very wealthy country and would dictate the conditions like Germany does in Europe today. Poland has already been a power in Europe for almost 300 years and I am surprised that European history textbooks forget about this fact.
Poland wouldn’t exist if the world wars didn’t happen. The only reason it became a country was because the German Empire and Russian Empire was forced to give it up.
Im in the UK, and glad Poland is doing so well. They are the one strong barrier we have against Putin, and a model for what the EU can bring to former Eastern Block Countries. Their prosperity and Russia's decline is the only way to stop despotic warmongers.
In what way is Russia declining? Russia recorded the highest rate of growth in the developed world in 2023. Its economy has already overtaken that of Germany by PPP.
Poland deserve to be on the top, I've met many nice polish people are very hardworking and honest . No wonder why their country is thriving economically that quickly.
I drove through Poland last year and large parts of it now definitely look better off than parts of the UK. Places like South Wales and Stoke look dreadful in comparison.
Newly renovated. Eastern Germany also looks better than the Western part in many places. But there is more to that - Poles are very proud of their country, are more egalitarian and in general the structure of the society is different.
Currently: Cost of Living in Poland is 34.0% lower than in United Kingdom (without rent) Cost of Living Including Rent in Poland is 37.4% lower than in United Kingdom Rent Prices in Poland are 44.7% lower than in United Kingdom Restaurant Prices in Poland are 44.2% lower than in United Kingdom Groceries Prices in Poland are 35.4% lower than in United Kingdom Local Purchasing Power in Poland is 25.5% lower than in United Kingdom The last item is changing rapidly.
As a Polish American who knows very little about Poland and Europe, I am disgusted and surprised by the almost rude language towards the Polish nation.
“Almost rude” it’s fully rude and xenophobic. With other immigrants at least fear of coming out as racist is stopping them from acting out their post imperial snobism. When the subject is Polish people they are just openly mocking us.
I love the British mentality... They think they still rule half the world, while Singapore, their former colony has long overtaken them, and more countries will do the same thanks to Brexit.
Regardless if it will overtake the UK by then or not, Poland's growth has been extremely impressive and it will continue to grow at a strong pace for a while.
That's the question what will happen. So far the work is still cheap in Poland, when this is over then I am really curious whether they will make it to become a rich country.
The 3 pillars of the UK economy. 1. The City Of London. 2. Scottish Energy. 3. The Rest. 'The Rest' barely qualifies for first world status!. This is from a continental Geography school text book.
I came back to Poland 6 years ago after 11 y in UK. I don't thing that Poland can overtake UK however a think that overall standard of living in Poland now can already compete with UK.
I'm Polish, working hard for my country and I really like what I see at the end of this video. Even if it's a bit overestimated, we are getting there. Sooner or later
e x a c t l y. who cares if it happens in 2030 , 2050 or 2080, I don't care. We are getting there sooner or later anyway, we are on the right track. Given that living in Poland right now is not bad at all already, and it will only get better
@@shif06 the diffrence being, one is culturaly similar, and other is culturaly far diffrent. Ukrainians, believe it or not, mostly are hard working, same with Poles. Illegall immigrants, on other hand, are more unpredictable.
@@Alaryk111UK has a worst Gini index than France. It's more like a disparity between the 1000 billion euros GDP of Paris Ile de France vs the rest of the country (1800 billion €). France is developing the south and the east of the county to balance. UK has the same problem, but no other rich region outside London to compensate. It's a big problem, because Manchester, Birmingham and Liverpool are dwarfed by London and as risked bankrupts in recent years😅😅😅
English exceptionalism (and fatalism). We are talking about a 5-year projection, not a 30-year projection. OECD projections and ECB projections show slightly different figures than that of the IMF, and it is highly likely that Poland will overtake the UK within 5 years. There is another reason why this might happen. The Polish population is younger than the English population, and they will see people from abroad returning.
more capitalism = more shorttermism. In the UK capitalism is extreme, hence the result. Then the UK has been taken over and is run by the US. Basically it is a colony. Just wait for Trump to come back. The country will be sucked to the bone.
I tu się mylisz. Tusk w przeciwieństwie do PIS realizuje pimolitykę zwijania Polski. Zatrzymano wszystkie duże inwestycje, wprowadzono cenzurę mediów. Na niespotykaną skalę wyprzedaje się za darmo polskie firmy. Polska słabnie przez folksdojczy i zdrajców jak tusk i jego banda złodziei.
For sure Poland can do this obviously even more likely so as Britain keeps sanctioning itself while Poland believes in cooperation in a strong European Union. Greetings from Belgium.
Starmer didn't say anything about it happening by 2030... Poland is still growing faster and will likely overtake the UK in GDP per capita as a result.
there is no economy in the UK really, there is a housing casino that sucks all the money it can do, then there is Bank of England that sucks further dozens of billions ... the crumbs are left to the population to buy bread, butter and milk and pay for dirty water and overpriced electricity and gas. The UK is top class scam!
@@Jorden.Florence First, the Teheran Conference, then the Yalta Conference. We were sold to Stalin and our gov-in-exile (located in the UK) was not even able to celebrate the victory against the Germans during the victory parade.
This guy is lying to your faces! It's about how well off a Polish household is vs a UK one. And believe me, by 2030 Polish households will be better off than UK ones (on average at least)!
@TG-ts3xn Immigrants seem to work harder than your average brit. Is sad to see so many British people are on drugs or benefits and refuse to work. And these same people are angry that Immigrants are coming to replace them in the job market. The benefit system in this country is encouraging people to be lazy and that is having a huge impact on the economy.
I am particularly interested in how much wealthier (or poorer) certain regions of the UK are compared to specific parts of Poland. The Warsaw or Gdańsk regions are for example much wealthier than the Bradford area. In the UK, the difference between rich and "poor" is very large, with most of the wealth being generated in London. People living and working outside of London are considerably less wealthy. Many Poles are already considerable more wealthier than many Britons. Also, an 8 percent difference in GDP is not really a cause for celebration for the UK.
