Rishi Sunak pledges to bring back national service

Sweden, Norway and Denmark have all recently reintroduced some form of National Service, and France is too.

Now, months after the head of the army said Britain should train up a "citizen army" ready to fight a war, Rishi Sunak is proposing 12 months of mandatory national service.

Labour has criticised the pledge as "desperate" and "only needed because the Tories hollowed out the armed forces".
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[olrdplt]

The Tories have taken away your futures and your freedom of movement now they want your weekends too.

[sdikrtd]

He must want the young to get out and vote against them.

[seabreezedesigns.]

Mandatory volunteering is not volunteering

[iraceruk]

What I think is that these people who are saying it's a 'good thing' will very quickly change their minds when their own children are sent to the front line!

[JBroMCMXCI]

He’s doing everything he can to ensure the Tories lose the election. What a hero 🫡

[allip]

Tories going full fash with this national service nonsense. Unpaid compulsory labour isn’t volunteering, it’s slavery. Zero seats.

[martineyles]

Volunteering is voluntary. National service is not.

[klee]

They should send all Tories over 40 years old to Ukraine.

[jonsteele]

Does Sunak thinks his daughter will do national service in California. What BS on so many levels

[stevebailey]

How is it that unpaid work is a punishment for people found guilty of crimes but it's meant to some kind of opportunity for 18 year olds?

[TimoDyer]

The military don't want it and kids need weekend jobs, not volunteer work where the tories crashed public services.

[samgrainger]

If we don't give them 0 seats then we are the idiots.

[ponypong]

An unelected failure seeks the impossible. Bye-bye to all the Conservative and Unionist National Treasures.

[scrp]

He’s just lost every potential voter who is turning 18 in the next 5 years and potentially some parents

[muhammedrahman]

No Jobs, No Homes, No Food, No Future, No Hope but Plenty of War!

[nlbm]

He’s now trolling us. Clearly doesn’t want to win. Bonkers pledge.

[hourbee]

I have never seen a political party TRY so hard to lose an election.

[shab]

You cannot force people to volunteer. It ceases to be voluntary and becomes slave labour. The desperation is palpable from this failing government.

[brandycat]

Or National Unpaid service. "Investing in young people£ " code for exploiting young people.

[cocotheclown]

Why doesn't he volunteer to live on universal credit for a year