Conscription Is On The Table

[Khandro]

Rishi's plan to bring it back;

https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1903634/UK-Army-conscription-National-Service-announcement-Rishi-Sunak

Would you welcome it ?

[andy-hughes]

The power of direct inverse proprtion is in play here - the further away your age is from eighteen, the better idea you think this is!

This is an absurd notion designed to appear to the older generation of Tory supporters.

Just because they are old doesn't mean they are stupid, or blind to how much the world has changed since they did their National Service.

It's another Corbyn-esque idea - the further away the chances of Sunak having to enact his policies, the more looney they get.

[andres]

Yes, bring back conscription as soon as possible . If the Kremlin carry out their threat to attack Nato if Ukraine use weapons supplied by the US we will be in a mess. It will be no good waiting to see if they carry out their threat. A governments first priority should be defence. 

I do agree that times have changed  but a lot of other countries have had Conscription for years.We have been too lax.

[naomi24]

It's not conscription as such because it won't be compulsory to join the forces.  People can say 'no' and opt to do community service instead.  

[douglas9401]

Has anybody said 'conchie snowflakes' yet?
If not, you know they want to.

[Ellipsis]

Pandering to the luckiest generation that ever lived ...

[douglas9401]

Quite possibly, ellipsis, and for a change most were included, not just the toffs.

[douglas9401]

Allow me to capitalise. 'E' 😊

[naomi24]

Who are 'the toffs'?

[Ellipsis]

Google luckiest generation that ever lived and the results are unanimous.

The toffs are the haves that have progressively more and more, at the expense of the have nots. And in the luckiest generation, most have more compared to following generations. And they are living longer, voters and relatively selfish, so if course they are pandered to by the desperate. Which is why two new policies created out of thin air after 14 years are the Triple Lock Plus pension and National Service.

[naomi24]

I think practically everyone now has 'progressively more and more'.  Home ownership, cars, foreign holidays, none of it is now solely the preserve of the rich.   Those who remain mentally wallowing in the politics of the past either don't recognise it or refuse to acknowledge it.  I suspect the latter.

[DTCwordfan]

If Putin nukes us - and we and others, them, a conscript military or social force hardly matters when we are fried pork and ash. Have you seen the maps on the impact of various nuclear devices on us?

Try the Tsar Bomba, a 100,000kt hit on where you live...not pretty reading. 

 https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/

[Ellipsis]

The Silent Generation 

Baby Boomer

Gen X

Millennials

Generation Z

Generation Alpha 

Is it a progressively getting better and better?

[DTCwordfan]

'Generation Vapourised' next??

[Untitled]

Ellipsis is quite right... millennials and after can all expect to be poorer than their parents and grandparents who are still patting themselves on the back for doing well out of the property boom that started in the 80s... now the vast majority of young and middle aged people cannot afford to buy property without fanily money and their rent goes up much faster than their wages do. and that's before you consider things like the climate catastrophe

[naomi24]

//now the vast majority of young and middle aged people cannot afford to buy property without fanily money//

 

The Bank of Dad has been in business for generations.  Nothing new there.

[Untitled]

"nothing new"? really? 
 

https://www.propertyinvestmentproject.co.uk/property-statistics/house-prices-adjusted-for-inflation-graph/
 

https://www.financialreporter.co.uk/income-to-house-price-ratio-more-than-doubles-since-the-70s.html
 

https://thinkmoon.co.uk/why-rent-is-higher-today-than-in-previous-generations/

https://www.personneltoday.com/hr/wage-stagnation-uk-resolution-foundation/

housing costs have never been higher... rents the most expensive ever and average incomes are not growing."nothing new" apparently... what rubbish

[naomi24]

It's certainly rubbish when your response to a post bears no relation to the original, untitled.  

[Ellipsis]

It is definitely harder to get on the property ladder for Millennials and Gen Z than it was in the previous two generations, Baby Boomers (the luckiest generation ever) and Gen X. And I don't see how National Service would help remedy that situation ...