UK’s Sunak promises mandatory national service for 18-year-olds if elected
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Ruling Conservative Party says it will bring back national service if it wins the July 4 general election.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/15826549

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.

  • Tar_AlcaranEnglish
    17•7 months ago

    You know how to really get people interested in helping their society? Mandatory unpaid labour! Which lonely elderly person wouldn’t love to spend time with a teenager who doesn’t want to be there? Who better to help the NHS than a completely uneducated, unmotivated slave labourer? And I can see the police lining up to get the opportunity to work together with everyone who got the rejected from the other programs!

    • Match!!English
      1•7 months ago

      i think they just long for the corveés of serfdom