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Conservatives plan to bring back mandatory national service [View all]
Fuck me, I didn't see this coming.
It said 18-year-olds would have a choice of either joining the military full-time, or volunteering one weekend every month carrying out a community service.
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The cost is expected to be around £2.5bn per year.
Under the plans, young people could choose a full-time, 12-month placement in the armed forces or UK cyber defence, learning about logistics, cyber security, procurement or civil response operations.
Their other option would be to volunteer one weekend per month - or 25 days per year - in their community with organisations such as fire, police and the NHS.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpddxy9r4mdo
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The cost is expected to be around £2.5bn per year.
Under the plans, young people could choose a full-time, 12-month placement in the armed forces or UK cyber defence, learning about logistics, cyber security, procurement or civil response operations.
Their other option would be to volunteer one weekend per month - or 25 days per year - in their community with organisations such as fire, police and the NHS.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpddxy9r4mdo
I think they just said "up to 30,000" in the armed forces on TV news, which would be about 1 in 20. So basically this would be enforced volunteering.
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