The minimum wage here is higher than Real Life I believe, and at any rate, it's better than the £50-70 per week that they'd currently be getting. Even with Workfare on a 40 hour placement people effectively earn less than £2 per hour.(Original post by greatguy136)
The minimum wage? What absolute bs.
They should be paid the proper wage just like anyone else doing them jobs would get.
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- 10-02-2016 16:15
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- 10-02-2016 16:17
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For a start, we'd save £15m from JSA, as well as plenty more from other benefits.
Not all of them will be in the Armed forces, £3bn isn't a lot in the grand scheme of things, especially as it's an investment.
Non-combat and combat are both completely different. Each role is either designated as combat or non-combat so there's nothing vague about it.
So national service doesn't work? Would you care to explain all the other times where it has worked then? Or how about the workfare scheme which runs on the same principle?
You've estimated 180,000+, a majority of which would end up in the armed forces from the list you provided, therefore, an estimate of ~100,000 entering the armed forces is not unrealistic.
That's accommodation for 100,000 people needed. Remember that at present our armed forces number around 180,000.
You haven't talked about how you'll afford all the additional full time personnel you'll need to babysit these unwanted children, either.
No, they're not. While you get some roles like chef that you might think "we'll, obviously that's non combat", you forget the fact that forward operating bases have their own cook team, that locations like that can regularly come under fire and that everyone in the armed forces is a warfighter first, trade second. A medic can easily be out of the front line in direct enemy fire.
National service can work, at times of total war when it's all hands to the pumps. The rest of the time it's a waste of money. Especially only for 1 year - you're not actually getting any service out of them. National service here, back in the 50s, was 2 years long. And that was dismissed as a waste of money and resources. -
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- 10-02-2016 16:20
(Original post by Lime-man)
If someone has the qualifications though, I see no reason why the RAF can't train them to be pilots should all the requirements be there.
And the notion that you can train a modern pilot in less than a year is completely fanciful. It takes ~5 years. Minimum service for any pilot is 12 years. -
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- 10-02-2016 16:29
No, the resources could be better spend pushing people to focus on education than providing jobs to everyone for little in return. I support a large increase in the armed forces but there needs to be an expansion of manpower, equipment, overseas bases, and overseas interactions with allies.
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- 10-02-2016 16:30
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£15m won't come close to being enough. You'd need to spend that much on extra uniforms.
You've estimated 180,000+, a majority of which would end up in the armed forces from the list you provided, therefore, an estimate of ~100,000 entering the armed forces is not unrealistic.
That's accommodation for 100,000 people needed. Remember that at present our armed forces number around 180,000.
You haven't talked about how you'll afford all the additional full time personnel you'll need to babysit these unwanted children, either.
No, they're not. While you get some roles like chef that you might think "we'll, obviously that's non combat", you forget the fact that forward operating bases have their own cook team, that locations like that can regularly come under fire and that everyone in the armed forces is a warfighter first, trade second. A medic can easily be out of the front line in direct enemy fire.
National service can work, at times of total war when it's all hands to the pumps. The rest of the time it's a waste of money. Especially only for 1 year - you're not actually getting any service out of them. National service here, back in the 50s, was 2 years long. And that was dismissed as a waste of money and resources.
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The RAF has no shortage of applicants for pilots. People who actually want to be there.
And the notion that you can train a modern pilot in less than a year is completely fanciful. It takes ~5 years. Minimum service for any pilot is 12 years. -
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- 10-02-2016 16:33
(Original post by Nigel Farage MEP)
No, the resources could be better spend pushing people to focus on education than providing jobs to everyone for little in return. I support a large increase in the armed forces but there needs to be an expansion of manpower, equipment, overseas bases, and overseas interactions with allies.
This isn't about the armed forces, it's about the almost 200,000 young people who haven't been in work for at least a year. Some military discipline will be good for some of them, and general work experience will be good for others. -
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- 10-02-2016 16:34
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There's nothing to suggest that the majority of these people will end up in the armed forces, you're clutching at straws. and you've also failed to take the point on board
Have you even read the full petition? It states clearly that should the situation be appropriate, the people can continue in their posts even after completing their national service. There are plenty of unemployed people that can't be bothered to work, plenty who can't find work and plenty who are holding out for something better, which is why all government institutions are involved, including the police, fire service, health service, civil service and all departments, defense is only one aspect.
And speaking as someone who is ex-military, I know for a fact the armed forces prizes itself on being an expert volunteer force. It categorically does not want thousands of people who don't want to be there. The vast majority of whom are probablyv deeply unsuitable for service anyway.
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- 10-02-2016 16:38
(Original post by Drewski)
Given the options, the armed forces are one of the few listed that have a national presence, therefore it's not an unrealistic assumption.
And speaking as someone who is ex-military, I know for a fact the armed forces prizes itself on being an expert volunteer force. It categorically does not want thousands of people who don't want to be there. The vast majority of whom are probablyv deeply unsuitable for service anyway.
Remove the armed forces from the list and then you're on. -
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- 10-02-2016 16:42
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What of the people who are already well educated? There are plenty of rich kids who have never had to work a day in their lives, national service would be good for them.
