Sunak’s mandatory National Service is a ‘terrible idea’ | Ed Vaizey
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Published 2024-05-26
The Tories’ plan to bring back mandatory National Service will turn young voters away from the Conservatives, says Times Radio presenter Lord Vaizey.
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All Comments (21)
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I'm 64 my kids and grandkids arent going to fight for a bunch of neo-fascist Eton educated Tory w⚓'s!
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Young people face unaffordable housing, student debts, privatised monopolies and high taxes... and now they want to conscript them too? Wow.
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Put the Tories on the front line
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The people who like this think it’s a great idea for other people’s children.
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Sunak will slink off to California when he loses. His kids will never be conscripted.
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These Tories who went to Eton, Oxford, Stanford etc...among the dumbest people I've ever seen.
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Whoever convinced Sunak National Service was a vote winner must want Labour to win!
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Due to austerity policies, my children sometimes had to eat one cooked meal daily. These idiots suggest mandatory national services for our children to become canon fodder in trenches in the Baltics. Maybe the government should stop funding wars and spend taxpayers' money on education, NHS, and other public services in desperate states.
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I bet his kids wont have to do it
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On school fees… “middle class voters!?” Does he understand the actual cost of current private school fees? It’s not middle class people, it’s the wealthy.
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The army didn't want National Service after the war. It was a pointless burden on them. Employers would not want to lose staff and the people themselves would be joining the army now if they wanted to do it. Who does want this? Old right wing colonels and codgers maybe?
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I will never ever ever allow my boys to fight for this corrupt government
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I doubt the army or navy would want this. A group of young people who don't want to be there.
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My wife told me this this morning, I thought she was either joking or clicked on some daily mail Clickbait story. Just when you think Sunak couldn’t get any dafter.
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people want their weekly shop not to double again, not have kids forced to join the army
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Ill thought-out final act of Conservative Party self-destruction.
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Restore national pride, vote a Tory out
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Excellent!!! That's the way to lose an election. You carry on, Rish. Byeeeee
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As if a labour victory wasn't already likely, they've just been handed the "vote us or your kids will be forced to join the army" card
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National Service, the number 1 priority on voters minds!
