They could have dragged immigration into this ad which would make some sense (to their voters) but somehow decided to accuse Germany of dictating retirement age in Poland.

To give you an idea if there’s anyone who could treat this seriously I’ll bring up my recent experience. I was visiting my girlfriends family in a very rural, very eastern part of Poland couple of weeks ago. Her aunt had to steer conversation into politics somehow.

She decided to do that by telling us that her son, who’s been living in Germany for the past 15 years, told her that he and other polish immigrants in Germany all agree that Donald Tusk is a volksdeutsch. The irony was entirely lost on her. These people will eat this up and ask for seconds.

After it came to power in 2015, Law and Justice lowered the age to 60 for women and 65 for men, but at the same time encouraged people to work longer to be eligible for higher pensions.

So … if the pensions that people are entitled to increase even past the point of official retirement age, what’s the point of defining a retirement age at all?