Sunak promises to introduce mandatory national service for 18 year olds

[likesfish]

evil but stupid is better than evil and competent . That's why we have more CCTV than anywhere but half of it is turned off broken or not monitored or shows vauge images of a bloke in a hoody obviously HM goverment sees 1984 as an aspiration (thats all partys) council's used powers designed to confrontt terrorists to go after dog foulers fly tippers and people breaking school catchment area rules!

That's the problem give the police powers they will use them regardless of how appropriate to the problem, persistant illegal parking is a problem drones strikes is not an appropriate response.
obviously "nefarious youth" need to be dragged off to dig fighting trenches in the rain on otterburn*
* many other shitty training areas are available
but obviously not their children or friends children

 

[SpookyFrank]

evil but stupid is better than evil and competent .

Damning the UK miltary with faint praise there.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

 

[Dogsauce]

Thing is, while we’re all discussing this and pointing out the flaws, nobody is talking about the government’s appalling economic record, or Labour’s plans and so on. It’s political shitposting (or maybe a dead cat?), throwing out a stupid idea as a distraction from everything else. Seems to be working very well to me.

 

[ska invita]

Thing is, while we’re all discussing this and pointing out the flaws, nobody is talking about the government’s appalling economic record, or Labour’s plans and so on. It’s political shitposting (or maybe a dead cat?), throwing out a stupid idea as a distraction from everything else. Seems to be working very well to me.

100pc its an empty electoral move and an effective one from a Tory perspective
However give it a few years and the fascist creep being what it is we will be getting this in some form before long

 

[MickiQ]

Nah even if the Tories win (and at the moment I would give better odds Larry the Cat being our next PM rather than Sevenbins) it will quietly get forgotten and never be spoken of again.

 

[bellaozzydog]

I am talking about basic conscription military service, not processional soldiers. Certainly as cannon fodder infantry is concerned, which is where the great majority non-professional soldiers end up in.

if you keep digging you’ll end up in a defensive trench position with overhead cover before long

Maybe find an infantry soldier and explain how simple their job is

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

Or just pick the ones who are shit hot at Call of Duty.

Maybe if it was Arma 3

 

[NoXion]

because pushing Sprint on the Xbox is totally the same as running 500m with body armour a helmet rifle etc

Indeed. It wasn't lofty political ideals that put me off of pursuing a military career when I was younger, but the fact that it turned out to be damned hard work. I was fortunate enough to be given a taste of that life before committing, and I went "nope".

 

[A380]

 

[Calamity1971]

Hang on. Kids got furlough?
Suppose the ones that now have MH problems can be sorted by some twat shouting at them.

 

[brogdale]

Hang on. Kids got furlough?
Suppose the ones that now have MH problems can be sorted by some twat shouting at them.

Plumbing Trumpian depths of misinformation.

 

[likesfish]

if you keep digging you’ll end up in a defensive trench position with overhead cover before long

Maybe find an infantry soldier and explain how simple their job is

infanteer work is pretty simple till you see corps try to do it or go up against conscripts and they are just hopeless. Turns out it only looked simple because we trained constantly to do it.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

Hang on. Kids got furlough?
Suppose the ones that now have MH problems can be sorted by some twat shouting at them.

the kids that were still at school when furlough happened?

 

[Calamity1971]

the kids that were still at school when furlough happened?

14/15 year olds? Yep, thems the ones.

 

[Pickman's model]

Hang on. Kids got furlough?
Suppose the ones that now have MH problems can be sorted by some twat shouting at them.

Let's hope the first youngsters to avail themselves of weapons training via the proposed national service scheme use it to take out the nefandous and shifty looking Hamish de Bretton-gordon

 

[Calamity1971]

Let's hope the first youngsters to avail themselves of weapons training via the proposed national service scheme use it to take out the nefandous and shifty looking Hamish de Bretton-gordon

Corporal Hamish de bretton Gordon obe to you.

 

[brogdale]

Vermin scum do have he most ridiculous fucking names, don't they?

 

[Raheem]

the kids that were still at school when furlough happened?

Yep. The ones who missed huge chunks of school but it was ok because there was going to be a massive investment in education so they could catch up but it never happened because it was a barefaced lie. Bout time they gave something back.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

Bout time they gave something back.

like a brick or two through the right windows...

 

[Wilf]

That's Colonel Hamish de Bretton-Gordon OBE, who was sponsored through university by the army. The freeloading cunt.

He's also a chemical weapons expert. The cunt.

Hamish de Bretton-Gordon - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Saul Goodman]

That's Colonel Hamish de Bretton-Gordon OBE, who was sponsored through university by the army. The freeloading cunt.

He's also a chemical weapons expert. The cunt.

Hamish de Bretton-Gordon - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

He's also a cunt. The cunt.

 

[likesfish]

Could we have a spivs unit made up of the chancers who got ppe and other dodgy loans.
Ok military it would be pretty useless. But pvt moane lying in a shell scrape on the edge of a forestry plantation in the drizzle would warm so many cold dead hearts?

 

[kebabking]

Could we have a spivs unit made up of the chancers who got ppe and other dodgy loans.
Ok military it would be pretty useless. But pvt moane lying in a shell scrape on the edge of a forestry plantation in the drizzle would warm so many cold dead hearts?

A trebuchet, Tory spivs, and a minefield that needs clearing you say?....

 

[Nylock]

That's Colonel Hamish de Bretton-Gordon OBE, who was sponsored through university by the army. The freeloading cunt.

He's also a chemical weapons expert. The cunt.

Hamish de Bretton-Gordon - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Wtf is it with the rank of colonel that seems to attract all the nutters?

 

[wemakeyousoundb]

Wtf is it with the rank of colonel that seems to attract all the nutters?

peter principle?

 

[likesfish]

Wtf is it with the rank of colonel that seems to attract all the nutters?

Joined the chav cav didn’t get to lead a tank unit got the chemical warfare unit basically a bunch of nerds who drive around in armoured laboratories worrying we brought off the Germans who can tell you exactly what your dying of.
They hang out at porton down a lot and have zero offensive capability as nerve gas just isn’t that effective against a prepared military and we have trident if we want to go the genocide route.
He probably went more insane instead of have relaxing evening badger baiting or horse wrestling whatever cavalry officers do for fun. Instead found himself surrounded by chemists who think playing with a mobile mass spectrometer is the most fun ever and can’t belive they are being paid for this.
If you do see one of their Luchs chemical recce vehicles big 8x8 armoured thing give it a wide birth or their explain what they are doing unless organic mass spectrometry is your thing your regret it

 

[Lotte]

The army wants economic conscription. The services recruit hard in low income areas.

Christ. I hadn't even thought of that.