UK Conservatives plan to bring back mandatory national service

[Note for yanks and other OOTL people: The Conservative party has just called an election in the next couple of weeks. Knowing that they're completely dead and buried, they're desperately throwing more and more insane promises at the electorate to see what sticks.]

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The Conservative Party has said it would bring back mandatory national service if it wins the general election.

It said 18-year-olds would have a choice of either joining the military full-time, or volunteering one weekend every month carrying out a community service.
The party is proposing a Royal Commission to consider the details but would plan for the first teenagers to take part in September 2025.
The cost is expected to be around £2.5bn per year.
Under the plans, young people could choose a full-time, 12-month placement in the armed forces or UK cyber defence, learning about logistics, cyber security, procurement or civil response operations.
Their other option would be to volunteer one weekend per month - or 25 days per year - in their community with organisations such as fire, police and the NHS.
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said he believed bringing back compulsory service across the UK would help foster the "national spirit" that emerged during the pandemic.
Mr Sunak said: “This is a great country but generations of young people have not had the opportunities or experience they deserve and there are forces trying to divide our society in this increasingly uncertain world.
“I have a clear plan to address this and secure our future. I will bring in a new model of National Service to create a shared sense of purpose among our young people and a renewed sense of pride in our country."
The prime minister said the move would help young people to learn "real world skills, do new things and contribute to their community and our country".

 

[Bloom Worm Cross Field]

Literally all they had to do to win votes was to actually deliver on the promises to cut immigration that they've been making over and over for 15 years, and that the country voted for with Brexit. Instead we've had a decade and a half of the highest rate of immigration in the country's history. And as a final spit in the face, they're proposing that the citizens of this country take up arms to serve the government that sees them as a fungible biological asset, no more privileged in considerations and no more of a constituent than any given Ranjeet Prajnathan, 30, from Uttar Pradesh. And the scheme will only cost several billion pounds a year (hey, that's about what we're spending to put up all the illegal immigrants in hotels).

 

[Butterschmalz]

Yeah bring it back asap, that ll fix the birthrate too.

 

[Yet Another Wanker]

Britain's fucked mate at this point the only fix is mass emigration. Labour can't fix shit; no left wing party can. At best they shake things up a bit and make big but necessary changes at worst you get California. I hope the Tories get wiped out and replaced by Reform. And to think people thought David Cameron was the worst PM since Lord North well guess what fuck you Liz Truss.

 

[Random Internet Person]

Britain's fucked mate at this point the only fix is mass emigration. Labour can't fix shit; no left wing party can. At best they shake things up a bit and make big but necessary changes at worst you get California.

Isn't Labor slated to make big wins in the elections coming up?

I hope the Tories get wiped out and replaced by Reform. And to think people thought David Cameron was the worst PM since Lord North well guess what fuck you Liz Truss.

Literally all they had to do to win votes was to actually deliver on the promises to cut immigration that they've been making over and over for 15 years, and that the country voted for with Brexit. Instead we've had a decade and a half of the highest rate of immigration in the country's history. And as a final spit in the face, they're proposing that the citizens of this country take up arms to serve the government that sees them as a fungible biological asset, no more privileged in considerations and no more of a constituent than any given Ranjeet Prajnathan, 30, from Uttar Pradesh. And the scheme will only cost several billion pounds a year (hey, that's about what we're spending to put up all the illegal immigrants in hotels).

The fact that no viable MAGA equivalent in Britian has stepped up to the plate and made gains in politics has to be the absolute craziest part of the post Brexit England. At least America could get MTG and Boebert in Congress.

If only Farage hadn't resigned right after Brexit was voted into reality...

 

[Your Starter for 10]

I will wait until I hear Lord Buckethead's stance on the issue.

 

[The Gene Genie]

The fact that no viable MAGA equivalent in Britian has stepped up to the plate and made gains in politics has to be the absolute craziest part of the post Brexit England. At least America could get MTG and Boebert in Congress.

If only Farage hadn't resigned right after Brexit was voted into reality...

It's because all of the Members of Parliament and the actual gear-turners of the political system are friends from their Oxbridge days and the debates in Parliament are literally just re-enactment of debate club. None of the people there give a shit. They're not even landed gentry with an ostensible investment in the future of the Nation. They're rootless college-educated merchant elite.

 

[WhiskeyJack]

Hmm... yes, take a large group of disaffected males, train them in tactics, communication, cyber warfare, and military weapons use, and force them against their will to serve a government that very openly and obnoxiously proclaims its hate for each and every one of them and their kin.

This will surely turn out great for everybody.

 

[Bloom Worm Cross Field]

Isn't Labor slated to make big wins in the elections coming up?

Yes, we have a shit electoral system so, while it's not as entrenched as in the US, it's almost a de facto 2-party system. Labour are going to win big, but this election has to be about clearing room for a true opposition, which means killing and burying the Conservative party, and salting the earth atop.

