General suggests Brits could be called up to the army | ITV News

The head of the Army has said Britain should “train and equip” a “citizen army” to ready the country for a potential land war.

But General Sir Patrick Sanders, the outgoing Chief of the General Staff (CGS), said even that would be “not enough” as he pointed to allies in eastern and northern Europe “laying the foundations for national mobilisation”.

In a speech on Wednesday, the military top brass said increasing Army numbers in preparation for a potential conflict would need to be a “whole-of-nation undertaking”.

The comments, first reported by the Daily Telegraph, are being read as a warning that British men and women should be ready for a call-up to the armed forces if Nato goes to war with Russia.

[Jackel]

Best of luck with that, no ones laying down their lives for unelected foreign leaders.

[davidpenney]

We lost our country, nothing to fight for anymore....

[WendyIvers]

Let the royals and aristocrats and politicians and the beaurocrats go and let them send their sons and grandsons. These are their wars, not ours.

[mickcee]

I'm not fighting for these corrupt politicians

[LeeGion_]

I will never risk my life for this country. Not a chance.

[PeoplesGaming]

I served in Afghanistan. I won't fight for men in suits who've never tasted war. Who's war are we fighting?

[beebeelicious]

I would rather hide my children than allow them to be enlisted.

[zakk]

Put the politicians on the front line, who would have most likely got us into the mess with the way the world is going. Greed!

[Maelstromaku]

Even corrupt UK government know brits would tell them to get fked of they tried to do this 😂

[immanuelmakesmusic]

I can't even get to see a doctor. Yet 2.6 billion goes to Ukraine.

[roninhood]

Import army of fighting age men, send our own fighting age men to meat grinder…🤔 What could go wrong?

[RELEONSK]

A major difference between now and the last conscription is that then people actually liked the country and wanted to defend it, now nobody/very few would fight and die for England because its abandoned the majority, they cant put everyone in prison if millions decided to reject some form of conscription so good luck with that if it ever happened.

[what-oyil]

Fight for who? No one is patriotic anymore and it's your fault. So either pay 200k a year or forget it.

[delduvall]

“You depend on our protection
Yet you feed us lies from the tablecloth”

[alicef]

If Brit’s have to go, will your immigrants have to go too?

[jamiefry]

How about the goverments have a fight instead

[garnhamr]

It's a bit toxic masculinity isn't it? Fighting and all that

[Kuiruben]

I would rather rot in a cell than fight for this govt

[SupaMusicUK]

We've already been divided, by race, sex and nationality. The majority are here to feed from our land, not to defend it.

[natsohigh]

So, for over a year, the narrative has been that Russia is struggling against Ukraine.

Yet NATO needs the worlds civilian population to fight them?

Both cant be true 😂