Cant happen as it's too late for the formation of oligarchs in Poland. Oligarchs are created by sudden privitisation of state assets, benefiting individuals. As seen at the collapse of the USSR, Russian and Ukrainian individuals were basically able to capture entire state assets like oil companies for themselves through corruption. Poland instead didn't privatise at first and basically had the idea of letting new capitalist private companies compete against the public ones, which worked incredibly well and led to not a single oligarch in Poland and a better wealth inequality than in the U.K. for example.
So millions of Poles(decent people) working in the UK then spending in Poland pre Brexit isn't a big part of Polands economic growth? Poland is also extremely safe and clean because of rejecting 3rd world immigration.
@@codswallop164 850k not million of Poles are working and living in UK but this figure from EU - Settled Status now is outdated because the Poles are leaving UK in large numbers. The same goes for Romanians - curriers to Romania are fully booked for a month in advance.
@@MyPrideFlag actually i am half polish and i dont like neither PIS or PO, but PIS so far have many scandals of corruption. So i dont believe they are better than PO 😅 and remain parties are just small useless once
It makes me wonder why Brits are so touched and jealous somehow about polish growth for the past 30 years poland had been the fastest growing economy and every year sustain growth and has been always laughed at by Western Europe makes me wonder…lets face it poland is full of educated and hard working in people and is going to be the richest country in Europe soon,i ve already seen many English people gone to Poland for cheaper life and much safer and some of the highly skilled jobs are already better paid than in Uk .Poland has been under attacks and has been damaged by all those enemies and wars throughout the centuries otherwise Polish economy would be biggest economy in Europe long time ago.
Of course that’s only a prediction, yet apart from the chart there’s also reality. Why not compare transportation in the both countries? The quality of buildings, medical facilities, education or motorways? Maybe that would be too shocking for the Great Britain to realise what’s happening in the UK ?
Believe or not, Tyskie is piss. We have hundreds of craft breweries which are far better. Your concept of Polish beer is outdated, mate... so visit Poland and try some real POLISH beer :D
Not just Brexit, although it certainly didn’t help. It is bureaucracy (it’s almost impossible to build something in Britain), austerity and low productivity growth.
@@iwiwt Bureaucracy and austerity are all over Europe and the world do not use these as an excuse for UK under performance...low productivity and brexit are however very much a part of UK economic issues.
Forget the graphs the point is simple. Poland's economy is thriving, ours is not. Ask the questions why and address them. The UK is full of creative talented people that the system is not getting the most out of them and we need a bold plan to grow the economy. Neither Sunak or Starmer are bold enough. Neither have a true vision. they're 'Managers', not leaders.
@@mattinterweb Essentially all the smaller and lesser EU countries are in fact thriving economically though Germany, France and Italy are having difficulties of all sorts not least economically.
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A bit rude to Poland. Good for them that their economy is doing well.
India already took over UK in-terms of GDP growth 😅
@@maheshrathod204So Poland will overtake every country on Earth by 2050 according to this logic
Yea but he probably use them as an example because most people here aren't that knowledgeable and think Poland is still some 2nd world country
@@Emerald_Forge most Brits still seem to think that Poles treat the UK as the promised land.
The grow and improvements Poland has gone through since the cold war are something they can be proud of.
@@maheshrathod204 this is a comparison of gdp per capita, which India is massively below the UK
Dude is talking about last 10 years. This trajectory is lasting for last 35 years. Not too bad for a nation that suffered communism, was a playfield for two world wars, was partitioned and wasn't granted a Marshall plan funds.
exactly! we might ignore the partitions because they were still at least partially beneficial (regions were being developed more or less) but the XX century was a total disaster - cities destroyed, intellectual elites destroyed, young men destroyed and then 40 years of soviet tyranny (market destroyed, war heroes sent to gulags, further oppression of the elites and this fucked up stalinist absurdism everywhere) - all of this produced space for the growth and is not well understood by people from more fortunate countries. war is such a waste.
This puts uk even worse in that perspective
It's insane that a country that has been a battlefield and Russian colony may catch up to the former world's strongest empire.
@@smerfdzikus2334 we already could, if history was different and we weren't partitioned + didn't had communism.
I can just imagine 3 Polish blokes sitting in a pub in 15 years complaining the British come over here, take the jobs and they dont even speak the bloody language!
Like brits in france
This won't happen, after Brexit, British people need a visa to work in Poland :)
@@CatchNoAllywhich they will apply for and get.
@@colberthunter12 or not, isn`t easy
@@CatchNoAlly The Brits will just get an Irish passport. Horray for Brexit 🤣
Poland will be seeing coach full of British immigrants arriving to find work!! 😂😂😂
picking vegies I hope! XD
It sounds strange, but in history, for example, Scots emigrated to Poland for a better life.
But british nurses and doctors are already leaving for Australia
@@lucas4019 Luttuces!!!?? 😝😝
Wouldn't blame them.
I'm not sure if I'm being oversensitive but to me it sounds a bit asholoish to say that "I'm not fine with the fact that polish economy might surpass UK economy". Is Poland supposed to stay always behind western Europe in order to make boomer English politicians happy?
Don't underestimate British racism and narcissism (in people aged 60+)
A lot of Brits still think they matter in today's world. Poland is a success story, remember, for most of their history they have been subjugated, between big world powers and under communism. UK was the world's biggest and most cruel imperial power. A lot of people in the UK are not up with the times and it shows
@MrSergej2000 definitely not most cruel. The opposite is a fact. It was one of the least cruel empires.
Exactly this.
Well said man!
What surprises me is that "being overtaken by Poland" is used as an insult and sorce of complete disgrace; a bit like "being overtaken by cavemen." Is it just my wounded polish pride tallking, or is it a bit racist?
Because boomers in the UK still think "the sun doesn't set on the empire".
They are truly delusional.
Poland just doesn't care.
It’s slightly racist, but let’s remember that 20 yrs ago Polish rush to the UK accepting any jobs, living in terrible conditions.
The situation has changed. Poland has developed nicely and keeps growing.
Yet in the Brits minds the image from the past is still vivid. There’s any informative programme on British TV not only about Poland but about the whole EU.
Brits don’t learn much about the history of the continent, they do speak any languages, don’t understand the current affairs and they don’t have much information on what’s going elsewhere.
