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Just throw kids in jail if they refuse to cooperate with being press-ganged into being your soldiers. Every other shitty conscription scheme does that. Why the bizarre invention of new punishments?
akshually sweetey, they get a choice between military service and forced, unpaid labor 
(i am not joking)
Rishi out here speedrunning losing an election so he can go hunt Belarusian children with Peter Thiel
That sounds pretty totalitarian. Someone should go in there and drop some freedom and democracy on them...
for anyone missing context: the UK had a "national service" program in the early 60's, where all 18 year olds had to choose between military service and local community service (with most choosing the latter)
the conservative party's plan is to bring this program back for all genders, and this is how they're considering enforcing it
most british oldheads support it, but young people are understandably pretty pissed, seeing it's unpaid labor that takes time and energy from work/school they need to survive in a failing economy. (community service will require one weekend per month for a full year)
Labour figures also privately accused the Tories of making 18-year-olds fix the problems the government had created, by boosting numbers in the military, helping the NHS and repairing infrastructure.
Oh, this will be really bad when Rishi Sunak is in a position to legislate after the next election. I sure hope the Tories don't use the significant leverage they will have to push for this.
truss the plan
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