‘Teenage Dad’s Army’: Starmer dismisses PM’s national service policy
a clear Direction not the endless spinning around that successive Tory governments have subjected us all to the prime minister with a new plan every week a new strategy every month at this rate a new election campaign every day I’m not joking all this spinning round and round it’s symbolic of the chaos and the instability you’ve seen that again over the past few days that the desperation of this national service policy that’s s teenage Dad’s Army paid for paper I kid you not by canceling leveling up funding and money from tax avoidance that we would use to invest in our NHS now all elections are a choice and this is a clear one leveling up on the NHS with labor or more desperate chaos with the for is that is the choice [Applause]
The Labour leader has called Rishi Sunak’s policy to introduce a form of mandatory national service requiring 18-year-olds to either join the military for 12 months or undertake weekend volunteer work ‘desperate’, adding that it would create a ‘teenage Dad’s Army’.
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Delivering a keynote speech in West Sussex while campaigning for the general election, Starmer said: ‘All this spinning round and round … it’s symbolic of the chaos and the instability’.
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32 comments
Sunak and Starmer to be arrested and taken to the ICC
The choice is to force Ukraine to the negotiating table, because any Government faced with what’s coming, is in for a troubled road.
The unelectable bewildered Labour Party have spoken, no i will never vot Labour Party.
I wonder how doing National Service in the army will go down with Republicans in Northern Ireland….
You know the situation is clear when the campaign slogan is simply 'change'. Stating the obvious with no need for any substance, positive or negative. Basically, it's saying "not those guys".
But himself wants children to vote
SIR KEIR IS A LEGEND!
Yes, Prime Minister! 😅
Just read books for you and yourself
Vote for Labour please. The only people making sense 😮
Conservatives are terrible, Labour is terrible, I don't want to waste my vote. I don't know who to vote for.
5 days @ school PLUS
2 days in boot camp EQUALS
Mental Health Apocalypse 😱
They’re trying to ban adults smoking and want kids on the battlefield. PRIORITIES.
I really dont like our prime minister but im not against national service , the youth of today need a hard lesson
American living in the UK here: don't let the tories win and make the UK more like the hellhole I left
Sunak plan in june: " force all disabled people to work for free for 16 hours a week or more or else jail time"
Socialists never fight for their country
Just you wait as soon as he is voted in he will backtrack maybe a few weeks or a few months but it will happen
America, the UK and Germany MUST make a choice – INTERNATIONAL LAW or PROFITS from WAR !
Yaasiin.maxamed.jaamac.cilmi
What 🤣 labor honestly people do More of the same old stuff . I think its a brilliant idea what it brings to mindset and skill set of younger generation
All Labour have to do is go hard against this national service policy and they will win a bucket load of new voters they wouldn't have got before.
What is the Labour Party going to do about the Russians ?
Kier and Labour will RUIN our country.
Send Kier to the front. The front line.
What, that silly Grand Design?
remember these actors are selected not elected
Liar. Flip flopping around. He will destroy UK.
They done this so people vote for labour its so obvious two wings of the same bird
Reminder that murikkka mocked Trump's wall and now Biden is expanding Trump's wall.
National service won't happen. Young people will refuse to participate
Taxes or national service