Hence it’s hard to accept that the situation has changed.
@@NieJestemEubulidesem it is racists. I am “lucky” daughter-in-law of boomers who were once in Poland, in early 80’s, for short trip through Cracow. They still think about Poland in 80’s category. They have no clue about progress it made. So yes, they treat it as the insult, but in the same time they run to polish dentist to do their teeth in their town because it’s the only one who is competent and do the job well 🤷♀️ and I am the only one in the “family” with master degree. But yes we pol scare worse for old British boomers.
Not racism. Racism is based on skin colour. This is anti polonism. Been therr for ages
August 1939 Polands economy was ranked 20th in the world . 1989 when Poland regained its freedom it was ranked ruffly the 100th biggest economy in the world . Getting back to where it used to be . Nothing shocking about it .
In 1939 there were far fewer number of countries in the world
Polish economy was a disaster before the war, most people worked in agriculture, people couldn't read or write and the country was ran by oligarchs. Now we're the most educated workforce in Europe and about to overtake Spain and Italy
@@NeroN7290153 Dont forget that in those 20 years Poland had a war with Bolshevik Russia It was highly unstable, Ukrainians, Jews, Belarusians, Russians, Lithuanians and Czechs within Poland tried to all kill each other on daily basis. Poland was a hot mess in those times
What? 1939 Poland ranked 20th in the is so untrue. It is the same type of bullshit that Gierek told Poles in 70th. Poland in 1939 was a poor, backward country. That is a true.
@@obersoth09not gonna happen
Tbf Poland is a massive success story.
One of the only one doing immigration right
Because of the stance to keep Christianity ID. I bet Commie wouldn't like that very soon
It is, but I was always calling bs on Starmer's projection, it's not based on facts. But being a couple percentages behind UK by 2030 or 2050 is where we want to be, it's good and achievable.
Because it joined the EU.
@@Sdakouls3it doesn’t follow EU rules though…. And they aren’t fined for it like UK. Hmm.
Worst case scenario Poland will be 8% behind the UK. That is, Poland will be marginally behind a former global superpower. As a Polish person, I rub my eyes in disbelief. But I’d rather Poland get there due to it’s success rather than UK’s misery.
Look in history book and see that its not a kind of a miracle but rather a situation where Poland has the opportunity for uninterrupted growth and economy developement. When such environment lasts for at least a century, Polish economy grows to become one of five major European ones.
‘Auf Wiedersehen, Pet’ thanks to Brexit, seems like cheap British Labour will be heading to Poland soon
What is the british obsession with Poland? Poland was left by allies France and the UK behind the iron curtain where it shouldn’t develop for the next 40 years, and now it’s catching up. Poland was never meant to be a poor country, it’s all about the history.
Copium
I suspect (I may be wrong) that it is about dividing the rest of Europe into better ones (France, Germany) with which to compete, and worse ones (Poland and the rest of Central Europe) which is only supposed to provide hands for simple jobs, and the fact that they are outperforming the British economically is a sign of the very poor state of the economy.
Poland used to be the eponymous "poor country" + it's too far for the UK (France, and so on) to pay close attention to what's happening two countries over.
@@Dylan-q9l2v
Yes, there is a reason so many countries want to invade, envy, jealousy, it's natural beauty, beautiful cities and the hardest working people in Europe!
Rebuilding their capital city was a monumental task of national pride, especially when there was no help from the West, like the Marshall Plan!
Because there is a large Polish population in the UK, lots came during WW2.
tbh even if PL does not overtake the UK, having just an 8% gap between the two, with the context that PL only had a free market for 35 years, while the UK had one for centuries, is astonishing
Now compare this to a certain group of people who still blame their failures on colonization, and there is probably no country in the world that has been destroyed as often in the last 200 years as Poland.
Poland have always free market too except 50 years of communism. What's 50 years episode in over 1000 years of history ?
@@adammarkowski5502 50 years of communism is a huge toll
@@adammarkowski5502Poland had semi free market for 20 years between 1 and 2 WW. Otherwise it has been under occupation or communism.
And now we have free trade
@ZdLa23322 yeah, but it wasn't due to state investments.
Like stare actively suppressed Polish businesses and innovativeness
Poland deserve to have a better economy , they work harder and the country is not full of freeloaders
true….all those patriotic brits sat on their arses taking furlough money and Brexit hard Gal, Patel, had to fly EU workers in to pick our British strawberries!! Oh the irony….eh?
@@earnestequivocation6250 Yes, well said
True, but they get a lot of EU funds though. They get the most EU funds of the EU. That is gonna stop. Growth will slow down a bit and they will be the ones giving other countries EU funds.
They all sit around whinging about the EU and contribute feck all to the economy
@@Joey-ct8bm Yes , very true
I'm in Poland at the moment. The difference is clear: a young, dynamic, intelligent, hard-working and polite people with a clear pride in their nation (if the number of Polish flags is anything to go by). It makes Britain look tired and giving up. Not only will Poland's GDP be higher by 2030, its quality of life has already overtaken the UK, with cheap prices, affordable housing and great public transport. If we were still in the EU, I'd be happy to put down roots here.
*Why aren't Brits migrating to other English speaking countries like America, Canada, Australia and NZ?*
@user-cb3lp1sm3f they are moving to those countries. A lot of NHS nurses are now on the US.
@@saiyedakhtar3931USA is about to fall apart so Canada and this is globalists designed plan for it
Niemcy,Polska. Już od pięciu lat nie używam gotówki. Tylko karta,blik i zapłata telefonem..W Niemczech tak nie ma. .
@@robertklimczak5630 to wcale nie znaczy że jest lepsze.
OK, so the UK will always be 8% ahead of Poland. I can trade that for better housing standards, lower levels of crime, and better food.
No chyba cie coś boli że Niemcy i Francja na to pozwolą.
Naślą inżynierów przyjaciele z Europy i się skończy polaczkowanie
@@gunter4476To jedź na Białoruś, powodzenia!
@@emzonik8851 po co?
@@emzonik8851 dla mnie to bardzo dobrze ze Polska ich dostanie bo nie lubie tego kraju.
