[Bones McCoy]

The Telegraph are taking a surprisingly sane line on it all.



Woke Theocracy, they're smoking the good stuff up in Telegraph Towers.

[Youngian]

The policy’s not even playing with a right wing loon who retweets Tommeh
https://x.com/opinionated_bat/status/17 ... Dkr8MiQKBg

[Bones McCoy]

Meanwhile Rayleigh fire service called to contain the flood of Marc Francois sploodge.

And across the Irish Sea all the DUP and TUV "Ulster Scots" are checking their Irish Passports are ready.

[Yug]

1 year service - 4 weeks of square-bashing so the kids learn how to look smart and march in step. 48 weeks building walls of sandbags on river banks in the pissing rain. Still, it'll keep them out of the unemployment figures for a year.

[Bones McCoy]

1 year service - 4 weeks of square-bashing so the kids learn how to look smart and march in step. 48 weeks building walls of sandbags on river banks in the pissing rain. Still, it'll keep them out of the unemployment figures for a year.

Meanwhile our over-stretched regulars add kindergarten supervisor to their other duties.

[Andy McDandy]

So, given the choice of a year whitewashing coal, or a weekend here and there doing some random things, who is going to pick option one?

This is entirely aimed at paranoid old dears terrified that the kids sitting on benches down the precinct are planning to mug them.

[Bones McCoy]

Rishi asserts the trickle down effect is real.

[Bones McCoy]

So, given the choice of a year whitewashing coal, or a weekend here and there doing some random things, who is going to pick option one?

This is entirely aimed at paranoid old dears terrified that the kids sitting on benches down the precinct are planning to mug them.

And if they are planning a mugging, they've now been trained to kill with their bare hands.

[Abernathy]

Would you say that Sunak's National Service guff has handed a massive incentive (as if one were needed) to millions of 19-25 year olds to go out and vote the Tories out?

[Bones McCoy]

Leeds United fans have composed a satirical ditty about our Prime Minister.

[davidjay]

Would you say that Sunak's National Service guff has handed a massive incentive (as if one were needed) to millions of 19-25 year olds to go out and vote the Tories out?

I don't think the possibility can be entirely ruled out.

[Tubby Isaacs]

I think Tory candidates may be playing down this policy by the end of the campaign.

[Oboogie]

I think Tory candidates may be playing down this policy by the end of the campaign.

Cleverly's already started on the morning media round. Apparently there won't be any sanctions for anyone who refuses to take part in this "compulsory" scheme.

Another thought, where's all the accommodation for all these 1000s of conscripts, let alone the NCOs to train them?

[Andy McDandy]

There's some housing blocks in Kigali. Throw in the jungle warfare course for free.

[Bones McCoy]

There's some housing blocks in Kigali. Throw in the jungle warfare course for free.

They've really not thought about this.
Split the intake into groups: Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Snorlax and Ravenclaw.
Invent flying broomsticks.

Rishi's marvellous magical teenage Wagner group.

[Bones McCoy]

I think Tory candidates may be playing down this policy by the end of the campaign.

Cleverly's already started on the morning media round. Apparently there won't be any sanctions for anyone who refuses to take part in this "compulsory" scheme.

Another thought, where's all the accommodation for all these 1000s of conscripts, let alone the NCOs to train them?

Back at headquarters:

We've dropped a bollock, who we gonna call.

Jimmy Dimly!!

[AOB]

Has Rishi said if his two daughters will be doing National Service in a few years then? Or will they be dodging it on some human equivalent of a tax loophole? Not that it's happening but they would if it did.

[Tubby Isaacs]

They'll be living in the Bay Area.

[Spoonman]

[Tubby Isaacs]

All over the detail, as ever.