Granny Danger Posted May 26 Share Posted May 26 2 minutes ago, doulikefish said: "Hello Rishi it's Michelle from Mones military emporium " Joking aside, if some sort of National Service was introduced it would definitely be done in a way where Tory donors could make money from it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eindhovendee Posted May 26 Share Posted May 26 1 minute ago, Granny Danger said: Joking aside, if any sort of policy was introduced it would definitely be done in a way where Tory donors could make money from it. Ftfy. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suspect Device Posted May 26 Share Posted May 26 Compulsory national service is not that popular. A voluntary scheme might be. And unsurprisingly, it's old duffers who are most in favour and youngsters who are most against. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vikingTON Posted May 26 Share Posted May 26 14 hours ago, Granny Danger said: National Service. There’s nothing like a well considered and thought out policy. And this is nothing like a well considered and thought out policy. Neither was Brexit and yet you still voted for that. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deanburn Dave Posted May 26 Share Posted May 26 5 hours ago, BFTD said: ,..........when their nursing home is staffed by teenage "volunteers"..... "Jay of the Inbetweeners" types are looking forward to this . 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted May 26 Share Posted May 26 3 hours ago, Leith Green said: Wonder whats next. Prisoners in chains fixing the roads or the death sentence? Capital punishment tends to be divisive, but I bet there'd be massive support for using prison slave labour to fill potholes. 1 hour ago, Suspect Device said: Compulsory national service is not that popular. A voluntary scheme might be. And unsurprisingly, it's old duffers who are most in favour and youngsters who are most against. Isn't "voluntary national service" just joining the army? 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soapy FFC Posted May 26 Share Posted May 26 Maybe this is one of the many reasons Sunak decided to call the election now https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/may/26/why-travelling-on-eurostar-from-the-uk-is-about-to-become-much-trickier Better to get it out of the way before a potential sh*t show at the border. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JS_FFC Posted May 26 Share Posted May 26 You’ve got two candidates here. The honourable gentleman from Holborn (as some call him) is showing he cares about the future generations by allowing them to take part in the democratic process shaping the future, and then you’ve got the prime minister wanting to enrol them in some kind of boot camp. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Binos Posted May 26 Share Posted May 26 45 minutes ago, BFTD said: Capital punishment tends to be divisive, but I bet there'd be massive support for using prison slave labour to fill potholes. Isn't "voluntary national service" just joining the army? And national service Human beings crave structure, for many in our shagged society it would give them some 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fullerene Posted May 26 Share Posted May 26 6 hours ago, doulikefish said: Up next the death penalty I think public flogging might also be appealing. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Florentine_Pogen Posted May 26 Share Posted May 26 https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/26/jimmy-dimly-shows-us-how-to-serve-by-fronting-up-latest-tory-gimmick "Jimmy D was wheeled out for Trevor Phillips on Sky and Laura Kuenssberg on the BBC. Both interviews started with questions on the Tories’ latest gimmick: a return to national service. Truly the idiocracy has excelled itself this time. You can sense the desperation in Tory HQ. SOS! We need a policy to attract Reform voters. Something that will remind the over-80s of VE Day. But save bring back hanging for when the polls get even worse. For reasons best known to themselves, Trevor and Laura insisted on taking national service seriously. Rather than a badly thought through gimmick that would never see the light of day. Private Jimmy Dimly stood to attention. This was the nation’s chance to serve. To make good the divisions the Tories had created in society over the past 14 years with some mandatory volunteering. Rather sweetly, he was totally oblivious to the contradiction." 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granny Danger Posted May 26 Share Posted May 26 2 hours ago, Fullerene said: I think public flogging might also be appealing. They’ve already privatised everything, there’s nothing left to flog! Oh, that sort of flogging… 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carpetmonster Posted May 26 Share Posted May 26 14 minutes ago, Granny Danger said: They’ve already privatised everything, there’s nothing left to flog! Oh, that sort of flogging… Don’t discount the possibility of ‘you have been sentenced to 20 lashes, but you can reduce that to 12 by having BARCLAYS BANK painted across your arse while we’re thrashing it’ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granny Danger Posted May 26 Share Posted May 26 8 minutes ago, carpetmonster said: Don’t discount the possibility of ‘you have been sentenced to 20 lashes, but you can reduce that to 12 by having BARCLAYS BANK painted across your arse while we’re thrashing it’ For a few Tories that scenario would be a win-win. Allegedly. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carpetmonster Posted May 26 Share Posted May 26 14 minutes ago, Granny Danger said: For a few Tories that scenario would be a win-win. Allegedly. I’d imagine quite a few of them would be enthusiastically having a Barclay’s Bank 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SandyCromarty Posted May 26 Share Posted May 26 National Service? an electioneering joke put forward to satisfy the retired little englanders who spend their days writing to their local rag complaining of the feckless rude youth nowadays. I checked aroung the internet at the original system circa 1950's and found it was riddled with scams of their day to get exemptions, farmer, bakers and those in medicine were exempt so there was an uptake of those positions, the Merchant Navy was another refuge then there were doctors who for the right money could declare you unfit or mentally ill. It wasn't a publicly acceptable system and if you were apprenticed you had to interrupt it and do two years in teh military and then return to complete your apprenticeship. I've met young men around the world who were conscripted in France, Scandinavian countries etc and none of them had a god word for it, conscripts in Iran don't get paid for their national service. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caledonian1 Posted May 26 Share Posted May 26 Unbelievable the lengths Tories will go to defend a ridiculous policy that they know will never become law. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cv2283580dyo 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granny Danger Posted May 26 Share Posted May 26 3 minutes ago, Caledonian1 said: Unbelievable the lengths Tories will go to defend a ridiculous policy that they know will never become law. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cv2283580dyo The Tories could propose the most obnoxious policy possible and Wee Dougie would be rolled out with that ‘look-at-me-I’m-a-serious-guy’ look on his face and try to justify it. Could his parents not practiced birth control? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GNU_Linux Posted May 26 Share Posted May 26 Woke warriors on national service colourised 2026 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Connolly Posted May 26 Share Posted May 26 We're always told that the Royal Family's job is national service, so presumably these new roles for 18 year olds would pay the same 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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