It is 2050 and the British are moving to Poland on mass to pick potatoes and clean toilets💪
That is funny.
They arrive in small boats with blue passports and no teeth
Oh, boy, that would be so satisfactory.
Entire UK is build on looted money, so they should not expect incredible economy. Without that money they wouldn't be came this far they should be thankful to those countries.
This won't happen, after Brexit, British people need a visa to work in Poland :)
Why GDP largely do not matter and is a flawed incicator? Living in both Uk and Poland i realized that Polish familly is doing way better than British one on average for some years now, 70% of the population in Poland owns an house or flat, have good car, way better services, better communication, better health care, polish cities are packed with bootics, restaurants, lots of small shops, something that i saw dissapearing from Uk's towns and i would argue the slaray purchase power is better in Poland as well in last 2-4 years. Visiting friends in both countries, polish houses looks clean and luxurious in comparison.
I think Uk has failed to create a diversified economy, meanwhile holding to very generous social money giveaway festiwal, they could not afford long term and that was abused by lazy shits from abroad and lower society paracites that should be out there working. Shamely, Poland is doing the same, with each party throwing out new handouts for this and that bullshit...
The point about the economy not being diversified is actually really important. Poland has a robust industrial and service industry. The UK has only a thriving financial industry, whose profits however are mostly shifted to Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Qatar, America, etc. And the industrial sector was deliberately destroyed by the Tories to kill the old Labour Party.
konfa voter spotted
@@moscuadelendaest czyli człowiek statystycznie mądrzejszy od przeciętnego wyborcy.
Go Poland! Love from Germany 🇩🇪🤍🇵🇱
Hmmm..... didn't Germany extend a little too much love for Poland?
And love from Poland!
@@the_star_wars_vault-1711 ...best we don't talk about Germany's 'interest' in Poland.😉
Be careful when any German offers enthusiasm towards your country
Weimar Triangle! Cooperate and let's develop together
Poland is one of two countries in Europe that i like 😂😂😂. Love Poland🇺🇲🇵🇱
what's the other one?
No way! American who knows what Poland is
Another country I love besides Poland is the US. Greetings! 🇺🇲🇵🇱
@@GutekLifeClips Found the tiny islander.
Brexiteers couldn't stand the sight of Polish people coming to this country working hard and contributing to our economy, so they have since gone home and are now contributing to their own economy.
Sooo Polands immigration and Islam policies….
@@user-ug8wx5er1w Poland has given out more work permits than any other EU country in the last two years in a row. They are not against immigration, they just prefer responsible immigration.
@@user-ug8wx5er1wislam policies have nothing to do with it. They're separate
As a Pole I want to say I still want to come to England to work .. but I can't .. the visas are so expensive... Been workin in the UK 10 years
The problem is that due to political correctness, the British were unable to admit to themselves what immigration was their real problem, so they blamed it, as usual, on the Poles. The same as when Brits blamed General Sosabowski for Monty's own mistakes in Market Garden Operation.
Living in Warsaw last 2 years, Poland is incredibly doing well and with its educated, open minded people; well mannered culture; society respecting nature and others' background... it deserves to be far ahead in the game. Never experienced another country in Europe who is hungry to learn other (non-anglo saxon) identities and history
I mean Poland used to be in the top 10 economies in the world, and biggest country in Europe at one point, but they suffered the Swedish Deluge in which 25% of them died in the 1600s, followed by partitions by Germany,Austria and Russia which then used their populace as conscripts to fight each other and their land was being used as the main battle ground on the eastern front of WW1, and more recently WW2 in which 20% of them died and Warsaw was erased off the map and had to be rebuilt brick by brick, not to mention 50 years of forced communism after. WW2 didn't even end in 1945 for Poland, while people were celebrating on the streets of London, Polish resistence fought the USSR into the 50s, so yes Poland after just 30 years of freedom and peace is getting back to where they naturally should be.
Due to the extremely flawed political system of the Commonwealth (as it was called - it wasn't just poland but also lithuania and ruthenia) and the culture at the time, I would say that what happened in the 17th, and later 18th century is more like a symptom than a cause...
@@JanSoltan-wj1hs That was fixed. The golden veto was abolished in a new constitution, cant remember what year in the 1700s, but Poland abolishing the veto meant it could no longer be controlled by foreign powers from within which lead to Catherine the Great invading, followed by Prussia, which wiped the nation off the map. Had they been given a chance at statehood under this new constitution without Russia and Prussia invading they would have prospered again.
@@CatSounds-u9f Well, the constitution was too little too late...
@@JanSoltan-wj1hs "ruthenia" nope it was Poland and Lithuania.
I sometimes wonder how Commonwealth would fare if not for liberum veto and so foreign influence.
I'm English and moving to Poland next year
Bring scones!
How work visa or ?
@@moscuadelendaestI moved to Poland after 15 years and I miss scones so much 🤣 I brought some clotted cream and froze it and will attempt to bake scones soon! Wish me luck! 🫣🤞🏻
Welcome!
yea everyone is cooming to us now btw in energylandia 1/8 of peopels were arabs or peoples from asia
We kicked the Poles out because of Brexit and invited thousands and thousands of Indians in, to replace them. Britain will end up an Indian colony. I have just returned from Poland. Feeling of safety and a country not wracked by the strictures of race and “inclusivity”. They are well versed in their tragic underdog history and are determined to protect their country, their identity and their traditions. We have thrown all that away through complacency.
One of the very few issues polish economy is struggling with right now is labour shortage (nearly everyone has a job so there's nobody else to employ), so I say yes UK keep it up, keep sending us workers 🥰
Slovenia's median standard of living has already overtaken Britain's according to the Financial Times. That's a better indication of the state of play than GDP per Capita. The FT also pointed out that, using the metric of Median Standard of Living, Poland will be overtaking Britain soon.
This is what Brexit and fourteen years of miserable Tory failure has delivered for Britain; Eastern European living standards. Countries that were Communist until the 1990s are leaving Britain behind.
Never thought I'd see the day... but here we are.
This is massive immigration downsides GGDP per capita now 30th in the world, nothing to do with brexit at all your suggestion would be that all EU countries are doing better than those outside which is a massive lie!
