The best thing by far on Polish TV right now – better even than the not-bad-for-Poland Szymon Majewski Show – is PiS’s childishly crude and hilariously inept party political broadcast. The theme is corruption, of course, the only tune PiS knows, and it contrasts two Polands – that of “not long ago” and the Poland of today. In the first half we see a bunch of fat cats (villas, swanky cars, improbably fat and smoky cigars) exchanging briefcases full of cash for contracts: one of them says to the other “now all we have to do is bribe the opposition.” In the second we see panic, fear and the same fat cats swearing (it’s bleeped) into their mobile phones “[minister for justice] Ziobro’s not on the take!”
Have you spotted the flaw? Who the hell bribes the opposition? It’s the ruling party that counts. Also, who were the opposition in the Poland of “not long ago” portrayed in the ad? Why, the Kaczyńskites, that’s who.