U.K. has no plans for conscription – but future decisions will respond to ‘new reality’, says minister
https://news.sky.com/story/no-uk-plans-for-conscription-but-future-decisions-will-respond-to-new-reality-says-minister-13324894
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They’ll be able to send half the Civil Service soon, also apparently TV production people are looking for new work.
Here is the solution for all that complaining white working class boys are being left behind of course, send them to the front lines with 99% causality rates!
Wonderful, can’t wait to fight for prince Andrews right to nonce and keeping sunaks pool heated
No need for conscription until anyone is on the doorstep like Germany was. With Europe as a buffer it’s unlikely to be soon with Russia.
Yeee lets all go die in somebody elses war great idea
A nonsense story – what might the UK do if something unknown happened in the future – well the UK might respond in a certain way or not, but nobody knows because the something happening is unknown!
And clickbait because it is invariably designed to provoke the ‘youngsters won’t fight’ rage bait responses.
Ofc they have plans, tbh I would be more concerned if they didn’t have some plan ready given the unstable situation
Maybe sort out the utter state of recruiting for people who actively *want* to join the military in the UK first eh?
Define plans
Active plans they’re pursuing, absolutely not. But I’d like to think they do have a plan somewhere in the event it’s needed.
The business I work for has an emergency plan for all kinds of shit, including the event that our building is blown up with most our staff inside it lol.
That’s just a perfectly normal position for ANY country to have in normal times.
What’s the story supposed to be here?
Remember people that joining the military in the UK is fraught with danger, oh not while you’re in the military but when you leave and the government decides at 15 years later when you’ve got your family and life’s going sweet that they’re gonna persecute your ass !
If they could conscript they would but the problem is lack of man power to do it. You could fit all the armed forces in a football stadium and there is not enough police or prison spaces to deal with conscientious objectors.
This means cutting of benefits and a heavy recruitment drive in deprived areas. The future is not bright for our young as long as long as the only options we have to vote are war mongering messengers.
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Unfortunately I don’t think the white working class boys will be jumping in to fight for whatever this ‘country’ has become.
Well, as long as the DEI ensures equality on conscription.
It’ll set back feminism hundreds of years, if women don’t get conscripted too.
It’ll eradicate any equality argument, in society and the workplace and essentially show that every drive and initiative at work has been a fallacy.
I honestly don’t think we have the infrastructure to enforce it.
Conscription makes no real sense for the UK. There is no reasonably foreseeable situation in which a protracted ground war on British soil requiring conscription to create the required manpower is going to happen. If a major amphibious landing onto British soil happens, our military has already completely collapsed and we have lost, and the only remaining question is do we press the nuclear button. And I cannot see how we would tolerate conscription in order to send more people to die in a war on foreign soil.
In other word’s, if it kicks off every tom dick and mohamed will be conscripted.
I am curious what the rules of war are in the 21st century. For example would women be conscripted into the battlefields in equal numbers as men?
It’s sort of a given sending your son away to die on the battlefield but sending your daughter to the front line?
Obviously women were to some degree by working in factories and other roles in WW2.
Not trying to start anything, I’m genuinely curious what the rules would be now
There aren’t enough jails or bullets to handle the rejection to any attempted conscription in this country. Parliament would be burnt to the ground. .
I think they will find the young don’t want to go to war and the leaders will have to find another way to resolve issues.
Its 2025 we shouldn’t needs wars in these times.
We haven’t had conscription since the 60s, when the threat from Russia was vastly greater. There’s no chance of this.
Remember Bad Lads Army on the tv? I can’t see today’s youth surviving the first day.
get ready lads your going to die for the Zionist cause…
Edmund: You see, Baldrick, in order to prevent war in Europe, two superblocs developed: us, the French and the Russians on one side, and the Germans and Austro-Hungary on the other. The idea was to have two vast opposing armies, each acting as the other’s deterrent. That way there could never be a war.
Baldrick: But this is a sort of a war, isn’t it, sir?
Edmund: Yes, that’s right. You see, there was a tiny flaw in the plan.
George: What was that, sir?
Edmund: It was bollocks.
I find it all fascinating as a modern concept because I just don’t think it’d ever actually work in a modern world.
So say they come and chap my door and say “you’re getting picked” and first thing I do is drag it all out as long as I can because I don’t want to go be a drone target in the middle of nowhere. Eventually presumably I lose and I have to go because the laws are changed to force me. I do not give a fuck about white feathers that would not convince me.
Do I just stop having a job with an income? Like I presumably hope to come home sometime and then what? I’m bankrupt because the pay for conscription would be utter shit and we’ve lost our income to pay for anything. I can’t exactly see the government matching everyone’s pay £ for £ and saying a blanket “no bills will be paid” will last about 3 minutes before the companies who are expected to play their role say “no way” and fuck us over.
The world has moved to being run by corporations and consumption, get them to go and fight each other over who gets the ashes and the public can be left out of it.
Imagine conscription, it would end up like those videos coming out of Ukraine guys getting kidnapped off the local high street.
I would say the majority of young people in the UK have no interest in going into the military.