Might Conscription Become A Thing?

[sandyRoe]

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/09/26/civilians-must-be-ready-to-fight-as-army-so-small-say-lords/

I think many young people would be prepared to defend their country, but there'd also be others who would run a mile from the prospect of military life.

Would a modern day conscript make a good soldier?

[davebro3]

fech the HoL committee - CLINTS!

(get back to your TV sandy)

[ToraToraTora]

Perlease!

[Canary42]

It would depend very much on the style of the training.

And in the true reflection of today's "equality" it should apply to both girls and boys.  

[stands back to watch the feminists back-pedalling furiously 😁   😁   😁   😁   😁   😁   😁   😁   ]

[Old_Geezer]

As I understand it, conscripts tend to make bad soldiers. Which is why one tries to get volunteers first. But if there was a war it would likely to be as part of NATO, and between them all there should be enough to sort any external power out without forcing others to join up.

[Untitled]

young people today will simply not accept conscription... and nor should they. there's no good reason that young british men should be sent to die in the donbas or in israel.

the reason the army is so small is because such a large proportion of our defense budget go into stupid wasteful and useless nuclear weapons. it is laughable that the UK maintains a nuclear arsenal as it is not in any meaningful sense independent and it is effectively just putting together american missiles on british soil that cannot be fired without american software. if we got rid of that we'd have plenty of money for a well-equipped and well-paid conventional forces... or alternatively with this country's excellent research capacity we could use it to become leaders in "unconventional forces". but we won't because we persist in the fantasy of being a great power and that means we have to pee away huge amounts of our defence budget on nukes.

[Old_Geezer]

So you don't believe Putin would think twice knowing we can do to him what he makes out he'll do to us ?

[ToraToraTora]

Where as I agree with your first sentance untitled must you persist with this anti British unsubstantiated BS?

[barry1010]

As good as during WWII where half a million men volunteered and over 1.5m were conscripted in the UK.  

 

[ToraToraTora]

sentence!

[Untitled]

i said we have excellent research capacity and could have excellent conventional or unconventional forces... that's not anti-british. you just call anyone who disagrees with you anti-british because you are a manbaby with access to a keyboard. 

[ToraToraTora]

You know what I'm referring to.

 

[ynnafymmi]

If only the Ukrainians had nuclear weapons Untitled,there would be one less war in the world.

[Untitled]

ukraine has never had nuclear weapons. the ones they got rid of in the '90s were soviet missiles that were stationed on ukranian soil and then moved after ukraine became independent. it is a myth that ukraine disarmed.

ukraine is also in a different situation because it is bordered by a much larger hostile state. the uk is not in that position.

[Untitled]

or to put it another way... the uk is already occupied by the USA.

[ynnafymmi]

"The UK is occupied by the USA"....that *** Biden.I take it you are a Trump fan?

[bookbinder]

Well, all that I can say is that, when I was conscripted in 1960, all the young men who were with me accepted what they were asked to do. However, we were not asked to go to a war zone, there was never any danger to us. Although I would not have volunteered to join the Army, I found the experience to be not unpleasant. I learned to get along with others of my age, I saw something of the world, I passed my driving test, and I learned how to use a map and a compass (which became very useful later on when I formed an interest in hill-walking, camping, etc.). All in all, I do not regret my experience of conscription.

[douglas9401]

The whole knife amnesty thing is clarified as UK weapons stockpiles increase on a daily basis.

'Close quarter combat will be an integral part of our strategy going forward' says bod who cut back early warning systems covering the fifth largest economy in the world.

[Togo]

//I think many young people would be prepared to defend their country//

So do I. However Starmer has decided that he will lock them up if they try to. 

[tommy39]

we have an army willing to fight for us,we see them on the streets every weekend,and arriving by boat..so fear not folk's,from the top to the toe england will not go

[Peter Pedant]

conscription is different from training a citizen army you naughty boy

Very unpopular measure - and was introduced reluctantly in 1916

and then in 1939 pretty quickly