• @[email protected]
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    51 year ago

    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.

      • @[email protected]
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        21 year ago

        The Royal family do a lot more for the country, more than a lot of people.

        But yea they get away with not doing a lot.

    • @[email protected]
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      131 year ago

      The best argument against national service?

      The armed forces, whom it would affect, absolutely hate it.

      • @[email protected]
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        21 year ago

        Its about the country though not just the armed forced. Also isn’t not just armed forces, you can read it in the article.

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          41 year ago

          Swap “armed forces” with “fire service”, “NHS” or “the police”, and the point is exactly the same.

    • HeartyBeast
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      131 year ago

      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.

      • @[email protected]
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        11 year ago

        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.

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          21 year ago

          Would you be up for being compelled to give up a day a month to do good works? Not volunteering, mind, compelled.

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              11 year ago

              So, if I gave you some volunteering contacts as links, would you commit to starting next month for me? Or would it take a threat of fines/court action?

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                11 year ago

                For you. No.

                If there was government organised work that everyone was partaking in I would as mentioned.

    • Baggins
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      41 year ago

      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 ;-)

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      51 year ago

      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.

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        Good job they have the option then as mentioned in the article that we are talking about. It’s almost like you agree with me.