floofloof@lemmy.ca to United Kingdom@feddit.ukEnglish · 5 months agoConservatives plan to bring back mandatory National Servicewww.bbc.comexternal-linkmessage-square54fedilinkarrow-up1103arrow-down14cross-posted to: uk_politics@feddit.uk
arrow-up199arrow-down1external-linkConservatives plan to bring back mandatory National Servicewww.bbc.comfloofloof@lemmy.ca to United Kingdom@feddit.ukEnglish · 5 months agomessage-square54fedilinkcross-posted to: uk_politics@feddit.uk
minus-squareladel@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-25 months agoOkay, yeah, if it’s a voluntary scheme, it’s completely different. But the BBC are saying mandatory.
minus-squareFlax@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·5 months agoThey said on Radio 4 this morning that it wasn’t ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ unless I misunderstood
minus-squareHumanPenguin@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·5 months agoThe sceme is mandatory. Military service is an option. But you must spend 25 days doing one of the options. Of course the options are NHS Policing or mental health. All things tories have screwed. So using teens as slave labour to look like they are fixing their own screw ups. Would be a fair description.
Okay, yeah, if it’s a voluntary scheme, it’s completely different. But the BBC are saying mandatory.
They said on Radio 4 this morning that it wasn’t ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ unless I misunderstood
The sceme is mandatory. Military service is an option. But you must spend 25 days doing one of the options.
Of course the options are NHS Policing or mental health. All things tories have screwed.
So using teens as slave labour to look like they are fixing their own screw ups. Would be a fair description.