Conscript the youth, national service is back on the menu, or that’s what Mr Sunak would have us believe. The absolute bottom of the barrel of policy ideas has been trotted out again by a flailing Tory party incapable of admitting its impending annihilation is entirely its fault.
Conservative mouthpieces were quick to suggest the youth owe the country this service and that it would foster a new level of civic-mindedness and pride in the nation. This type of policy in modern Britain is obviously moronic for several reasons. Firstly, the assertion that it would instil pride in the youth for the present state of Britain, but what is there to be proud of? Stagnating wages, stratospheric house prices and native young Britons are at the back of the queue for whatever scraps are left. You can’t force pride; the Tories are suggesting you can appear like pound shop communist dictators.
Do they imagine a world where hysterical Gen Z youth would weep tears of joy at the sight of glorious Rishi? This delusional image that they have about Britain exists only in their heads and is part of the “Michaela School Mindset” currently infesting the Tory party. The idea is that you can force social cohesion and pride in Britain out of the new multicultural morass so long as you are strict enough. It’s essentially a prison society devoid of expression and, in many ways, the ultimate attempt to actualise an adherence to “British values.”
Secondly, have young people not been through enough over lockdown when the Conservative Government imposed unnecessary measures on many of their lives to look after those that were older, infirm or both? Why is it in a society where the older generations will prosper while the youth face a deracinated future of penury & state oppression with more being asked of them? We live in a detached Society where the words “I’ll be dead before it happens” are often found shamefully parting from the lips of those who have known a life that would appear to be entirely out of reach for younger & future generations.
The cherry on top of the announcement of National Service was the news that the Tories would introduce a further guarantee for the state pension. Why is this necessary? The pensions are already substantial and well guaranteed by the current “triple lock” that the Tories introduced. Further sweetening this deal is a desperate attempt at voter bribery. Pensions, the ageing population, and immigration are all connected. Indeed, we’re told we need immigration to maintain the working-age population to deliver these pensions in the future.
This policy of migration replacement is unlikely to deliver the economic growth required to justify the continuation of a low-wage, high-GDP economy that only serves finance and pension funds. This is despite the fact that most immigrants are not net contributors and are, in fact, significant net drains. This soucing of migrant labour is far from the noble cause they would have you believe. The truth is that to keep the global financial Ponzi scheme going, our government needs new stakeholders to pay the old stakeholders; the problem, however, is that the labour market is saturated with an excess supply. You need two new stakeholders for every old stakeholder. We get poorer, they get richer, and the country gets fuller.
The future should be placed in the hands of the youth to make provisions for their future. They should not be aggressively taxed to fund mass immigration and the unrealistic expectations of a generation that undoubtedly had the best wealth increase in history. Speaking of which, Keir Starmer’s labour has proposed lowering the voting age to sixteen. Much like their idea of introducing proportional representation, I personally welcome this change. This could balance out our ageing population’s increasingly unrealistic demands. It presents different challenges based on demographics, but this is happening anyway.
Jeremy Clarkson waded into the debate around national service with the idea that young people could work on farms, not for free but to be paid. This sort of thinking makes a refreshing change. Indeed, this society’s concept of unpaid work is ridiculous. British youth have more competition in the job market from mass unskilled migrant labour and international students pumped into the country by ex-polytechnic visa mills.
I hope Mr Clarkson manages to implement this in his wildly popular farm at least and that other farmers around the country follow suit. Ventures like this will be necessary if we dismantle the visa mill university scam that creates degrees that are not worth the paper they are printed on but have become an essential part of finding employment in Britain. As in the past, Paid vocational learning is the way forward for Britain. We must end the modern practice of significantly indebting the youth for tickbox degrees.
It would seem a radical shift in policy is needed: no more money should be given to the NHS to recruit foreign workers; instead, this money should be used to offer incentives, in the form of grants or interest-free loans, to help our children get a degree in medicine or other vital professions.
