Teens could lose bank accounts and driving licences for snubbing national service, Rishi Sunak says

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1. Ironic, they want to look at how European countries do things to encourage National Service… I thought we didn’t like how Europe did things?

2. Who cares? The Tories may even end up not being His Majesty’s Loyal Opposition? They may as well promise unicorns and candy for all at this point.

3. I’m beginning to think Rishi has bet on the Tories losing the election.

   I’m just grateful to him we have a relatively short election campaign period, and we can all be put out of our misery of listening to constant bollox soon.

4. Is the goal here to have the lowest election total in modern history?

5. This is *the* central policy of his campaign, yet he has no idea as to how it would actually work.

   He’s just making it up as he goes along.

6. If you want to see how red meat works… ask them about this policy. It’s so devoid of any detail.

   Depending on who you speak to, it could be any answer. It’s twelve months but maybe just weekends except when it isn’t, but can be in the community and if you don’t do it, you lose your driving license and bank account. You might have to stay in accommodation except when you don’t.

   At least when Johnson pulled red meat out of thin air, it sort of made sense. Oven ready deal, 40 new hospitals, levelling up…

7. He has no idea how he’d do this, and hasn’t bothered to figure it out, and it really doesn’t matter, because it’s a moot point. He’s not getting elected.

8. Just when you think he’s reached rock bottom… He starts to dig.

9. I don’t have much of an opinion on national service. I’m a reservist myself and enjoy the armed forces. My main thought though is why can’t we use more carrot then stick? Offer free tuition? Have them train as reservists whilst receiving a free degree in return for a number of years regular or reserve commitment post graduation?

10. Fun fact when I was a teen sold weed and didn’t have a bank account…I even had a Saturday job but I was paid cash for some strange reason….also a driving license??? Mf can’t even get a home…

11. Would rather lose my licence than my life shove your national service up ya posh toffy arse

12. I don’t get how this policy would win over any voters and which base it appeals to cause let’s face it, they only trying to make sure that they win as much seats as possible and not finish 3rd behind LibDems.

    Besides what if they don’t have bank accounts and driving licence or if they lose their bank account what happens to their money?

13. To be fair, he didn’t mention bank accounts. Fiona Bruce did. By “access to finance” I assume he meant loans etc. There are so many legitimate bases upon which to criticise the Tories, without us having to invent things.

14. He’s like the Gareth Southgate of politics. Not a scooby

15. Oh no, I’m sure Teenagers will be devastated to lose their bank account with fuck all in it, and their car that they can’t afford the fucking petrol for. Why don’t you cut their caviar ration too you gormless fuckhole?

16. I’m 37 so this policy wouldn’t personally affect me, and my kids are young enough that they never would need to worry about this shit either.

    But man, the way they’re promoting this is so weird. He says it’s optional, and Fiona Bruce challenges him to say how it’s optional but also compulsory, and he says people won’t be able to get “finances” if they don’t do it. Like what the fucking hell is this mad policy? So you’re 18, you’ve been in school and they’re going to shit on your life plans because you won’t do free work for them? It’s a good job a lettuce has a better chance for forming the next government than they do because these policies aren’t even half baked.

17. Don’t worry… it’s completely voluntary.

    Oh, but you will lose access to banking, Lose your drivers license, Get a criminal conviction for yourself and your parents and be blocked from certain jobs if you don’t do this.

    But yeah, it’s totally voluntary

18. Scary that the current government is starting to threaten people’s bank accounts. I bet this will escalate to more in future with future government for lesser things.

19. Removing basic services you *need* to be able to do anything if you don’t sign up, isn’t this just slavery or something? What’s next? Making everyone get a license to buy food and then taking it away when they don’t comply with future demands?

20. Rishi is clearly so done with dealing with the shitstorm he has created he just wants out. And is saying anything that will get him out

21. Why not just pay off their college debt if they do the National service..?

22. Last year Sunak made out debanking was a terrible thing. Now he wants to use it as a punishment

23. But Rishi, nobody listens to you. You’re about as important as flotation device in outerspace.

24. Maybe two years of putting their lives on hold to protect pensioners from gasping to death should count as service to their nation.
    These predominantly tory voters have very short memories.