It’s because they get eu funds and the benefits of the eu, the uk chose Brexit and this is what happened
@@Phyt5 Lol no the UK always paid in more than it got out. There are no benefits except more authoritarian state!
they also took billions from uk for the past 20 years and have only about 5 million people
This is pretty skewed
Congratulations to Poland 🇵🇱 for the amazing 30 years of growth the number one economic success story in Europe
In reality polish people’s are very hard working they deserve it .
No… Polish are intelligent and very efficient they prefer smart and intelligent approach instead of blood sweat and tears.
@@just.observer4648 i agree with the fact, that they are intelligent and very efficent, but we're also really hard working👍👍
Pole here, living in Manchester.
I've just said goodbye to a friend who, after 17 years, decided to go back because 'perspectives are better back home'.
Of course this is context related, as per video, these projections are big simplifications, but it's really striking how bad UK economy for a normal Joe has become.
And it all started long before brexit.
UK is the 6th biggest economy in the world. It really should be doing so much better. There so no excuse.
*"And it all started long before brexit. "* - I think it was a key factor in Brexit. Brits being so fed up of austerity and working to be poor, that they voted for Brexit just to annoy the Tory government.
Brexit!!!
So many Poles are fleeing back, I must say I'm not sure how long for I will survive in here. The new Labour budget may be the last straw for me.
Poland’s success is not a matter of the UK’s failings - Poland was targeted to be the next superpower in Europe for decades
Superpower is a bit of a stretch. Poland can't be that anytime soon due to bad geographical location, low natural resources, low population, and stronger neighbors
@@GDB11 I would recommend reading The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century
That’s not my person hot take, it’s quite a well founded opinion.
@@mattnoble9500 thanks for sharing - that is helpful
@@mattnoble9500 Yes Poland being a front country for the US. It seems like US is being quite slow with the implementation of this plan. They better hurry up before it’s too late and they’re kicked out of Eurasia.
@@GDB11 poland has a ton of natural resources...
Whether they overtake us or not, relative to cost of living the UK is getting poorer, Poland is getting wealthier. That is clearly demonstrated in teh figures.
POLAND MENTIONED 🦅🦅🦅🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
polish agriculture is totally uncompetitive. it produces goods for €10 bln and getting 25th bln subsidies from EU budget. In another hand polish government banned all competitors on their market. so, it's just a question of little time when unproductive polish agriculture will be destroyed by much powerful agriculture countries.
Netherlands
@TravisSansbury Netherlands ALSO MENTIONED ❤❤💪💪💪💪💪🇳🇱🇳🇱🇳🇱
@@TravisSansbury what a sigma
Dutch East India 🇲🇨🇲🇨🇲🇨🇲🇨🇲🇨
Poland deserves the become a super power again.
They are not stupid and focus on family and country first .
We focus on our future and living our lives not 'family or country first'. We're not some backwards trad christofascist utopia ffs
We dont need to be superpower, we only want to do right things in right way without being bothered by anyone. But we live between Germany and Russia and that is the problem.
our failures in history were caused by the lack of subjectivity in the international arena, so it is natural that we will strive for the highest possible political position among countries in order not to repeat history.
Perhaps this is also a path towards superpower status, we'll see
Wise countries notice our ambitions, they show it by how our diplomats are treated in China, the USA or how Russia wants to discredit us in the regime's media. Only the countries of Western Europe, in their ignorance, try not to notice the increasing importance of Poland in the world
@@rafadrzewiecki1905Germany still to this day pays reparations for the second world war. How are they so bad now? Is this some kind of PiS speech?
Who could've imagined in the 80s that Ireland would become richer than the UK? Just because Poland is growing from a small base and has a lot of historic issues to deal with doesn't man they won't outgrow that. Conversely, just because the UK is still relatively wealthy and powerful doesn't mean it can't land very, very roughly if it continues on this trajectory.
Few people are wealthy and rest of UK citizens live from month to month just to pay all expenses and dept if government has money doesn't mean people have many too
Ireland isn't very rich as far as I know, people are poorer than English, it's just a tax heaven for corporations.
Since when Irish are richer?
@@Bogna1since 2001 😉🤷♂️
@@Polarcurve81 I know people moving from Ireland to UK because of higher earnings.
Fact is that Poland (actually the whole Eastern Europe) is a huge economic success thanks to EU membership and the Polish people themselves.
The economic center in Europe is shifting East and like it or not, it s bad news for the UK.
Especially since we are out and struggling to find a market to prosper within, instead of just survive.
I think it’s solely to their immigration and Islam policies.
And maybe it has to do something with sending aid to Ukraine which we cannot afford while being an accomplice in destroying nations with the United States and following US foreign policy without a brain @TG-ts3xn
@TG-ts3xn not everything is about muslims dude,how did a discussion about the state of our economy morph into talking about Islam? 🤦♂️
@@user-ug8wx5er1wPoland and Eastern Europe get the most EU funds. They have to pay the EU to not take immigrants actually. They do have a immigration problem, because Belarus has been pushing migrants into Poland for years. The scenes at the Polish Belarus border are insane. They also took millions of Ukrainians. The most compared to other EU countries. They have the most immigrants of the EU right now. It can't be immigration.
Most of the Brits are unable to comprehend that the Polish GPD will soon surpass their country's GPD. They are racist towards eastern Europe but the thruth is that the standard of living in Poland is already higher than in the UK, and many Poles are returning from there
We look better, than the Brits :)
Starmer : "If things continue the way they are, we will fall behind Poland"
Sky News : "If things don't continue the way they are, we won't, so he's wrong"
Underrated comment.
Spot on mate.
I think what is mostly worrying in this presentation, is not that Poland getting richer, but the fact that whole Western Europe started lacking behind USA!
It's both. Poland is getting richer but West is becoming poorer. More woke agenda, more refugees welcome and a crap productivity = disaster.
News Outlet: "Poland will overtake US economy by 2050"
White House: Release the sanctions
Sanctions will not work when no one will use dollars for business anymore
UK being 8% wealthier than Poland in a realistic scenario will still be shocking to most Brits.
