The Prime Minister was forced to defend his National Service programme last night after it came under heavy fire from allies and opponents alike. Details of the plan are sketchy, the Army’s top brass doesn’t like it and a Conservative Defence Minister poo-pooed the idea when questioned about it last week. The Mail has more.
The policy announcement sparked a heated debate over the weekend – with Labour branding it “desperate” and even some Conservatives worried that it was akin to a “grown-up Boy Scouts”. But others in the party backed the PM, as did former defence chiefs.
Under the plan, 18-year-olds will be given a choice between a full-time placement in the Armed Forces for 12 months or spending one weekend a month for a year volunteering in their community.
Last night, it was revealed that teenagers would be incentivised to sign up for the scheme with fast-tracked interviews for graduate schemes in both the private and public sectors, and the opportunity to highlight National Service on their UCAS applications to help them getting into university. …
Studies from Norway and Israel, which have national military service schemes, suggest they give youngsters a “leg up” into subsequent careers, the Tories said.
The Conservatives have promised to establish a Royal Commission, bringing in expertise from across the military and civil society to establish the details of the programme. It will be asked to look at models in other countries to design incentives for those taking part in Britain.
The party said the Commission would be tasked with bringing forward a proposal for how to ensure the first pilot is open for applications in September 2025.
After that, it would seek to introduce a new National Service Act to make the measures compulsory by the end of the next Parliament, the party said.
Worth reading in full.
Stop Press: In the Telegraph, Foreign Office minister Anne-Marie Trevelyan has refused to rule out prosecuting parents if their children refuse to participate in Sunak’s National Service programme.
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Brilliant way to start the day. Haven’t stopped laughing for at least ten minutes. More like this please – even the dumbest Guardian readers might start quivering an eyebrow!
And to top it all, you’re guaranteed a ‘happy ending.’
That’s reptilist
Ah, the Oxford Climate Journalism Network, an assembly of fiction authors.
The earth’s 4.6billion year history has all come down to Hitting Vulnerable Indonesian Trans Sex Workers!
Oh, the poor little mites!
What about the one that says frogs will croak a semi tone higher because of climate change. Or the one that said pigs will fart quieter because of climate change. Or the one that said humans will shrink back to pigmy size. ————-OK so I made it all up. But what is the difference between me making it all up and government funded scientists making it all up? ——-The only difference is that I get no taxpayer subsidy
Perhaps the increasingly ridiculous nature of these scare stories is a sign that the alarmists realise that they are losing the battle of ideas, that the tide has turned (!) and that fewer and fewer people give them any credence? It’s a shame that Numberwatch has gone into hibernation, although its corpse is still embalmed at: https://web.archive.org/web/20120419022917/http://www.numberwatch.co.uk/warmlist.htm
Unfortunately we are left with a compromised, unaffordable power supply and transport chaos.
And of course the frogs will disappear, models show: https://www.worldwildlife.org/species/poison-dart-frog
How many people spotted that actually, that is the most ridiculous statement of all.
Just to be clear, Indonesia is comprised of over 17,000 islands, totalling 1.9 million square kilometres spread out over literally thousands of kilometres.
The idea that you can produce some meaningful temperature statistic for an entire year for all that area and then assert that there has been a change in five years of 0.14°C, a difference so small you couldn’t even feel it.
But that’s where we are. We are so used to hearing and repeating insane things that even an intelligent and well meaning person like Mr Morrison ends up writing something so ridiculous without realising (i presume) that it’s complete nonsensical garbage.
Some things lose their meaning when you average them ——Temperature is one of those things. Mainly because temperature is not an amount of anything. Indonesia doesn’t have a temperature and neither does Earth. Sure you can record thousands of temperatures on thermometers and work out some average or other, but the number you get is not actually a temperature. It is just a statistic. It is not the temperature of anything.
Absolutely. And it would be nice if Mr Morrison didn’t indulge the stupidity by using these meaningless stats even if they supposedly favour his argument. Or if he does, at least he should mention that the statistic doesn’t actually make any sense.
It’s not my intention to appear critical of Mr Morrisson.I really appreciate his reporting on climate policy here on the DS.
I just think it’s worth making the point that when we use the distorted language and false concepts that are used to prop up these ideologies, we are implicitly accepting them and therefore inadvertently conceding an argument that should never be conceded.
Like the word pandemic applied to covid 19. It’s a gross distortion of language to cement the idea that covid was an extremely dangerous diseases when it just wasn’t.
400 journalists from across the world take lengthy sabbaticals to be indoctrinated into the campaign to push a climate ‘emergency’ narrative into every conceivable story.
I reminded of the situation a few years ago (probably ongoing) in which many local newspapers carried articles with essentially the same script and graphics, entitled something like “What would [XYZ] look like if sea levels rose?” The XYZ was replaced by the locality of the paper, and the graphics appeared to be simply the output of the same computer program when told to produce a map of the coastline around XYZ. The maps all re-drew the coastline in a suitably scary colour scheme to show how far inland the “rising sea level” would reach, typically by going up estuaries and flood plains.. Based on the notion that “a picture is worth a thousand words” I would guess that readers would remember the scary graphic but forget all the words like “would”, “if”, and “might”. The question I ask is: who funded the development of the program and its targeted marketing to many local newspapers? It’s fairly cheap to produce, but is obviously based on objective data like land height merged with model data of sea level rise of a few feet: the rest is just colouring in blue pixels.
Quite separately, in schools some twenty years ago as teachers we had to create or use pre-created teaching materials such as “Why Doncaster might be a coastal resort by 2050”. Although presented as a game in a light-hearted manner, the teaching materials surely left the children with the image that Doncaster (or their local town) WOULD be a coastal resort if they flew away on holiday but all would be well if they built windmills, put their rubbish in coloured bins and painted their school in rainbow colours.
It was was much the same in learning how to teach English as a Second Language in schools: the “comprehension” articles we used often used materials derived from the Global Warming narrative or sometimes the anti-colonialism movement. I felt that this was subliminal indoctrination for those causes, but it was dangerous to comment on this.
Summary: the infiltration of climate change ideas is apparent not just in journalism but in education. Who is paying for all this? Why are sceptics blocked?
Nothing like a climate & trans story to hide the news that Sir Sneer is going to introduce an NHS App as the way to resolve the NHS problems.
HuxleyP and others foresaw this as the WEF need digital control over our lives.
It has nothing to do with medicine since the three biggest groups who use the services would not be able to use an App eg
1) The elderly with cognitive decline
2) The mentally ill
3) The addicted
Another conspiracy theory come true.
The mediocrity of the people that wield all this power against us is so depressing.
An App. FFS.
And don’t forget that Slimey Sunak’s father in law is cofounder of Infosys, a company which works very closely with the WEF and runs the largest digital ID and social credit systems in the world…. be afraid, very afraid
“How climate change is causing cases of trans spread Venereal Disease in Indonesia to plummet!” So, good news then.
Another excellent article from the Daily Sceptic’s Environment Editor.
It also shows the new Globalist/Communist neurolinguistic programming term “vulnerable”, now applied to every type of criminal, along with “mental health problems”, inviting sympathy with predators instead of their victims.
It’s a bizarre & wild garbage story but why not when they know most people believe anything they hear ?
id like some grant to research & 100% prove how climate “crisis” is effecting the lives of snakes disguised as human politicians by making them richer
I lap up everything you write here, Chris, but this story did not warrant coverage other than on 01 April.