25. What we should be betting on is how quickly he pisses off to Canada when he loses. I reckon he’ll have left the country before the results are even in.

26. “Do it or else!”

    If they doesn’t inspire patriotism…I don’t know what will… perhaps prison

27. The funny thing is that this guy become PM without getting voted in the fist place. What are the chance he is going to win with voting lol

28. I bet the people who support this policy go on the internet and say they are libertarians.

29. He seems to have hung his entire existence on this one policy, but even my Daily ^hate Mail reading mum thinks it’s stupid. My Daily Torygraph reading aunty has been ranting and raving about nation service since I can remember though, even though she would have never been called up.

30. There’s obviously a lot wrong with this but, as a cleaner, I’ve started to feel a bit disrespected that people are using my job as an example of a punishment.

31. So for refusing to do unpayed labour, 18 year olds will be dennied access to a bank account? For how long? What if they live on their own without parental support or even have to care for someone? How would this effect their ability to get payed and to pay rent or buy food? It would be very difficult to live in the modern world without a bank account. What happens to existing accounts, is the money seized? How would this effect going to uni, if unable to pay tuition fees they would be dennied access to further education and in many cases a decent future. The more i think about ut the wose it gets. This is both not thought through and incredibly inhumane, which really sums up the last 14 years of government.

32. The main, most important purpose of the government is to protect us from those who would do us harm.

    This is even more paramount in a country where said government has disarmed the population so we’re unable to defend ourself – you can’t disarm us then leave us out to the wolves.

    So to break it down, if you decide to do something so reckless like, I don’t know, check your phone on the pavement in London you’re instantly liable to having it ripped from your hand. Same with if you’ve got a nice watch.

    In the most surveiled city in the fucking world outside China – they can do nothing about this.

    But if an 18 year old, a grown adult, refuses to perform free labour (objectively slavery) you’re going to strip them of their rights.

    This is a government of stripping rights from normal, law abiding citizens – and protecting the real thugs who would do us harm.

    Wanna smoke a fag? Nope. Use a vpn? Nope. Use end to end encryption? Nope. Protest? Nope.

    It’s a nanny state on steroids, but without any of the benefits a nanny state is supposed to bring like near zero crime rates a la Singapore/

33. Not Teens — Adults. They would force financial institutions to close bank accounts and restrict movement of Adults.

    Clearly a party of small government that keeps it’s nose out of your personal freedoms.

34. Occasionally, i think that the tories actually do this kind of thing deliberately.

    David Cameron’s ineptitude over the Brexit referendum, Liz Truss screwing the economy to poison the well for Labour, Rishi Sunak’s sabotaging his own campaign so badly that a significant portion of his remaining supporters are defecting to Reform.

    I could just be wrong and they are all Russian agents.

35. Imagine threatening young people with that if they don’t sign up for the meat grinder, fuck off you out of touch with the world robotic toff cunt.

    Conscription and national have no place outside of the nazi threat 2.0, we’ve had a volunteer career army for the last nearly hundred years for a reason, also everyone knows the low numbers are directly due to them forcing the armed forces to be “diverse” and literally not letting absolutely tonnes of white British people sign up voluntarily..in a majority white British country.

    Get in the bin the lot of you.

36. Sunak remakes the phrase shoot yourself in the foot, because he takes a M61 Vulcan minigun, hooks it up to a Humvee full of ammo and fires until his foot is gone, the floor is gone, and lava erupts from the DEEP MOTHER FUCKING HOLE he is placing his party.

37. Hold on…. let me get this clear?

    The Tories want to take a large group of young people, already inclined to dislike them, and give them a reason to hate them AND training in firearms and tactics?

    They do remember they are known public figures with known addresses, right? The combination of the two is… not good.

    This has to be the most hairbrained idea I’ve head of….

38. Send Sunak to the front line and then we’ll discuss it.

39. Take away bank accounts? How fo they get paid while working then? Clown, do national service or we’ll make you poor!!