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Originally Posted by Doug

Not sure about all this, it’s the most vulnerable that lose out, i.e. kids, elderly relatives etc. Reduce or remove benefits form those that can work but chose not too, on the other hand how many would like to work but can’t get a job because of immigration policies operated by the HM Government.

Some Answers:

3 years National Services – 16 to 25 year olds.

5 years National Services (Front Line) – 16 to 35 year old Criminals.

End of the right to work for unqualified Immigrant workers irrespective of country of Origin.

Introduce National Works Projects for “Fit and Able” unemployed with skill building included.

It’s all very well glibly advocating National Service as the panacea for youngsters’ wayward ways but think on this.

This country can’t afford to pay our regular troops a wage that is commensurate with their work so there is no chance of any form of National Service.

As for sending criminals, our armed forces do not want criminals in their midst. In any case one volunteer makes a better soldier, sailor or airman than ten pressed men.

Apart from that our forces need men and woman who are capable of handing complex and expensive machinery who can be relied upon to do their job without hesitation. The days of canon fodder on the front line are over.

Just remember this – you can take a horse to water but you cannot make it drink.

As an employer, would you give a hardened criminal a job? No? Then don’t foist them on the cream of the fighting forces of the world.