That 8% is only if UK exceeds the GDP predictions and Poland will have lower GDP then predicted. If UK stays where it is and Poland predictions will be lower its only 3% behind in 2030 and surpass by 2031.
Also this chart is old it was predicted that poland will increase I quarter 2.8% and it did 3.2% and IV quarter is 5%. So if things go as they are Poland > UK by 2029 xD
Visually Poland looks better than UK. Polish houses are better, roads better, shops better, trains better, is cleaner a nd safer. It it obvious who lives in UK and visited Poland. Poland looks better than even Germany. I think Brits who first time come to Poland could be shocked how far UK is behind Poland.
yesterday I slept in a four-star hotel in London - when entering the room I was shocked .... some Polish two-star hotels have a higher standard, cleanliness and service.
True, and gardens are not of a size of a tissue. But that's cause the island is smaller with more population.
This is not a Polish miracle, but the hard work of Poles who stayed in the country despite difficult conditions. Who learn and work hard for future generations.
I moved back to Poland from the UK this year and as an IT professional I'm better off financially than I used to be. Let's hope Poland will continue to grow while mainting it's cultural integrity (unlike some of our European neighbours).
There is one thing about Poland uk don’t have. Free universities, because of that it realises incomparable more engineers, doctors every year on the work market then uk, poles often spoke more than one language, Poland in last 15 years became a China of European Union and UK. Even after brexit most of your new gutter, windows, toilet & toilet furnitures, all IKEA furnitures are from Poland. Poland was heavy investing into development and infrastructure in last 30 years and it didn’t stop, still continue on the same path. Meanwhile UK stop investing nearly completely in big projects and new roads. I am really sorry Brits but how is your polish?
It would be ironic to see thousands of British moving to Poland!
Many here would jump at the chance to live in a homogeneous society
And Brits will be welcomed
@@whitecrowuk575Since the UK left the EU, they wouldn’t be freely able to move to Poland.
@@pawelpow true that lol
@@pawelpow 90 days working on the black market.
All the Poles are going home. I'd go with them if i could.
Możesz przyjechać. W Polsce wszystkie dzieci uczą się języka angielskiego i możesz być potrzebny.
@@stanisawkosicki2084 I po co to? Po co nam obcokrajowcy. W Polsce mają być tylko Polacy i ewentualnie inni obywatele krajów słowiańskich.
W Polsce mają być ludzie którzy chcą pracować na rozwój kraju żeby każdemu z nas żyło się lepiej i póki są to legalni migranci nie widzę w tym żadnego problemu @@garigari5494
@@antonstauer6421 nie, nie jest okey. Rozrzedzanie krwi, dzielenie się Polkami. Nigdy w życiu.
@@garigari5494dzielenie się Polkami? Wolę obcokrajowca od Polaka, który o kobietach mówi w taki sposób
polish people work hard AF i worked with them in Germany , i am half french half arab these guys do not play lol
And the best part, Poland's big cities won't look like Pakistan or India.😊
ok "eduardo"
@@jeycalc6877😂
Not sure - the EU is doing a lot to enrich Poland with migrants.
First make a city like Mumbai($280 Billions)
@@Self-is-UltimateReality Mumbai is slum
Good for the Poles. All the ones I met while living in London have been extremely hard workers.
Hopefully, all the Poles that went home after Brexit will remember how nicely the British people treated them while they were here... when we're immigrants in their country.
Wait, on second thought....
I used to run small construction company in London for 15 years. I’ve relocated back to Poland in 2020 because of hard Brexit. UK will always be second home for me with very special place in my heart. Good luck!
As a Pole I am really flattered to see this video:)
Love polish culture true christians from a Norwegian 🇳🇴✝️🇵🇱
Who's christian? Because half of Poles aren't. Fortunately. Greetings from Poland.
Is Poland slowly becoming atheist?
@@youlol7331Christians yes. Practicing - not everybody.
Much love OP. Visiting Norway next week for the first time. Im sure I'll love it
@@tedbed1389 Hope it goes well my friend
If it weren't for the world wars, Poland would be a very wealthy country and would dictate the conditions like Germany does in Europe today. Poland has already been a power in Europe for almost 300 years and I am surprised that European history textbooks forget about this fact.
@sambaliwingoTrue, they don't dictate conditions. They are conditions!
@sambaliwingodont dictate but force them😂😂😂😂
@sambaliwingo they do...
Germany controls the whole of the EU through monetary policy.
Poland wouldn’t exist if the world wars didn’t happen. The only reason it became a country was because the German Empire and Russian Empire was forced to give it up.
Im in the UK, and glad Poland is doing so well. They are the one strong barrier we have against Putin, and a model for what the EU can bring to former Eastern Block Countries. Their prosperity and Russia's decline is the only way to stop despotic warmongers.
In what way is Russia declining? Russia recorded the highest rate of growth in the developed world in 2023. Its economy has already overtaken that of Germany by PPP.
@@victormayomi6223You’re replying to a NAFO bot… 🤦♂️
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@@victormayomi6223 please tell me what's the weather in moscow i really wanna know and i forgot how to google it
Poland is coming back to it's historical glory.
away from the Russian clutches happened exactly that
'The UK rises less quickly'
A very British way to describe stagnation.
Poland deserve to be on the top, I've met many nice polish people are very hardworking and honest . No wonder why their country is thriving economically that quickly.
Good job Poland, we have a lot of respect for Poland. I hope Poland becomes the most influential and economically country in the EU.
I drove through Poland last year and large parts of it now definitely look better off than parts of the UK. Places like South Wales and Stoke look dreadful in comparison.
Newly renovated. Eastern Germany also looks better than the Western part in many places. But there is more to that - Poles are very proud of their country, are more egalitarian and in general the structure of the society is different.
in uk only London looks ok. the rest is aweful
@@uceee1 lol no... go to york, bath, edinburgh or any countryside town...
In Poland we do not talk. We work.
100/100
As a Brit living in Poland I can see it coming too.
Britain being a mere 8% ahead of Poland in terms of GDP per capita is a cause for celebration?
Yes - for Poland. One of the greatest success stories of the last 20 years.
