I mean, it is possible that Sunak is playing the long game here. That he knows without a shadow of a doubt, like the rest of us the Tories are getting wiped out, the biblical flood is about to hit their party electorally, and they’re going to lose, bad. That by floating (no pun intended) national service/conscription right off the bat, knowing it’s an absolute loser, but that you can’t divide by the zero sum gain of losing the election, he’s setting Labour up for the remote (yet ever increasing) possibility of a ground war with Russia and the future need for mandatory service, thereby making him and the Tory party look prescient and Sir Keir and Labour look woefully behind the pins. No other possible explanation for it at least that I see.
I mean, it is possible that Sunak is playing the long game here. That he knows without a shadow of a doubt, like the rest of us the Tories are getting wiped out, the biblical flood is about to hit their party electorally, and they’re going to lose, bad. That by floating (no pun intended) national service/conscription right off the bat, knowing it’s an absolute loser, but that you can’t divide by the zero sum gain of losing the election, he’s setting Labour up for the remote (yet ever increasing) possibility of a ground war with Russia and the future need for mandatory service, thereby making him and the Tory party look prescient and Sir Keir and Labour look woefully behind the pins. No other possible explanation for it at least that I see.
That he’s a moron, there’s also the explanation that he’s a moron.
He’s the only idiot that could be convinced to take the ship’s wheel after everything Johnson, May, and that Cabbage put the party through.