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Right @Toonpack, time to grab your rifle.

I'm 1000% against any form of "mandatory voluntary" service, a complete oxymoron. Fuck that, it's hard enough being a kid anyway. The Tories hate young people.

Some people will find the cloud in any silver lining. How about the fact that in a single stroke we can solve the nation’s social care problem? Who needs awful foreigners coming in to do the job when little Callum can call round once a month to nick Ethel’s pension money?

Sunak has just released a TikTok video saying that the volunteer teenagers could deliver prescriptions to the elderly in the community. Are we giving them CRB checks first or are they free to supplement their free labour by selling on the Morphine and wobbly eggs they're delivering It's so obvious they hadn't thought any of this through before 3 days ago!

I fucking despise Leeds, glad the cunts got beat and hope they get fucked on ffp.

They can call the scheme "Don't care in the community".

You cant make schemes like this mandatory though, a quick walk through Meadowell will tell you why. A lot of kids in that bracket need proper paid jobs to help them get through university. When I worked in a supermarket there were loads of kids saving their money for Uni. It's the poorer middle class and working class kids who will take the hit here, the Eton lot will be okay. This is as much bollocks as Cameron's big society. I'd love to be in a position to do voluntary work. But nowadays everybody needs to graft like fuck just to keep a roof over their heads. I can't tell you how angry I am at how the Tories have treated the younger generation. Robbed them of experiencing Europe. Taxed them at a marginal rate of over 50% when they graduate. Often made it impossible for them to own homes or even have kids of their own. And now this. Fuck you you tory cunts, the reckoning is coming.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-13461109/Everton-Newcastle-Yankuba-Minteh-Arne-Slot-Feyenoord-Michael-Olise.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=social-twitter_dailymailsport If Olise really has a £45m release clause then he needs to be near the top of our list for transfers this summer. Perfect Almiron replacement and more important than dropping £30mil on a new keeper. I suspect Man U and Chelsea will be offering him £200k+ per though

I barely do the job I’m paid to do now. Can you imagine how tough it’s going to be to get a group of completely unmotivated teenagers to do anything?

Aye, if it was thought out and implemented by sensible adults not motivated by profit or political grandstanding, I’ve thought for a long while that it would be a positive thing. So many , currently absent, community projects could benefit hugely from the investment and participation. For example, community kitchens, if done right, could help address the massive amount of food poverty we have today, and perhaps remove the attached stigma that goes with it. Basic cookery classes, breakfast clubs, lunch clubs etc. Parks and nature reserves, beach wardens, sports coaching/summer classes etc, community libraries. There’s loads of things it could be a very positive influence for, without feeling like some kind of penal sentence. The point being, only things which contribute to enrichment of communities should be able to recruit National Service intakes. Sending spotty youths off to some Army camp for a year will do fuck all for them or their local community imo.

The latter is probably coming later in the campaign. Wasn’t they’d talk a year or so ago they were going to bring it in purely to mean they’d no longer be signed up to the European Convention on Human Rights?

Decent article that. I actually come into contact with a lot of these people through work. My role, amongst other things, involves liaising with trade unions. The biggest one is split into 3 factions, all ‘leftist’ with the most moderate one still being pretty left wing. They’re fucking obsessed with stuff like Gaza, encouraging members to get involved with stuff that probably breeches the civil service code. I’m not against the right to protest etc m, as you know, but I do wonder where their priorities are. This particular union represents literally tens of thousands of members who are working on the national minimum wage. Surely if you get involved with things like this and politics more generally on the left then improving people’s lives and making them better off is way more important than anything else. Especially above things you can’t influence. To give another example, their latest campaign is about trying to get a four day week trialled. I’ve got no idea where this has even come from but they’ve got zero chance of bringing it about and people don’t even want it. The civil service must have about as good a set of flexible working arrangements as you can get. Then more broadly speaking you have cunts like Owen Jones trying to divert Labour votes to independents and greens. At this time with this fucking Tory government? Also being totally disingenuous because the fptp system just means it’s only helping more Tory MPs retain their seats.

I bet it was a toss up between national service or the death penalty btw.

Clearly just desperation at this point. I bet this was never in the agenda but it’s going so badly they’re just making it up as they go along

I haven't and I'm inclined not to because being preached at by the Guardian is one of the surefire ways to guarantee that I don't vote Labour.

Sad. I’m surprised their aren’t more people from the single sports (golf, tennis etc ) that struggle with mental health. It must be brutal continually travelling around, constantly staying in hotels etc away from their families.