Currently:
Cost of Living in Poland is 34.0% lower than in United Kingdom (without rent)
Cost of Living Including Rent in Poland is 37.4% lower than in United Kingdom
Rent Prices in Poland are 44.7% lower than in United Kingdom
Restaurant Prices in Poland are 44.2% lower than in United Kingdom
Groceries Prices in Poland are 35.4% lower than in United Kingdom
Local Purchasing Power in Poland is 25.5% lower than in United Kingdom
The last item is changing rapidly.
And Britain is more expensive than Poland
Quality of life much higher in Poland
Specially safeness and fresh foods and not to forget healthcare and education
@@scentsoftravelmeditation how bad is UK healthcare? The only reason its not that bad in Poland is the private healthcare is relatively cheap
As a Polish American who knows very little about Poland and Europe, I am disgusted and surprised by the almost rude language towards the Polish nation.
“Almost rude” it’s fully rude and xenophobic. With other immigrants at least fear of coming out as racist is stopping them from acting out their post imperial snobism. When the subject is Polish people they are just openly mocking us.
I love the British mentality... They think they still rule half the world, while Singapore, their former colony has long overtaken them, and more countries will do the same thanks to Brexit.
It's not only Poland. GDP per capita growth rate in Poland looks similar to Romania, Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia etc
Regardless if it will overtake the UK by then or not, Poland's growth has been extremely impressive and it will continue to grow at a strong pace for a while.
That's the question what will happen. So far the work is still cheap in Poland, when this is over then I am really curious whether they will make it to become a rich country.
The UK average salary is the same as in Slovenia. Take London out of the equation, UK salaries are quite low.
NO thats incorrect they are still higher than slovenia withour London
@@ryandanngetich2524 not adjusted for living costs
2 million people is not an economy
@@_______MCK._________Of course it is, every country has an economy regardless of size.
The 3 pillars of the UK economy.
1. The City Of London.
2. Scottish Energy.
3. The Rest.
'The Rest' barely qualifies for first world status!.
This is from a continental Geography school text book.
He's trying hard to prove Poland is much more poorer lol
My uncle lives in the UK for quite a long time now but he is moving back to Poland this year
I came back to Poland 6 years ago after 11 y in UK. I don't thing that Poland can overtake UK however a think that overall standard of living in Poland now can already compete with UK.
I'm Polish, working hard for my country and I really like what I see at the end of this video. Even if it's a bit overestimated, we are getting there. Sooner or later
e x a c t l y.
who cares if it happens in 2030 , 2050 or 2080, I don't care. We are getting there sooner or later anyway, we are on the right track. Given that living in Poland right now is not bad at all already, and it will only get better
Unia(Niemcy) przypierdolą ets2 i sie skończy polaczkowanie
@@gunter4476 hahaha
@@gunter4476 *ets3
some implicit derrogatory comments against Poland in this video...why couldn't it overtake one, several or even all of the G7?
Standard, it's a gene of superiority that led to Brexit.
Note that Poland hasn’t taken in mass numbers of Middle Eastern and African migrants
@@shif06 I meant African*, fixed
@@shif06 the diffrence being, one is culturaly similar, and other is culturaly far diffrent. Ukrainians, believe it or not, mostly are hard working, same with Poles. Illegall immigrants, on other hand, are more unpredictable.
2030, the year when first English plumbers arrived in Poland seeking a brighter future for themselves.
Most scarry is unlike France, Britain has Super poor and Super Rich
That is the core issue. Regional and class divide is huge. The opportunities for the less well off are being closed off so that they cannot escape.
France do too. The richest men in the world last year was a French guy. Under macrone the economic disparity has grown there.
@@Alaryk111UK has a worst Gini index than France. It's more like a disparity between the 1000 billion euros GDP of Paris Ile de France vs the rest of the country (1800 billion €). France is developing the south and the east of the county to balance. UK has the same problem, but no other rich region outside London to compensate. It's a big problem, because Manchester, Birmingham and Liverpool are dwarfed by London and as risked bankrupts in recent years😅😅😅
English exceptionalism (and fatalism). We are talking about a 5-year projection, not a 30-year projection. OECD projections and ECB projections show slightly different figures than that of the IMF, and it is highly likely that Poland will overtake the UK within 5 years. There is another reason why this might happen. The Polish population is younger than the English population, and they will see people from abroad returning.
more capitalism = more shorttermism. In the UK capitalism is extreme, hence the result. Then the UK has been taken over and is run by the US. Basically it is a colony. Just wait for Trump to come back. The country will be sucked to the bone.
And Britain is out of EU...
Also brexit!.
I tu się mylisz. Tusk w przeciwieństwie do PIS realizuje pimolitykę zwijania Polski. Zatrzymano wszystkie duże inwestycje, wprowadzono cenzurę mediów. Na niespotykaną skalę wyprzedaje się za darmo polskie firmy. Polska słabnie przez folksdojczy i zdrajców jak tusk i jego banda złodziei.
in 30 years this country will be run be muslim govrment
For sure Poland can do this obviously even more likely so as Britain keeps sanctioning itself while Poland believes in cooperation in a strong European Union. Greetings from Belgium.
Starmer didn't say anything about it happening by 2030... Poland is still growing faster and will likely overtake the UK in GDP per capita as a result.
I dont think most of us understand just how bad the economy is here, life is better in pretty much every EU country at this point...
there is no economy in the UK really, there is a housing casino that sucks all the money it can do, then there is Bank of England that sucks further dozens of billions ... the crumbs are left to the population to buy bread, butter and milk and pay for dirty water and overpriced electricity and gas. The UK is top class scam!
True. Sad but true.
Poland is second fastest growing economy in the world. First is China. How it's possible ? Education and dilligence.
I've worked with many Polish guys and they've all been sound. The Polish are very strong people and an incredible ally for Britain
Sadly Britain wasn't good ally
@@ReTeVol Why
@@Jorden.Florence First, the Teheran Conference, then the Yalta Conference. We were sold to Stalin and our gov-in-exile (located in the UK) was not even able to celebrate the victory against the Germans during the victory parade.
Poland & Britain shuld keep together :)
This guy is lying to your faces! It's about how well off a Polish household is vs a UK one. And believe me, by 2030 Polish households will be better off than UK ones (on average at least)!
