Rishi Sunak: I will bring back National Service

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/05/25/rishi-sunak-bring-back-national-service-policy/

by TheTelegraph

27 comments

  1. There’s a certain section of British society – mostly of retirement age – who revel in making other, younger people uncomfortable.

    They will love this.

    If he commits to banning working from home, they’ll be falling over themselves to vote for him.

  2. This is truly desperate nonsense designed to appeal purely to grumpy boomer voters they might have lost over the past couple of years.

  3. Love that image: ‘Get the black guy, tell him to stand in the middle of the shot, we need it for our DEI score!’

  4. So the government can divide the country through mass immigration, but outside forces can’t?

    Rishi is close to becoming a billionaire and doesn’t know how to load a SA80, yet he would send kids to war…

  5. That’s one way to cause a mass young voter turnout to vote against you

  6. My kids will not be doing national service for a country that throw its war hero’s to the dogs…

  7. That’ll do it Rishi, that’ll get them voting for you.

    Good fucking grief, these Tories need taking round the back and putting out their misery

  8. Tens of thousands of young people are withdrawing their applications to serve in the military after waiting for months because Serco, Capita or whatever private contractor can’t process them in time.

    70% of people that apply for the army pull out after applying because of the long wait.

    Now imagine them having to process hundreds of thousands every year. By the time people initially get their conscription papers and processed, they’ll have aged past the national service eligibility.

    Still, it’s an opportunity for a Tory to get a juicy billion pound contract though.

  9. Anyone else get the feeling that he’s doing this on prupose because he doesn’t want to win or am I giving him too much credit?

  10. The people should bring back stringing politicians up should National service come into play by ANY political party.

  11. What an idiot.

    Mid 30’s life long conservative voter think this tips it for me towards labour who I dislike. Fuck sending my kids into the armed forces. Idiot.

  12. No better way of ensuring national pride than forcing people to do stuff. 

  13. Im v left and not against national service. Im against military service. A year of getting a qualification/doing care work/reforesting/building flood defences isnt a bad idea. Like a built in semi adult gap year. Forcing people of to go and kill other people they have not met is a terrible idea

  15. Recently had an odd situation regarding national service. I was fixing a few things in my car and suddenly heard someone shout OI! At me. I looked round and the guy said nice hair (my hair is currently a purple top knot). I then said OK. He then says “you know what you need don’t you!”. I replied “what?”. He shouts back ‘national service” and walks off. I didn’t even say anything back as I was so utterly bemused. I’ve thought about that everyday since. Plus I’m 37 so way too old for national service anyway. I’ve tried to work out what this means. If anyone can, please enlighten me.

  16. Sir Humphrey Appleby:
    Do you think there’s a danger in giving young people guns and teaching them how to kill?

    Bernard Woolley:
    Yes.

    Sir Humphrey Appleby:
    Do you think it’s wrong to force people to take arms against their will?

    Bernard Woolley:
    Yes.

    Sir Humphrey Appleby:
    Would you oppose the reintroduction of conscription?

    Bernard Woolley:
    Yes.

  17. Can’t believe the Tories big plan for saving the country is literal enslavement of young people lmao

  18. The BBC news mentioned 30,000 ‘one year placements’ in the armed services.
    There are about a million 18 year olds every year, so that’s 3% taken care of.

    The other 97%, forced to give up one weekend per month on some ‘scheme’?
    So, what happens when an 18 year old say ‘Nah, fuck that’?
    Even if that’s only 10% of them, will they double the prison places for them?

    Complete barking madness from a party doomed to oblivion.

  19. I was talking to a friend who’s old enough to have done national service. He said he hated just about every minute of it, and some guys would just walk off base so they would be arrested spend a few weeks in prison rather than in the army.

  20. Hilarious. I cannot imagine how wildly out of touch with reality these people are.

    Just mental illness at this point. Totally fucked come July 4th.

  21. Absolutely baffling. If young people weren’t already thinking of voting, then this will mobilise them in larger numbers than ever before to kick out the Tories.

  22. I think bringing back corporal punishment would get more votes than national service! 💯

  23. Something like this might actually raise the turnout levels to 90%+

  24. Ah yes that’ll beat the trans right out of the kids.

    Or alternatively get the vote of coffin dodgers.

  25. Labour wants to give young people the vote.

    The Tories want them as cannon fodder or unpaid workers.

    It’s a pretty stark contrast there.

  26. Whilst the situation in Ukraine and the Russian threat going into the future makes this a possible necessity, I don’t think this would be a vote winning strategy.

  27. Why doesent Sunak go full twat and say anybody between the age of 18 and 40 would have to national service. It would shut up the thicko bunch of Reform voters.

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