Would be a good idea if the country was worth fighting for.

Who wants to fight for criminals

As a 10 year veteran "NO" send your sons and daughters by force to serve a country that neglects them, a society thats despises them, a government that forgets them. Stay in school kids

Who wants to fight for a country what's made it a crime to be english.

"How to lose an election in 30 seconds" by Rishi Sunak. Doing the country a favor by further showing why people shouldn't vote for the tories.

How are they going to get Muslims to enrol. 😂 🇬🇧

We haven't needed national service for decades. All we have ever needed is prosperous jobs and opportunity without bias, identity politics and toxic policies.......yet we have had those things in abundance the last decade. Almost like its been by design.

"serve the war machine"

How many indigenous people would even want to serve a country that puts its own people last. Not forgetting we are being invaded daily from France

Nobody fights for Lying criminals.

Just when you thought the little runt couldn't make himself look even more ridiculous....

Nobody wasn’t war, everyone wants to live a good life ffs

There's an irony here that National service is a popular idea with older voters who themselves have never done it. You'd have to be 85 years old to have done national service.

This Sunak destroyed the UK

If this will be mandatory will it include the Sunak kids😂

All about CONTROL!!!!

How can you bring back national service if it’s not mandatory and if you can just refuse to do it. What a joke

Zelensky says "we need more man power" Then all of a sudden Rishi calks for national service Put two and two together.

They cant even get them to go to work let alone do national service ,its a joke

Will never happen cos that Kn ob Sunak is finished. Bye Bye Rishi

Andrew Bridgen MP has already revealed in a podcast the reason why a snap election and national service has surfaced

Paraphrasing: "A 16 year old is too uninformed to vote". The arrogance and ignorance. Old enough to fight in the army, old enough to work and pay taxes, but not mature enough to vote? Talking about "Bonkers".

It's rubbish the UK military need to remain a professional force who are paid well to remain in. What next Dads Army?

muslims will be at the front ready to join and fight for the country they love so much... the free Palestine protest gives you plenty of hope that many recruits are just waiting to sign up.. .

lets sort mental health care out first. a bunch of unstable young adults thrown into war sounds stupid.

Sunak trying to play the fear factor again, This is what all this is about.

People who are not at the conscription age should not decide about conscription, which conveniently doesn't affect their lives, careers and choices in life. I had to do conscription in my country, it took 2 years out of my young life. It's not only the service time, but you prepare your life in the months before and can't follow your dreams yet. If you want to study afterwards, depending on when you are relieved, you might have to wait another few months before your new study starts, as it was in my case.

Under which flag Brits army will fight : Union Jack or Rainbow ?

This isn't a policy announcement to win an election. This is a policy announcement to keep pensioners (who didn't do national service themselves) voting Tory instead of drifting off to vote Reform. It will probably work.

The Nordic states have strict Labour laws banning such things as zero hour also offshoring profits in Norways case and a centre left managed economy with well funded services + a border with Russia.

The National Service does not work very well in Finland. Male Finns are expected to carry out a duration in the military that can last for 6 months to on year. Female Finns are totally voluntary. A big discussion started a few years back where the National Anti-Discrimination Office leader publicly stated she (a useless politician) was opposed to women also having to do national service, especially because she was against her daughter having to go to the army. The people who do their service state that the boredom is awful, and they are constantly waiting for some activity. The regular army who are tasked with training those who appear for their service also find the task boring and they are relatively uninterested in actually carrying out the tasks. An example of this is the lack of actual proper equipment. For example, a person measuring 2.14 metres tall stood at the clothing and bedding service point. He eas towering above the hole in the wall and was given clothing and bedding which when he put on he found it was several sizes too small. When he went back to the hole in the wall, the guy giving oit the stuff looked up at him and said "Why didn't you tell me you are above average size?" The guy also had to run around the forest in Wellington Boots, which are standard military issue (have you tried running in Wellington Boots? His boots were 3 sizes too small because they did not have his size in boots. Also, the are not given waterproof sleeping bags, instead they are given old blankets, and his blanket was too small which meant either his uor lower half was cold. Persons who refuse their national service, which is nowadays a very high percentage and perfectly acceptable in today's society in Finland (not before), are then given one year of public service in the form of, e.g. hospital duties, university duties, etc. At first, one thinks this is good retribution, however, these people receive 'cigarette money" as it is termed in Finkand, i.e. peanuts, which means hospitals, universities, etc. get bery cheap labour for a year, and then new people for the consecutive years, which results in a seriously distorted job market. Equally, young men who serve for, e.g. one year, are paid peanuts and pay no taxes, whereas if they were in the normal job market being paid normal pay and paying taxes and using market services, etc. the result on the economy is positive. National Service may have been am option in the pre 1970s, but nowadays it is outdated, negative to the economy, mentsl illness creating, discriminatory (women will also have to serve?), and of little interest to regular army personnel who would be tasked with training the NS personnel.

