UK XI: Please Sir... May I Have Some More?

[fishbowlhead]

Whenever I hear about national service (the current government in Italy is clamoring the same thing), I wonder if the armed forces are actually want this and have enough money to support that.
Not to mention what cadets would actually do duirng their time. I was in the last year to be forced into national service but was left out due to blood in the kidneys (and, no, three independent tests highlighted no blood in my kidneys), one of my friends was drafted and basically spent a year doing nothing in the barracks: you can't have cadets marching because they will get tired (actual order coming from high command, no joke), not enough rifles or ammo for the firing range, uniforms recycled from previous years...due to my work I often interact with air force personnel and all career officers were happy about not having to spend money on 18 years old that would basically live at their expenses for a year.

Where you from Briareos?

[briareos_kerensky]

Italy.

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https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/26/no-one-going-to-jail-for-avoiding-uk-national-service-says-cleverly

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Farage being Farage.

Absolute scum.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/26/nigel-farage-under-fire-said-muslims-not-share-british-values

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They're desperate to cling on to those silver haired votes

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https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2024/may/28/tories-triple-lock-plus-planned-tax-cut-pensioners-labour-rishi-sunak-general-election?page=with:block-6655c4678f082cc3ef066c66#block-6655c4678f082cc3ef066c66

Rumbles that Labour has had the outcome of Diane Abbot's review since December 2023 and has held back on purpose which has set Momentum off.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2024/may/28/tories-triple-lock-plus-planned-tax-cut-pensioners-labour-rishi-sunak-general-election?page=with:block-6655b0298f08b9b585c77ad7#block-6655b0298f08b9b585c77ad7

Farage confirms that Reform UK has funding issues

[egparadigm]

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They're desperate to cling on to those silver haired votes

Those people look overjoyed. A more realistic version would be a pensioner who’s a bit miffed and two starving children.

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Those are children the old person has bought with their extra pension money to use to suck the youth from

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https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/28/labour-pledges-to-clear-nhs-waiting-list-backlog-in-england-in-five-years

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Diane Abbott is reported to have had the Labour Whip restored but her future as an MP is unclear - rumours abound that the whip was restored in exchange for her standing down as a Labour MP but this hasn't been confirmed and she herself hasn't commented yet. All this despite the supposed "investigation" into her remarks being completed six months ago.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-69040616

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https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/may/29/royal-mail-owner-agrees-to-takeover-by-czech-billionaire

https://www.theguardian.com/education/article/2024/may/28/rishi-sunak-promises-to-create-100000-high-skilled-apprenticeships-a-year

Radio host Iain Dale quits to run as candidate in general election (msn.com)
I can appreciate the potential intent but nothing good is going to come to anyone in the Tory party in the next few years

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-politics-69071603

Diane Abbott confirms that she has been barred from representing Labour at the General Election

[QualityChimp]

I'm particularly amused at the promises being made by all parties on the campaign trail.

[Lebowski]

I'm particularly amused at the promises being made by all parties on the campaign trail.

it seems Sunak thinks bribing silver haired voters is the way to win

"Do you remember the war it was great wasn't it? We're going to send a load more 18-year-olds off to die, also have some more pension money, we can't afford it, but you will be dead soon and its your grandkids that will have to worry about that"

[fishbowlhead]

it seems Sunak thinks bribing silver haired voters is the way to win

"Do you remember the war it was great wasn't it? We're going to send a load more 18-year-olds off to die, also have some more pension money, we can't afford it, but you will be dead soon and its your grandkids that will have to worry about that"

Don’t worry they will just tax businesses more to pay for it all, then when most the country has gone bankrupt it won’t matter, because all the new gen has been sent off to war, so they won’t need jobs anyway.

Simples.

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https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2024/may/29/general-election-diane-abbott-rishi-sunak-keir-starmer-angela-rayner-uk-politics-live?page=with:block-6657026f8f08829b4c135a65#block-6657026f8f08829b4c135a65

Junior Doctors will strike again in the days leading up to the election

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2024/may/29/general-election-diane-abbott-rishi-sunak-keir-starmer-angela-rayner-uk-politics-live?page=with:block-6656f8288f08829b4c1359ee#block-6656f8288f08829b4c1359ee

Tories try to water down backlash as Rayner is cleared by the police

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2024/may/29/general-election-diane-abbott-rishi-sunak-keir-starmer-angela-rayner-uk-politics-live?page=with:block-6656f1b78f08829b4c1359c4#block-6656f1b78f08829b4c1359c4

Abbot has posted saying that she is dismayed at several reports that she has been barred from running as a Labour MP in the election... even though she was the one who said it