The benefits of National Service?

Ambitious1999

I think that National Service is what a lot of young people need to develop a sense of belonging in society. It will most significantly benefit those who spent their secondary education languishing in grammar schools and private schools and became isolated from the majority of working class. National service will bring everyone together irrespective of class from the poor kids that come from broken homes in rough estates to the privileged grammar / private school recluse. All wearing same uniform and shaven hair. It will toughen them up. Take away sense of entitlement. They will have to work together and be on the same level. It’s a life skill they will keep all their lives, not to look down on the less fortunate as they were at the same level during their national service.
What’s your thoughts?

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Ajhdhd

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Original post by Ambitious1999

I think that National Service is what a lot of young people need to develop a sense of belonging in society. It will most significantly benefit those who spent their secondary education languishing in grammar schools and private schools and became isolated from the majority of working class. National service will bring everyone together irrespective of class from the poor kids that come from broken homes in rough estates to the privileged grammar / private school recluse. All wearing same uniform and shaven hair. It will toughen them up. Take away sense of entitlement. They will have to work together and be on the same level. It’s a life skill they will keep all their lives, not to look down on the less fortunate as they were at the same level during their national service.
What’s your thoughts?

As someone who does a level politics it's hard not to see it as a desperate ploy to get the grey vote, because ultimately they've put the youth off.

I see the intention but the issue is always going to be that it looks great, until it's your kid who has to be sent off. I don't want to do it. My friends don't want to do it. Yes there's a lot of youth on the wrong path who could potentially be 'put right' but why are we all getting dragged into it? Maybe they should just consider using it as a sentence for youth in prisons, if that's the kind of impact they're trying to make.

I don't think it would do anything for the rich poor divide. This is a deeper issue and sending them off together doesn't mean they'll mesh together.

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Gazpacho.

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What the British military, emergency services, and charities really need right now is a bunch of sullen teenagers who really don't want to be there.

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McGinger

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"Grant Shapps said the military aspect of the plan will see 18-year-olds take placements in the armed forces for just 25 days per year - not the year of full-time service initially promised."
Tories U-turn on national service plans a day after Rishi Sunak’s manifesto launch | The Independent

Badly thought out - and now in shreds.

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