Ciaran’s Peculier [sic] Blog

Poland is wracked by controversy after president Lech Kaczynski announced that he was not inviting his predecessor Lech Walesa to an Independence Day ball at the president’s residence, the Belevedere Palace in Warsaw.
For many people Lech Walesa was one of the people who brought communism to its knees, all the more ironic that he was just an ordinary worker who stood up to and pulled to shreds a hypocricical monstrostiy which claimed to be a workers’ state.

The reasons for the snub are clear and nor-so-clear at the same time. They obviously stem from personal animosities between the two men. President Kaczynski is weird to put it mildly; he has an obsession with homosexuals, giving rise to the widespread belief that such an obsession stems from fears about his own heterosexuality. He reminds me a bit of the late Irish politician Jim Tunny, whose views on homosexuality were regularly lampooned on RTE radio’s Scrap Saturday, one of the station’s most popular shows until the knights pulled its plug. People may recall how Jim Tunny was presented as saying; “I love Char-less J. Haughey. It is because he is not a homo-sexual”, or on another occasion, when he was prevented by injury from attending a parliamentary party meeting, he was presented as saying: “I couldn’t get to de meetin’ because I discovered a homosexual at de bottom o’ me gardin’.

All I can say to Lech is: take it for the team and remember you’re bigger than kaczynski. Try and picture him sitting on the toilet with his trousers down. I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve been snubbed here, and it helps me. Maybe kaczynwski didn’t invite Lech because he had heard there had been trouble between him and the Belweder palace – but it was before his time. Then again maybe he didn’t invite him because he was afraid of embarrassing him! Yeah or maybe the president sent you an invitation by email that you were just too stupid to read and that you deleted by accident.