Teens could lose bank accounts and driving licences for snubbing national service, Rishi Sunak says

Ironic, they want to look at how European countries do things to encourage National Service… I thought we didn’t like how Europe did things?

I’m beginning to think Rishi has bet on the Tories losing the election.

I’m just grateful to him we have a relatively short election campaign period, and we can all be put out of our misery of listening to constant bollox soon.

This is *the* central policy of his campaign, yet he has no idea as to how it would actually work.

He’s just making it up as he goes along.

He has no idea how he’d do this, and hasn’t bothered to figure it out, and it really doesn’t matter, because it’s a moot point. He’s not getting elected.

I don’t have much of an opinion on national service. I’m a reservist myself and enjoy the armed forces. My main thought though is why can’t we use more carrot then stick? Offer free tuition? Have them train as reservists whilst receiving a free degree in return for a number of years regular or reserve commitment post graduation?

Would rather lose my licence than my life shove your national service up ya posh toffy arse

To be fair, he didn’t mention bank accounts. Fiona Bruce did. By “access to finance” I assume he meant loans etc. There are so many legitimate bases upon which to criticise the Tories, without us having to invent things.

Oh no, I’m sure Teenagers will be devastated to lose their bank account with fuck all in it, and their car that they can’t afford the fucking petrol for. Why don’t you cut their caviar ration too you gormless fuckhole?

Don’t worry… it’s completely voluntary.

Oh, but you will lose access to banking, Lose your drivers license, Get a criminal conviction for yourself and your parents and be blocked from certain jobs if you don’t do this.

But yeah, it’s totally voluntary

Removing basic services you *need* to be able to do anything if you don’t sign up, isn’t this just slavery or something? What’s next? Making everyone get a license to buy food and then taking it away when they don’t comply with future demands?

Being on Nigel Farage as the LOTO at this rate. At least he’s not as openly corrupt as the Tories.

Last year Sunak made out debanking was a terrible thing. Now he wants to use it as a punishment

Maybe two years of putting their lives on hold to protect pensioners from gasping to death should count as service to their nation.
These predominantly tory voters have very short memories.

“Do it or else!”

If they doesn’t inspire patriotism…I don’t know what will… perhaps prison

I bet the people who support this policy go on the internet and say they are libertarians.

Let’s get youths scrubbing public toilets and picking up litter …empty bins…renovating council buildings and schools…maintaining public parts, planting trees. Would save a lot of council money and therefore our taxes. 💯

So they want to take a 2.5billion costing policy, while proclaiming we are in a crisis and they’re in severe debt that somehow needs to be paid by upping taxes and more.

To make the enforcement basically rejecting young people’s ability to earn money. Which would reduce the quantity of tax payers.

If teenagers unite against this sorta thing and outright refuse on a large enough scale, he really will put the country into a real economic crisis, my god I hope people don’t seriously vote for this and take a moment to consider how side ways this truely could go.

You will kill your own ever potiental of a pension voting In this. They will have to take into account a % of refusal. And removal of finance means they aren’t gonna work, homeless numbers will rise and the tax payers will shrink

I think he is an entitled winner who realises the Tories are a bunch of losers so he is enacting revenge in the best possible way.

You cannot explain why he would hold an early election at all besides the fact he wants to deal a huge self inflicted wound to the party.

Either way, Labour was going to win. It’s time for a party that isn’t about nasty finger pointing at disabled, poor and brown people whilst giving money in bulk to already very wealthy people.

So for refusing to do unpayed labour, 18 year olds will be dennied access to a bank account? For how long? What if they live on their own without parental support or even have to care for someone? How would this effect their ability to get payed and to pay rent or buy food? It would be very difficult to live in the modern world without a bank account. What happens to existing accounts, is the money seized? How would this effect going to uni, if unable to pay tuition fees they would be dennied access to further education and in many cases a decent future. The more i think about ut the wose it gets. This is both not thought through and incredibly inhumane, which really sums up the last 14 years of government.