UK’s Sunak promises mandatory national service for 18-year-olds if elected [26 May 2024 | Al Jazeera]
UK’s Sunak promises mandatory national service for 18-year-olds if elected [26 May 2024 | Al Jazeera]
Ruling Conservative Party says it will bring back national service if it wins the July 4 general election.
Ruling Conservative Party says it will bring back national service if it wins the July 4 general election.
Eighteen-year-olds will have to perform a mandatory national service if the Conservative Party is voted back to power in the United Kingdom’s July 4 election, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has announced.
The prime minister’s plan would entail young people being given a choice between a full-time placement in the armed forces for 12 months or spending one weekend a month for a year volunteering in their community, the party said.
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14 years of dismantling the UK state and economy, and now this is the best they can come up with?
hm forced labor sounds quite socialist to me. mr conservative, why don’t you let these kids explore the open market for their labor?
To be fair, he probably needs to conscript an army of eighteen year olds into national service to get his ears cleaned. Must take fucking months to cover every square mile of those fucking things.