floofloof@lemmy.ca to United Kingdom@feddit.ukEnglish · 7 months agoConservatives plan to bring back mandatory National Servicewww.bbc.comexternal-linkmessage-square51fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10cross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkConservatives plan to bring back mandatory National Servicewww.bbc.comfloofloof@lemmy.ca to United Kingdom@feddit.ukEnglish · 7 months agomessage-square51fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-squarejlow (he/him)@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·7 months agoThis is probably aimed at people who are to old (and rich) to do military service anyway and with an ever aging population it might work? 🥵
minus-squareladel@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·7 months agoOld people often have grandkids, though. Sure, there will be some that will think that it will do them good, but surely some others will not like the idea of their grandkids having to give up a year of their life.
minus-squareFlax@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·7 months agoI don’t think it’s wasting a year of life- you’ll learn important skills surely
minus-squareladel@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-27 months agoOkay, yeah, if it’s a voluntary scheme, it’s completely different. But the BBC are saying mandatory.
minus-squareFlax@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·7 months agoThey said on Radio 4 this morning that it wasn’t ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ unless I misunderstood
minus-squareHumanPenguin@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·7 months agoThe sceme is mandatory. Military service is an option. But you must spend 25 days doing one of the options. Of course the options are NHS Policing or mental health. All things tories have screwed. So using teens as slave labour to look like they are fixing their own screw ups. Would be a fair description.
minus-squareFlax@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·7 months agoConsidering the voting age is 18, vast majority of voters won’t have to do it. Probably none of them considering it’s a 2025 thing
This is probably aimed at people who are to old (and rich) to do military service anyway and with an ever aging population it might work? 🥵
Old people often have grandkids, though. Sure, there will be some that will think that it will do them good, but surely some others will not like the idea of their grandkids having to give up a year of their life.
I don’t think it’s wasting a year of life- you’ll learn important skills surely
Okay, yeah, if it’s a voluntary scheme, it’s completely different. But the BBC are saying mandatory.
They said on Radio 4 this morning that it wasn’t ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ unless I misunderstood
The sceme is mandatory. Military service is an option. But you must spend 25 days doing one of the options.
Of course the options are NHS Policing or mental health. All things tories have screwed.
So using teens as slave labour to look like they are fixing their own screw ups. Would be a fair description.
Considering the voting age is 18, vast majority of voters won’t have to do it. Probably none of them considering it’s a 2025 thing