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Ruling Conservative Party says it will bring back national service if it wins the July 4 general election.

Eighteen-year-olds will have to perform a mandatory national service if the Conservative Party is voted back to power in the United Kingdom’s July 4 election, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has announced.

The prime minister’s plan would entail young people being given a choice between a full-time placement in the armed forces for 12 months or spending one weekend a month for a year volunteering in their community, the party said.

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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

Will be unpopular among the 18-35 year old voters, who are historically the lowest turnout demographic, and will actually have to shoulder the burden.

This sort of thing seems like exactly the sort of thing that would spur that demographic to come out and vote. Self-interest is a powerful thing.

[-] bitwaba@lemmy.world 0 points 7 months ago

Yeah, it does, and yet hardly any young voters showed up to the polls when the torries wanted to flush the kids futures down the toilet with the Brexit vote. So they've got lots of historical data to suggest young voters don't matter.

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