This isn't about the armed forces, it's about the almost 200,000 young people who haven't been in work for at least a year. Some military discipline will be good for some of them, and general work experience will be good for others. -
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National Service is fine where a country is a peacemaker. Not in the case of UK. The government has just carried out a policy of slash and burn of the Military forces. How dare some numpty suggest they can fill the blanks with young people. We are not cannon fodder but you can bet your boots that's exactly what they/we would be used for. There is no history of compulsory military service in this country and so it should remain. I also think that people nowadays are less likely to be brainwashed by government propaganda when they're promoting their next military (mis)adventure and because Of this I do not believe mass conscription is a viable option. Do you want to lay your life on the line because your government wants to steal another country's resources under the guise of introducing democracy? I certainly don't, won't and when I have children I will not allow them to be used as a disposable item for a corrupt warmongering government.
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- 10-02-2016 16:43
Except none of these institutions are going to want National Service.
The military regards itself as a professional elite force. Everyone there volunteered and wants to be there and recieves specialist training. Same with the NHS, they're not going to have need of a whole bunch of untrained young people running around. Neither of the military or the NHS are going to want to devote resources to supervising a whole bunch of unskilled labourers they won't have enough jobs for, that don't necessarily want to be there and that will most likely begone in 12 months.
The administrative side of all these organisations deals with far too much sensitive information for the people on this scheme to be expected to deal with and it would cost a significant amount to ensure that they all weren't security risks. Plus the second something is mishandled (which it will be because unskilled labourer remember) you're going to get public outcry as to why all this sensitive information is being handled by people ill-equipt to deal with it. -
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- 10-02-2016 16:50
(Original post by DougallnDougall)
National Service is fine where a country is a peacemaker. Not in the case of UK. The government has just carried out a policy of slash and burn of the Military forces. How dare some numpty suggest they can fill the blanks with young people. We are not cannon fodder but you can bet your boots that's exactly what they/we would be used for. There is no history of compulsory military service in this country and so it should remain. I also think that people nowadays are less likely to be brainwashed by government propaganda when they're promoting their next military (mis)adventure and because Of this I do not believe mass conscription is a viable option. Do you want to lay your life on the line because your government wants to steal another country's resources under the guise of introducing democracy? I certainly don't, won't and when I have children I will not allow them to be used as a disposable item for a corrupt warmongering government.
I'm going pretend not to be offended at being called a numpty, especially by someone who stated that we have no history of compulsory military service. But at any rate, what you've written is utterly irrelevant as you've most likely not read the actual petition.
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- 10-02-2016 16:53
Good idea it's about time something like this is introduced.
Although I do support the idea wouldn't be good to train them in a trade like plumbing, brick laying , construction etc this will give them extra useful skills that they can use in the future -
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(Original post by Gwilym101)
Except none of these institutions are going to want National Service.
The military regards itself as a professional elite force. Everyone there volunteered and wants to be there and recieves specialist training. Same with the NHS, they're not going to have need of a whole bunch of untrained young people running around. Neither of the military or the NHS are going to want to devote resources to supervising a whole bunch of unskilled labourers they won't have enough jobs for, that don't necessarily want to be there and that will most likely begone in 12 months.
The administrative side of all these organisations deals with far too much sensitive information for the people on this scheme to be expected to deal with and it would cost a significant amount to ensure that they all weren't security risks. Plus the second something is mishandled (which it will be because unskilled labourer remember) you're going to get public outcry as to why all this sensitive information is being handled by people ill-equipt to deal with it.
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- 10-02-2016 16:59
(Original post by DougallnDougall)
National Service is fine where a country is a peacemaker. Not in the case of UK. The government has just carried out a policy of slash and burn of the Military forces. How dare some numpty suggest they can fill the blanks with young people. We are not cannon fodder but you can bet your boots that's exactly what they/we would be used for. There is no history of compulsory military service in this country and so it should remain. I also think that people nowadays are less likely to be brainwashed by government propaganda when they're promoting their next military (mis)adventure and because Of this I do not believe mass conscription is a viable option. Do you want to lay your life on the line because your government wants to steal another country's resources under the guise of introducing democracy? I certainly don't, won't and when I have children I will not allow them to be used as a disposable item for a corrupt warmongering government. -
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- 10-02-2016 17:01
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Good idea it's about time something like this is introduced.
Although I do support the idea wouldn't be good to train them in a trade like plumbing, brick laying , construction etc this will give them extra useful skills that they can use in the future -
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- 10-02-2016 17:04
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Having read the budget, it seems that there's going to be a lot of house building 100,000 a year. These young people could have a very large hand in this. -
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- 10-02-2016 17:07
just no
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- 10-02-2016 17:11
(Original post by Lime-man)
Some military discipline would do plenty of good for plenty of people, so nope.
You have a tired, clichéd, ignorant and completely out of date idea of what the military is. You've watched too much Bad Lads Army and Full Metal Jacket and think it represents reality.
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- 10-02-2016 17:14
(Original post by Lime-man)
Having read the budget, it seems that there's going to be a lot of house building 100,000 a year. These young people could have a very large hand in this.
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