Many already are.
As a polish person i know this perapective of Poland overtaking UKs gdp must be terryfying for brits.
Enjoy that Brexit. Well done!
Yeah the UK shot itself in the foot with Brexit.
Not immigration and diversity though??!?😅
@TG-ts3xn Immigrants seem to work harder than your average brit. Is sad to see so many British people are on drugs or benefits and refuse to work. And these same people are angry that Immigrants are coming to replace them in the job market. The benefit system in this country is encouraging people to be lazy and that is having a huge impact on the economy.
@@user-ug8wx5er1wThat’s right blame the immigrants for everything
Not really, more to do with a completely incompetent Conservative party.
@@vextally7566Totally agree. There's little incentive for certain groups to work. The state seems happy to pick up the bill...
I am particularly interested in how much wealthier (or poorer) certain regions of the UK are compared to specific parts of Poland. The Warsaw or Gdańsk regions are for example much wealthier than the Bradford area.
In the UK, the difference between rich and "poor" is very large, with most of the wealth being generated in London. People living and working outside of London are considerably less wealthy. Many Poles are already considerable more wealthier than many Britons.
Also, an 8 percent difference in GDP is not really a cause for celebration for the UK.
Bro listed the worst city in the uk to compare Warsaw to. Not a flex.
Poland still doesn't really have oligarchs - help them keep it this way!
There are ppl in companies who earn million per month, getting Rich is easy its about knowledge and spirit and market needs.
Cant happen as it's too late for the formation of oligarchs in Poland. Oligarchs are created by sudden privitisation of state assets, benefiting individuals. As seen at the collapse of the USSR, Russian and Ukrainian individuals were basically able to capture entire state assets like oil companies for themselves through corruption. Poland instead didn't privatise at first and basically had the idea of letting new capitalist private companies compete against the public ones, which worked incredibly well and led to not a single oligarch in Poland and a better wealth inequality than in the U.K. for example.
Poland was poorer than Ukraine back in 1991. Look where Poland is now. No Oligarchs helped for sure.
Brexit Brexit Brexit - It turns out project fear was actually project reality
It turns out economists know a lot about economics......
So millions of Poles(decent people) working in the UK then spending in Poland pre Brexit isn't a big part of Polands economic growth?
Poland is also extremely safe and clean because of rejecting 3rd world immigration.
France & Germany the two biggest European economies are struggling was this Brexit?
@@KSzkodaGamesfree movement was fantastic for big business and the oil 🛢 for the gig economy
@@codswallop164 850k not million of Poles are working and living in UK but this figure from EU - Settled Status now is outdated because the Poles are leaving UK in large numbers. The same goes for Romanians - curriers to Romania are fully booked for a month in advance.
Immigration policies of Poland.
Now what?
Come on Poland 🇵🇱 🇬🇧
They achieved this growth in the past 30 years, so they cannot do it for a few more years ?? I think they can
We have worse and worse political class and in previous decades EU helped the growth, now they're trying to strangle us, "starve us economically".
@@MyPrideFlag actually i am half polish and i dont like neither PIS or PO, but PIS so far have many scandals of corruption. So i dont believe they are better than PO 😅 and remain parties are just small useless once
It makes me wonder why Brits are so touched and jealous somehow about polish growth for the past 30 years poland had been the fastest growing economy and every year sustain growth and has been always laughed at by Western Europe makes me wonder…lets face it poland is full of educated and hard working in people and is going to be the richest country in Europe soon,i ve already seen many English people gone to Poland for cheaper life and much safer and some of the highly skilled jobs are already better paid than in Uk .Poland has been under attacks and has been damaged by all those enemies and wars throughout the centuries otherwise Polish economy would be biggest economy in Europe long time ago.
zebys sie nie zesral
Ofc people will be jealous. We want to perform just as well as poland and there is nothing wrong with that.
I don’t think they’re jealous, just worried.
Poland back to where it belonged. A hard working and wealthy nation. (and without Polxit ...).
We should adopt Poland's immigration policy, then watch our economy magically repair itself.
Still shocking to see how fast Poland is growing.
Poland in
1945 : Help me Britain
2045 : On your left 🏃♂️
Of course that’s only a prediction, yet apart from the chart there’s also reality. Why not compare transportation in the both countries? The quality of buildings, medical facilities, education or motorways?
Maybe that would be too shocking for the Great Britain to realise what’s happening in the UK ?
Poland is a great country and hard working people and totally deserve to be on top. They’ve had a pretty awful history.
Poland : Hold my Tyskie Beer
Believe or not, Tyskie is piss. We have hundreds of craft breweries which are far better. Your concept of Polish beer is outdated, mate... so visit Poland and try some real POLISH beer :D
Brexit really has delivered.
Well, looks like Brexit worked right?
Not Brexit
Not just Brexit, although it certainly didn’t help. It is bureaucracy (it’s almost impossible to build something in Britain), austerity and low productivity growth.
@@iwiwt Bureaucracy and austerity are all over Europe and the world do not use these as an excuse for UK under performance...low productivity and brexit are however very much a part of UK economic issues.
@@fitzstv8506they frame anything else but Brexit. They'll never admit fault for the destructive things they pushed for
@@ryandanngetich2524 It is Brexit.
The argument for Brexit is that there are too many immigrants from underdeveloped European countries like Poland😂
Forget the graphs the point is simple. Poland's economy is thriving, ours is not. Ask the questions why and address them. The UK is full of creative talented people that the system is not getting the most out of them and we need a bold plan to grow the economy. Neither Sunak or Starmer are bold enough. Neither have a true vision. they're 'Managers', not leaders.
Poland's economy is thriving because it has access to the EU single market, the UK should try and get access to this market as well....OH!!!
It's ethical and motivational issue. Brits in broader terms are lazy while Poles work hard and give 100% at work.
@@fitzstv8506 OBjectively that is not the only reason as there are EU countries far underperforming Poland
@@Edelweiss-f8c it is far more complex than that
@@mattinterweb Essentially all the smaller and lesser EU countries are in fact thriving economically though Germany, France and Italy are having difficulties of all sorts not least economically.