Also, while on paper are worse than the Tories, the Tories have spent the last 15 years playing "bad cop", making "tough" promises about cutting immigration. This has meant that they've been able to ramp legal and illegal immigration to formerly unimaginable levels while half the electorate are still convinced that they (a government that at one point bragged about having zero white men in the cabinet) are far-right fascists. Having our mass immigration done by a party of out-and-proud true believers is much easier to oppose.

I hope the Tories get wiped out and replaced by Reform.

Let's see. I'm not too hopeful since Richard Tice looks like a seedy salesman with no actual interest in the cause he's offering, and Farage has decided to swan off to the US to chase Trump brown-nosing bux. Everything I've seen indicates that Reform don't know how to be a serious political party, but we'll see. I'll probably vote for them if they're standing, even though their immigration policy is really weasel-wordy (stopping "non-essential" workers from coming, ending "abusive" visa schemes).

 

[Fagnacious D]

Are they trying to lose?

 

[Yet Another Wanker]

Isn't Labor slated to make big wins in the elections coming up?

https://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/prediction_main.html


That's an no condom 80's AIDS Arse fucking. Worst than 1832 and 1997 it's over Tory bros you won't be able to spend taxpayer dollars on snorting coke off of overage hookers.

The fact that no viable MAGA equivalent in Britian has stepped up to the plate and made gains in politics has to be the absolute craziest part of the post Brexit England. At least America could get MTG and Boebert in Congress.

Partly its the fact Trump did fuck all as president

If only Farage hadn't resigned right after Brexit was voted into reality...

I blame First Past the Post had UKIP gotten the seats that their supporters voted for. Who knows Westminster could have made Farage a lolcow maybe Brexit never happens at the very least Parliament would of had to consider the hard line Breixters much more than the crocked Tories.

My predictions for Brit Bongs

20% odds for total IRA Victory Jim Allister and Ian Paisley's rotten corpse go to Dublin and beg for Irish Unifications.
100% odds Labour Victory.
40% odds Stammer does a Clement Attlee and loses the 2029 election possible to a resurgent Boris
60% Jeremy Corbyn wins as an Independent
and dark horse 1% odds for Welsh independence before the Scots get theirs

 

[SirCliveSinclairdabbing]

The fact that no viable MAGA equivalent in Britian has stepped up to the plate and made gains in politics has to be the absolute craziest part of the post Brexit England.

Workers party of Great Britain

 

[Fatniggo1488]

I think they should bring it back just because it would be funny to see the farms/reddit filled with posts of people crying about getting draft notices.

 

[dustbuster]

Isn't Labor slated to make big wins in the elections coming up?

Yes.
The Tories betrayed their own base on the same order as "Speaker Johson" here in the states (and over the same issues: free speech, "trans rights", and Immigration).
They're a dead party walking, and they poisoned the well for any future conservative movement by refusing to repeal blairite laws that made actual conservatism in the UK "hate crime"

If I were sworn in to the US presidency tomorrow I would begin IMMEDIATELY pivoting to an alliance with the Russians against the rapidly islamizing EU and UK

 

[Snekposter]

Hmm... yes, take a large group of disaffected males, train them in tactics, communication, cyber warfare, and military weapons use, and force them against their will to serve a government that very openly and obnoxiously proclaims its hate for each and every one of them and their kin.

This will surely turn out great for everybody.

The Irish had gotten their asses handed to them by the Bongs every time they tried an uprising for literal centuries until a bunch of veterans came back from the trenches of WW1. Hell, the Irish even launched an uprising during WW1 that the English put down with relative ease.

 

[Whoopsie Daisy]

Liz Truss was the last chance for the UK to be fixed. She was shafted by the WEF, as plain as day and everyone could see it. Yet, the media had Truss Derangement syndrome and the niggercattle chortled about lettuce as an elected leader was illegally deposed.

We need Guy Fawkes 2.

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

Are they trying to lose?

They brought back David Cameron.

The Conservatives are trying to harder to lose the election than Labour are to win it. I half think this has been released to conceal the fact that Labour are planning to give 16/17 year olds the vote, something they have smugly said will help them to win future elections.

 

[Kiwisee]

Just send the Pakis and Pajeets to die for Israel; I'm sure they'll love to do so.

 

[Pee Cola]

tbh that's not the worst idea the Tories have ever had

 

[Dr J]

And as a final spit in the face, they're proposing that the citizens of this country take up arms to serve the government that sees them as a fungible biological asset, no more privileged in considerations and no more of a constituent than any given Ranjeet Prajnathan, 30, from Uttar Pradesh.

Hmm... yes, take a large group of disaffected males, train them in tactics, communication, cyber warfare, and military weapons use, and force them against their will to serve a government that very openly and obnoxiously proclaims its hate for each and every one of them and their kin.

This is the best case scenario. The worse case scenario is that most of Britain's youth are second and third generation mass migrants, who certainly have no allegiance to the country, if not outright hate the country, and Tories want to teach them how to be more effective killers.

Isn't this what brought down the Roman Empire? The Romans getting foreign mercenaries to fight their wars for them because no Roman with sense would actually do it.