Liz Kendall says young people will be pushed to join the army to cut youth unemployment

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1. Theres the other shoe. Not a drive to help people with disabilities get jobs, not under 22s miraculously being immune to disease and disability, just a conscription by stealth.

2. Ridiculous once again. Young people aren’t getting hired in this Job Market. We shouldn’t have to fight for a country that doesn’t help us.

3. Kicked off benefits and sent to Ukraine.

   How many people are on benefits here that have been very vocal about getting more involved in Ukraine? 🤔

4. I guess cutting mass migration to reduce competition in the job market is not an option then.

5. I swear there’s a Yes Minister episode with this exact plotline.

6. So you want young people to fight for a country that wont protect them if they become disabled. How fucked up can this government get !

7. And when they sit in a capita Queue for 2 years what will happen? T

8. “Instead of *treating* the sick, perhaps we should be *eating* the sick? That would free up some beds, eh?”

9. No, I’d not want that to be pushed on the youth – I would however be in favour of MP’s who are quick to suggest this to be first in line.

10. There are some people who would genuinely benifit from the security and training the armed forces bring. But its not a career for everyone and forcing everyone down that route will be a disaster not just for them but for the Armed forces too.
    Whoever is advising Labour is so blinkered by appeasing Express and Telegraph readers they have totally lost the plot.

11. Conscription by poverty. Strip and make it impossible for the poor young to claim benefits, keep minimum wage low so the young can’t afford to live, make education prohibitively expensive for the poor and offer them an “opportunity” to be cannon fodder for a pittance. Off you go for a horrific pointless death at the front to protect the rich peasant ….

12. I’d like to read this story by a source that isn’t the Daily Express.

13. Remember when labour said “national service” was a stupid idea and they wouldn’t do it…….

14. Seems perfectly reasonable for some people at least. Better to be encouraged to join something worthwhile than left to sit on your arse

    Must be voluntary though.

15. Laughable given the state of recruitment for the forces. Even they are not hiring

16. Are Labour trying to lose the youth vote or something? It’s like every day I grow more glad I never voted for them.

17. Remember when left-wing parties and politicians pushed for large-scale infrastructure projects (which need workers) and expanding social services (which, again, need workers) instead of pushing people disillusioned with their future to join the army (which I’m sure will do wonders for the soldier morale)?

    It’s okay if you don’t, it was a long, long time ago.

18. If you want to push the problematic youth into the army to dismantle youth gangs and anti-social behaviour then sure, the majority of the country would probably support that.

    Sending kids into army jobs they don’t want who want to work and have careers but can’t because there’s no jobs and the entry level jobs available are all demanding X amount of years experience they can’t get however is diabolical.

19. Does the Army actually want them though? It’s meant to be a small, highly professional force.

20. Don’t have a job? Go kill some Russian teenagers! Beautiful world we have!

21. Governments across Europe will do anything to get but raise pay and conditions to get more soldiers.

22. I am sure this will give Labour a massive boost in the polls. Every young person who is struggling to find a job and afford a basic standard of living is no doubt delighted by this.

23. And if these young people had their legs blown off while fighting they would be too young to claim for disability.

24. I would have joined the army earlier on but I was flat out told no due to my autism and disability.

25. 1. Make people know they are unwanted by:
    1. Withdrawing investment in their education and making them pay to go to university and front-load their lives with debt
    2. Make people compete with millions and millions and millions of people from abroad for jobs and housing, which combined with the student debt make it impossible to build any wealth and therefore any personal security for their futures
    3. Actively demonise their identity and history, and drive people apart as much as possible by constantly championing people’s differences as opposed to people’s similarities
    4. Prioritising people who were not born here for support and housing to the point half of the social housing in the capital city is now occupied by people not born in the country, while leaving the pre-existing population to struggle
    5. Create discriminatory sentencing guidelines that give preferential treatment to people not born in the UK, so that some people are punished more harshly for crimes than others on the basis of their identity rather than their crime.
    2. Despise those unwanted people so much, that you’ll do everything you can to create the conditions that stop them from reproducing, and send them off to war to die for a country that hates them, so that we can bring about the new utopia.

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