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National Service Bill 2013-2014 - The ball is rolling

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ricardo08

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So this is currently being discussed in the House of Commons. A show of hands for those that have already heard about this via a mainstream news outlet? Didn't think so. Looks like they're trying to push to get us enlisted as soon as we're over fighting age. Conscription in the UK has been put in place twice before, once in 1916 during WWI (Military Service Act, 1916), and again in 1939 during the outbreak of WWII (National Service (Armed Forces) Act, 1939), and now, potentially, again in 2014.

Who else is excited to become a trained killer?!

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http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2013-14/nationalservice.html

Mods, feel free to move this to CE&P should you deem it necessary.
 
There is absolutely no appetite for it amongst politicians or the army. The great unwashed are less deferential these days, less willing to throw themselves blindly over trenches. Not while Jeremy Kyle is on. And they have votes. Last time conscripts came back from a war they voted Churchill out of power. Authority learned its lesson.

The army laugh at conscription. They want people who can get out of bed in the morning.
 
Will we still be able to watch Jeremy kyle in the trenches? 3 square meals a day. A sharp uniform. Bed t' sleep in. If only there were more wars.
 
Maybe not at this moment in time, but who knows where we will be in a year or two. What if another large scale war was to break out? Then it might become a more realistic option.
 
I'd love to do national service. I'd have joined the TA but for the fear of being sent to war and coming home in a union jacked up coffin. No thatnk you. I'd enjoy all the assault course though.
 
What commanding officer is going to want to take on a bunch of unwilling kids with especial talents for sabotage and gross insubordination and absolutely no desire to be there, if they could get recruits who were enlisting by choice?

Most people who favour conscription (and they probably also favour the death penalty, oppose birth control and believe in "if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear" -- yet they still seal the envelope when writing to the newspaper) would not wish to be conscripted themselves; and of the ones who would, the military would not want them.

It's almost a pointless exercise -- except, it will be worth seeing how it divides our representatives.
 
BecomingJulie said:
What commanding officer is going to want to take on a bunch of unwilling kids with especial talents for sabotage and gross insubordination and absolutely no desire to be there, if they could get recruits who were enlisting by choice?
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Aren't those unwilling, insubordinate kids usually the ones who proceed to join up of their own volition a few years down the line though? :D

Another empty, populist gesture from our esteemed government. How about we just send all the people who voted Lib Dem to do national service instead?
 
parttime crackhead said:
Why is this even being talking about in the House of Commons? I fucking hate politicians, wasting time over this pointless shit that doesn't have a hope in hell of passing.
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Some very important bills have been introduced via private members bills. So I guess you have to put up with the shit to get the good stuff.
 
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