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.

  • @DrCakeEnglish
    20•6 months ago

    You’re missing that they are just incompetent and awful at politics

    • @ccunningEnglish
      9•6 months ago

      But haven’t they been in power for like 10 years or something?

      That may be more of a condemnation of their opposition than of them…

      • @DrCakeEnglish
        5•6 months ago

        It partly is but also that they’ve just ran out of “talent”. Anyone who was any good was there at the start and they’ve just not been able to replace them.

        • @richmondezEnglish
          2•6 months ago

          More like actively removed them for yes men at the last election because the competent ones opposed brexit. The current administration is more a populist brexit party than a traditions Conservative platform.