What's the fundamental role of the political opposition? A good answer would be: ask the opposition! But this question fails to receive any reliable answer, as PiS (Law and Justice - currently the opposition in Polish government) keeps walking the thin line of ridiculing the legitimate government (PO - Civic Platform + PSL - Polish People's Party). The policy of mocking the opponents and stirring-up public opinion began some considerable time ago - we might as well place it in 2007, when the new government was formed. 

PiS has found itself in times of utmost hardships. Social support for its activities has been regularly decreasing, and as time passes, there is no sign of them trying to get along with the governing party.  And now, they shoot off a new site called POrażkaroku.pl (The FAilure of the year, PO being governing party's initials) to show off how far the political elites are from reaching any reasonable compromise.

The site is sometimes quite funny, but for the most part - it's pathetic. Its contents have been selected in such a manner, there is no doubt about the purpose of the site. Destroy the government. Bet on us (again) in the next elections. Wait... Something's wrong. Isn't the opposition there to support the government (or alternatively prevent its mistakes) for the common purpose? We are but all waiting for reconciliation, but... we're not any closer to seeing it. Again. 

No one now has any doubts about the financial crisis that stroke the whole world starting somewhere on the New Continent. Poland's not been excluded from this turmoil and since about three-four weeks it has been terrifying, to say the least, to watch the stock market prices dive into red for more than three consecutive days. Investing in funds I got a terrible headache myself. Of course I have withdrawn my shares from the stock market and put them into more stable and less-threatening monetary instruments, but that does not mean the crisis did not get to me. Yesterday, WIG 20, the main stock index listing twenty major  stock companies in Poland soared high. +7.7 was the largest change since the beginning of the market downfall some year ago. Polish currency sprung up while USD, EUR and CHF plunged down. Not to mention my mortgage in swiss francs has just got much cheaper after reaching almost 200% in the worst days of the recent crisis strike. Strange things are happening in this world.