The final nail on the coffin of a dinosaur party that is on it's way of being ousted in the elections.

Stupid idea. It would cost a fortune and meet massive resistance. The armed services have said, repeatedly, they don't want it.

call it welfare to work unpaid

Will they jail Republicans in Northern Ireland who refuse to join the army? Community cohesion?

I believe my career in the Royal Marines lifted me out of my poor working class childhood and provided the strength of character to enable me to be successful in life.

I imagine many dads are getting prepared to take a stand if need be.

Rishi on about national service, he wouldn't be on the front lines fighting for this country. He'd be busy swanning about like he's the hero

I wouldn't trust a man who can't afford a razor despite earning a fortune and wearing posh suits that are not big enough for him...

They want fodder for the front line.

I have to say, it works quite well for Switzerland, and they're a neutral country, with more guns per capita than the USA

Why not call it "slave labour" as you don't want to pay them to do civil services !

There are plenty of over 16 year olds who don't have a clue but still have the right to vote.

Are politicians completely out of touch?? It's not a good thing at all taking away your citizenship personal choice I'm truly baffled, are they insane??

Rishi if you want to do something impressive just resign NOW. Hand the keys to No.10 over to Richard Tice. Arrange for him to meet the King. And confess to the public that you were in the wrong job. No laughter please.

In other words the tax payer now has to discipline the new generations because their parents couldnt

Would this National Service also be for women, trans genders, amputees, ethnic religious abstainers, farmers, BLM, just stop oil protesters, MP's college graduate off-spring, smokers, pro Palestinians, dinghy boat people, dual nationality Europeans and prison miscreants (lawyers) - it would have to be a fair agenda - as it must be seen to be a diverse choice system?

Good idea! Get them ready to fight the boat people.

No way !

Who are we fighting exactly and when and why, all a joke

VOTE REFORM

Who is earning money off war it's not anybody who pays for it in tax😂😂

The guy is absolutely detached from reality.

Volunteer your child for the upcoming meat grinder with Russia?

I can’t wait to see all the reactions once Labour have been in power for a while. People say it can’t be any worse. I promise not to say I told you so.

If Israel has a right to defend itself so has Russia.

Wants our kids to go wave the national flag in Russia but you can't wave it in London.

Sunak needs to go Keir can't be trusted he's a liar

Get sunkak out

Lets hope these two get called up first.

Well, maybe it's a good idea to get young men into the military for about a year. It may give them some responsibility and sense of patriotism , instead of not knowing whether they are male or female.😮 It may give them a backbone. Toughen them up.

Bonkers is a polite word for this!

Don't panic corporal sunak

The tory's are trying to fix a mess they created catch the horse when its bolted these people are clueless😅

Wheres talk tv gone now..,we can't seem to get it on our TV screens anymore

Scrap that make all 14 to 18 year olds do the Duke of Edinburgh awards build up team work and skills and the systems are all ready in place

Defend our borders first Sunak.

They do not know whats going on at 16 years old? But at 18 years old its ok to conscript them into the armed forces!

I will not comply Not me or mine will fight for Britainstan all these people saying yes send your kids and also go yourself

Creating soldiers to fight against Russia thats why asked king charlie for earlier election and they say riyal family not involved in politics!

I done 2 years national service 1957/59 and it was great time of my life, it didn't do me any harm, some of to-days 18 year old's can't wipe there own ARSEnal.

Where s the 2 .5 billion coming from to fund this, bankrupt councils and NHS 3 million using food banks , where's the money for these needs.

The Nordic countries also have for higher tax rates and public spending: expecting the same results from national service in the UK is unrealistic

you carnt take away everybodys gun and weapons,,them expect they to fight for the government

‘Not a bad idea’ 🤡🤡🤡

Fight for British Pirates😢😢😮

Why do you need an amy when we have a nuclear deterrent. Beside tanks do not like missiles.

This would have been a great idea in 1995 when we had homogeneous demographics

Is this perhaps because for years kids have had to go to university, take on debt, because there were no jobs for them in the past, Took millions off the unemployment figures for years. Bubble has burst, there are still no jobs for most when they get a degree. Conscription is just another way to keep unemployment down.