8 "homegrown". - 4 must be from our academy (Miley, Longstaff, Anderson, White) and have played 36 consecutive months between the ages of 15-21 - 4 from another English clubs academy (Barnes, Trippier, Wilson, Murphy, Pope, Tino, Hall, Gordon etc) Miley doesn't count under the 36month rule yet but will by next season. Gillespie never counted apparently as he left the academy at 16 to go to Carlisle.

What a cunt he is. Fucking embarrassing

It's nice when real football fans get to see their team win. Soooooo good.

When the odds are stacked against them.

Klopp & Pep to leave at the same time?

An elderly Italian man who lived on the outskirts of Rimini, Italy, went to the local church for confession. When the priest slid open the panel in the confessional, the man said: "Father. During World War II, a beautiful woman from our neighbourhood knocked urgently on my door and asked me to hide her from the Nazis. So I hid her in my attic. The priest replied: "That was a wonderful thing you did, and you have no need to confess that." "There is more to tell, Father. She started to repay me with certain favours. This happened several times a week, and sometimes twice on Sundays." The priest said, "That was a long time ago and by doing what you did, you placed the two of you in great danger, but two people under those circumstances can easily succumb to the weakness of the flesh. However, if you are truly sorry for your actions, you are indeed forgiven." "Thank you, Father. That's a great load off my mind. I do have one more question." "And what is that?" asked the priest. "Should I tell her the war is over?'

Southampton might buy Fraser now they're back in the Premier league ?

I hate Leeds , but fucking howay you yorkshire cunts just so I dont have to hear that fucking awful song next season

Fell down the Twitter rabbit hole on it last night. The use of "helping vulnerable people" as a justification got right on my tits. Has anyone asked these vulnerable people if the would want a stream of different kids coming and going from the main place they feel comfortable and safe?

New Labour didn't do much in the first term either. Labour need a decade to make a really positive change.

According to Wiki, her English mam helped ABBA translate the lyrics for the album Waterloo from Swedish to English. She’s on the cover of their next album, to the left of Benny Speaking of actresses called Rebecca who we “admire”…Rebecca Hall. Giddup!

Yeah, it must be pretty brutal unless you’re a top player with lots of sponsors etc. Even things like getting injured for 3 months and losing your income, ranking points etc. must put enormous amounts of pressure on people.

I’ve not thought too deeply on the subject tbh, but the mandatory part could even be addressed by having it as an option in the now-mandatory education until 18yrs old. If someone wants to leave education at 16, 12 months of participation in a branch of service of their choice at that age could be a positive way in to the world of employment, whilst giving them a chance to try something off their normal radar, and they get to be independent at 17, a year earlier than those that choose to stay in education. Also, it’s worth remembering that the National Service of old wasn’t a volunteer scheme- people were paid for their time in whatever they did. Any new version must also be paid work for the participants- you could even include some basics lessons on personal finances management. Anyway, the Tories can fuck off as I’ve put more thought in to these few posts than they have with their announcement.

I’ve read it, whilst I don’t doubt what she presents and that the “popular” left wing eg Owen Jones et al are fuckin twats it is very difficult at this point to see any hope for real change with a Starmer government. Am actually keenly anticipating the details of the Labour manifesto to see if they’re going to come up with anything innovative or original with mass appeal. I won’t be holding my breath mind… Starmer will be a huge upgrade decency wise on anything Tory but he’s got to try to properly change things….

I'd agree with this too, along with an educational focus on civics in school - maybe even tying the two things together somehow. But also agree that this is just desperation from the Tories.

I’m not opposed to the idea of a modernised form of national service* tbh, but this is clearly just a desperate vomit of nonsense from a party in its death throes. * I’d say that military service doesn’t/shouldnt even need to be a part of it- 12 months of some form of community based work. Sports coaching, library work, grounds and maintenance, community catering work, conservation and environmental work etc. It doesn’t even need to involve Plod, NHS, or emergency services work, although that could be an option. Make it from ages 16-20 for example.

Anyone near national service age is now alienated if they weren't already, any parents or grandparents of that age group who might've voted for them will surely fuck them off as well. Well done, Tories, well done.

The yoot don't hang about. Add it to the list: Platty joobs Genny lec Cozzie livs Nashy servs

Trying to nick votes from Reform

No doubt very popular amongst that older generation who weren’t old enough to have to do it

I assume the lack of European football will see the likes of Dummett and Gillespie jettisoned now that we don't require a homegrown quota

The people they're appealing to are dying in their droves, and their last gasp attempt to save some seats in this SINGLE election, is to turn generations of future adults even further against them. It's like they're pissed.