Cool. There are a lot of people in the UK that have no interest in doing anything for the UK. Will be good to make people more British.
There some long running families that contribute to defence, police or firefighting. Then there are others that have never contributed and just take.
A bit rude to talk about the royals like that when the Queen has just died.
I contribute plenty. I volunteer for several charities including AgeUK and a local food bank and I give blood.
Want to make it mandatory? piss off.
Good for you.
A lot of people aren’t like you and I think the government should be doing more to get more out of the people. Things like happiness and wellbeing and safety is correlated with community and helping others.
Lots of this country has really gone to shit and could do with going to back to some of the ways in the past life was different.
Would you be up for being compelled to give up a day a month to do good works? Not volunteering, mind, compelled.
The best argument against national service?
The armed forces, whom it would affect, absolutely hate it.
Its about the country though not just the armed forced. Also isn’t not just armed forces, you can read it in the article.
Everyone contributes to society by paying tax. Ordering people to do a specific job is not cool.
Not everyone contributes tax and not everyone contributes more than they get out. In fact most don’t. There is more to society than just tax and people don’t contribute to the UK.
Also it isn’t about making people do a specific job. It’s in the article.
Have you ever bought luxury goods such as most food or clothes? Well then, you paid VAT. I’d love to hear what stats you’re pulling out of your arse that say otherwise!
I’d rather my kids were taught to benefit the whole of humanity rather than be trained as a tool for one political parties ideologies.
Unfortunately most people only see the military side of it (as per most of the comments on here), but it’s only one of the options. Getting people involved isn’t necessarily a bad thing. I wouldn’t mind spending a weekend a month doing cyber defence or learning about logistics, but at 67 am probably a bit old for that. Although I have just completed a 3 month cyber security course ;-)