If its planned properly then 2 or 3 years in the military would not be a bad thing however due to this country's attitude towards its working class by governments that dont care then it wont work. I spent 5 years in the Royal Navy and had a great time and was proud to wear the uniform, but these days i would not do it again because of what this country as become

There is no country,it has been replaced. The country as it was ,was filled with a united values, this land is now filled with people of different values. Try telling a community where 80% don't work for sudo religious reasons.

Seems they have a street fight to do first.

no 16 yer old is political they haven't lived in the UK long enough to understand what it takes to pay bills ,work etc. thay are the children that need protection .

3:08 '...these wars tend to go on and use up a lot more resources....' For 'resources' read' young men.'

It's against their human rights to be called up

I think Rishi wants to make absolutely sure the Tories don't get elected. He's either got something better lined up or more likely the mess is so great he wants to off load the job ASAP.

18yrs old and older? Sorry I haven’t read into this enough

So maybe we give 16 year olds the right to vote and actually teach them about politics, taxation, finances etc so they are actually ready for life instead of the way we leave almost everybody unprepared through an inadequate education system that places 0 importance on actual life skills.

In the 50's Judges gave criminals a choice, either join one of the 3 services or go to jail, in 83 we were offered the choice of conscripts, we absolutely rejected this idea, and why should the armed forces be saddled with the upbringing of unruly kids who have no respect for authority or anyone other than themselves, or the dregs of society. It is not the Armed forces responsibility to raise Unruly kids because the parents can not and have failed or even criminals, we are a Voluteer force and one volunteer is much better than 10 pressed men, and would any of you walk into a hostile zone with a conscript of this nature not knowing if he/she will stand with you or tuck tail and run?? And a Reminder we went almost 8000 miles(Falklands) and 900 mostly conscripts surrendered to 90 of our Para's. We only want people who WANT to serve and be part of our forces, That's what makes us one of the best respected forces on this planet. And successive governments have totally disrespected exactly what they have at their fingertips, We have always been there for our country and always will our oath of alliegence dies with us, but governments need to show us some goddam respect and start supplying us with what we need to do the job!!!

Who would want to fight for the uk when rishi anialates young people

Well as the Tories got rid of 40% of our equipment and our combined military forces in 2010 was 350 thousand whats it now 70 thousand because rishi sunak has consistently pulled funding from everything

Fancie resigning early that will put your 20% down to 15%

National service that is voluntarily Mandatory 😂 It'll never happen 😂🤣😂

The Germans did not call it 'conscription', they called it 'Wehrpflicht' (duty to defend). This was abolished many years ago, as it was, after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the resulting collapse of the Soviet Union, no longer seen as necessary and it was also horrendously expensive. It's not just the pay for each soldier, but you need an entire military infrastructure: Accommodation, food, administration, medical services, etc, etc etc. You also need to provide uniforms and military hardware. Then you need to make sure that no individual with sinister intend will join. You wouldn't want to give a rifle with life ammo to anyone who supports any extremist group, would you? To reinstate any form of obligatory military, or otherwise, conscription-like entity would not only cost a fortune, but oodles of planning and the necessary personnel, but Mr Sunak does it all via TikTok 🙂

Sunak your gone .

This is Sunak basically saying these kids need a kick up their backsides. Who the hell does he think he is forcing kids to do unpaid work.And more or less 'Shanghaiing' them into the armed forces. Sooner the voters vote him out the better. Insulting the younger generation for a few votes. Disgrace.

They should have a national service, training youngsters how to get off of their arses, rather that going to Uni to do pointless degrees for jobs that don't exist! In the real world we call those apprenticeships!

Oh yeah your going to get people to fight for this country your joking yourselves

The concept of National Service has to be thought through properly! Where is the money to come from to finance the training, accommodation, weapons etc., when the military budget has been cut year after year! Increase proposed to 2.5% of GDP over the next 5 or 6 years, is derisory and completely inadequate, even discounting the possibility of National Service.

All the middle classes claiming it bonkers because they live in a secure bubble. Look outside that bubble identify the anti social behaviour identity the disadvantage kids who have no security and stability at home they desperately need guidance and direction. This opportunity could potentially stop another drifter joining gangs selling drugs to more middle classes and ending up dead. Giving opportunity to young people who might not want to go to university or college is a must they will gain much needed confidence motivation and support new skills.