General Election - 4th July 2024

[bluethrunthru]

If I were 18 again, I would literally go to jail before being coerced into anything. The idea that the state has some right to your time is unconscionable to me.

so - the answer to 16 - 17 year olds voting is to conscript 18 year olds ........ think about that

 

[bluethrunthru]

It appeals to a sort of blazered fascist who reads the Daily Mail and will lap this up. 'Just what those young wimps need!' The said blazered fascist having never been in the armed services except in the fantasies in his head where he machine-guns brown people.

you need to be at least 84 to have done nasha - most of those advocating this never did it and - funnily enough - never volunteered to do service but the KNOW its needed - I am 63 this year and if I had their attitude I'd be claiming I fought and died at Verdun for their freedoms - thats how shallow this is and thats the Tories voter pool

 

[Don Karleone]

 

[Vic]

At last, a policy that will get young people voting.

 

[WestGorton]

Sunak is a total **** like Truss and Johnson. Deport him and his fraud no dom Mrs.

 

[Bill Walker]

If I were 18 again, I would literally go to jail before being coerced into anything. The idea that the state has some right to your time is unconscionable to me.

Yeah but there's always the travel and the skiing.

 

[WNRH]

Have people just read the headline and not the idea?

It’s not about getting 18 year olds running up hills singing “I don’t know what I been told”

I don’t like the Conservatives or Sunak but any idea that gets young people serving their communities once a month is a positive for society even under the guise of ‘National Service’. Why stop at 18? It would be a start for all ages to serve their communities even by small things like picking up litter or not dropping it in the first place!

It shows the state of politics that any positive idea is picked apart by the “other side”. Both sides should be actively encouraging young people to care about the place they live and the people they live beside.

 

[uwerosler28]

This my vote lost already. No way my kids are being demanded to go off to the military or such. My contribution to society is the 10's thousands I have paid in taxes , you aren't taking my families time as well. One thing is for sure this soft introduction will ramp up if a future PM goes to war , the volunteering element will dissappear fast as an option straight away.

 

[Vic]

Have people just read the headline and not the idea?

It’s not about getting 18 year olds running up hills singing “I don’t know what I been told”

I don’t like the Conservatives or Sunak but any idea that gets young people serving their communities once a month is a positive for society even under the guise of ‘National Service’. Why stop at 18? It would be a start for all ages to serve their communities even by small things like picking up litter or not dropping it in the first place!

It shows the state of politics that any positive idea is picked apart by the “other side”. Both sides should be actively encouraging young people to care about the place they live and the people they live beside.

It's not even a "plan". They'd set up a royal commission to turn it into a plan.

They've let old people screw the young with Brexit, house building (lack of), voting ID, and the "idea" that you can rob a young person of a year (or even a few weekends for a year) is frankly ludicrous.

If Sunak had to give up a year of work, it'd cost him £2m... (not that that is "earned" income). Do you think Tory boys and girls would be exempt? Bring back Bevan boys and send them down mines. You know it would have been good for Johnson.

 

[Bluesince1979]

It's not even a "plan". They'd set up a royal commission to turn it into a plan.

They've let old people screw the young with Brexit, house building (lack of), voting ID, and the "idea" that you can rob a young person of a year (or even every weekend for a year) is frankly ludicrous.

If Sunak had to give up a year of work, it'd cost him £2m... (not that that is "earned" income). Do you think Tory boys and girls would be exempt? Bring back Bevan boys and send them down mines. You know it would have been good for Johnson.

Senators son by creedance clearwater revival springs to mind