Current Affairs UK General Election July

[NorthernBlue]

I’ve never understood the appeal of joining the army personally. Signing my life away for a few years with the real possibility that I’d get sent away as cannon fodder to protect some rich person’s claim to a bit of oil somewhere ….. nah, not my cup of tea

What gets me is when they come back from one of these illegal wars, all high and mighty about the service they’ve given protecting us all. Yeah ok mate. Imaging losing legs for oil and gas pipes for rich people to get richer.

 

[LostLegend]

Funny that it’s only people who are too old to have to do National Service who are suggesting it’s a good idea

 

[Walken]

Farage interviewed by Trevor Phillips this morning , he is running head first into blatant Islamophobia and racism . Vile individual, directly said we can see these anti-British people at the Palestine marches alongside well meaning middle class girls called jacinda. Not even trying to hide his hate

Hes honestly despicable

Of course he is, well done British media, keep making this talentless lying scumbag relevant

 

[Jebus_lives]

In Estonia national service has been a thing for a long time, and they recently modified it so that people with an interest in IT can join the cyber defence part of the military.

Cybersecurity education: Estonian innovative solution for IT students

In Estonia vocational IT students can pass military service in the Cyber Command Forces as part of cybersecurity education.

www.educationestonia.org

I know the people behind this and they say the scheme works well and has helped address the skills shortage in cybersecurity more broadly in the country. Finland operates a similar scheme, which given that they routinely top both the PISA education rankings and the global happiness index doesn't quite paint the picture of childhoods being destroyed.

Obviously if the Tories are in charge then it's almost certain to be ballsed up, but still, the apparent hysteria does seem somewhat over the top and I hope we're not going to have another 6 weeks of this.

Perhaps announcing it 3 days into the campaign, as something seemigly plucked out of thin air, is where the problem lies.

I don't think it's such a bad idea in principle, but you know this lot will balls it up and will find someway to siphon all the money off.

 

[Huyton Layne]

Bring back the workhouse

There's facebook groups comparing old and new pics. Similar to our thread but always people saying "oh, looked better in the past" "should never have been knocked down". A bunch of people were upset at these old buildings being demolished for the eyesore that is the Catholic Cathedral until others pointed out it was a giant workhouse that held like 2000 people. Ah the good old days.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Perhaps announcing it 3 days into the campaign, as something seemigly plucked out of thin air, is where the problem lies.

I don't think it's such a bad idea in principle, but you know this lot will balls it up and will find someway to siphon all the money off.

Undoubtedly so.

 

[summerisle]

Been months in the pipeline, apparently...

 

[LostLegend]

Further proof, by the way, that the Tories know most of their center right voters are buggering off and they have no choice but to pander to the Daily Heil reading freaks, who will be foaming at the mouth with the prospect of sending young people off to do forced volunteer work "That'll knock some sense into 'em"

Also, "lets underfund, cut and sell off our emergency services for decades then set up a national service to compel young people to fill in the gaps."

Pure desperation from that lot at this point.

 

[Goat]

 

[orchard]

 

[Goat]

 

[orchard]

 

[Goat]

Is this you?

 

[Harryflashman]

Funny that it’s only people who are too old to have to do National Service who are suggesting it’s a good idea

These people have convinced themselves not only did they do national service , it was the making of them and they also fought in both world wars .

I’ve heard cleverly a few times today talking about taking young people out of their social bubbles and ensuring they mix with disparate groups of people . Whilst the person introducing the scheme was videoed as a young person talking about how he didn’t associate with working class people.

I swear I think the whole world is going mad

 

[Goat]

These people have convinced themselves not only did they do national service , it was the making of them and they also fought in both world wars .

I’ve heard cleverly a few times today talking about taking young people out of their social bubbles and ensuring they mix with disparate groups of people . Whilst the person introducing the scheme was videoed as a young person talking about how he didn’t associate with working class people.

I swear I think the whole word is going mad

No you are indeed correct, the world has lost its collective minds.

Covid and Trump.

Thats when the world changed.