Animals & Nature1 min ago
Call to bring back national service.
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http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/264874
It seems that 72 per cent supported the idea, and only 17 per cent were opposed to it.
Before any dismiss this out of hand, please just think about it.
/// Senior Tory MP Patrick Mercer said: “If you are in being taken to hospital in Germany, the likelihood is that you are being driven by a conscripted ambulance driver. There are all sorts of important ways that National Service could benefit society, while at the same time instilling some much-needed discipline into youngsters.” ///
I personally think that Patrick Mercer MP is talking so much sense, it need not be military service, it could cover many civilian positions.
The youth would be taken off the streets and away from their home environment, also away from any peer pressure they are likely to encounter from the gang culture that is so prevalent today.
Apart from those obvious advantages, they would experience discipline, and learn a skill at the same time.
Taking into account how much our broken society is costing us, the introduction of a type of national service would be self funding.
It seems that 72 per cent supported the idea, and only 17 per cent were opposed to it.
Before any dismiss this out of hand, please just think about it.
/// Senior Tory MP Patrick Mercer said: “If you are in being taken to hospital in Germany, the likelihood is that you are being driven by a conscripted ambulance driver. There are all sorts of important ways that National Service could benefit society, while at the same time instilling some much-needed discipline into youngsters.” ///
I personally think that Patrick Mercer MP is talking so much sense, it need not be military service, it could cover many civilian positions.
The youth would be taken off the streets and away from their home environment, also away from any peer pressure they are likely to encounter from the gang culture that is so prevalent today.
Apart from those obvious advantages, they would experience discipline, and learn a skill at the same time.
Taking into account how much our broken society is costing us, the introduction of a type of national service would be self funding.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.National Service would catch everyone though, including the many excellent teenagers and young people I work with, who are in stage school, in the cadet forces, at work, making good life choices at an early age. It wouldn't only take the rampant youth off the streets, it would hold up for two years those who are doing good and with promising futures. Perhaps there could be a model which says that if you haven't got a job within a year of leaving school, THEN do some square-bashing?
However, as has been said before, why should the Forces get all the dross? They need committed people with skills and team spirit, not youngsters who have no faith in their own abilities, nor any commitment to anyone else's well being. And as Gromit says, the Army have already had one looter in their ranks, and say that they are expecting more to have been involved last week, as many are on leave at the moment. Recruitment into the Forces didn't do that chap much good, he didn't learn anything....
However, as has been said before, why should the Forces get all the dross? They need committed people with skills and team spirit, not youngsters who have no faith in their own abilities, nor any commitment to anyone else's well being. And as Gromit says, the Army have already had one looter in their ranks, and say that they are expecting more to have been involved last week, as many are on leave at the moment. Recruitment into the Forces didn't do that chap much good, he didn't learn anything....
Can see both sides of the argument here especially the way boxtops has come across. So perhaps, there should be a scheme for those who aren't in work and commited elsewhere, those between a certain age on benefits who should be conscripted to take them away from their environment in the hope that it would turn them away from gang culture and bad ways and make them into worthwhile citizens who would be able to offer more to society than they do now. Would of course have to be mooted but that's the gist of how I would see it - fwiworth
Gromit
/// At least one serving soldier has been arrested during the riots. So much for the military instilling decipline and respect.///
That is truly the most pathetic argument I have come across, but then it is not the first time you have wheeled it out.
One serving soldier out of the whole British Army, blimey the whole discipline of the Army is at risk.
/// At least one serving soldier has been arrested during the riots. So much for the military instilling decipline and respect.///
That is truly the most pathetic argument I have come across, but then it is not the first time you have wheeled it out.
One serving soldier out of the whole British Army, blimey the whole discipline of the Army is at risk.
boxtops
Please don't follow Gromit's failed argument.
As in all areas of society if everyone was law-abiding there would be no need for the police, criminal justice and prisons.
Likewise if all military personnel were perfect models of discipline and law-abiding, there would be no need for the Military Police, court-martials or military Prisons.
And as I have already said, National Service doesn't necessarily mean military service.
Please don't follow Gromit's failed argument.
As in all areas of society if everyone was law-abiding there would be no need for the police, criminal justice and prisons.
Likewise if all military personnel were perfect models of discipline and law-abiding, there would be no need for the Military Police, court-martials or military Prisons.
And as I have already said, National Service doesn't necessarily mean military service.
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