Rishi Sunak, British Prime Minister and leader of the Conservative Party, announced that the next general election would take place on July 4, even though it could wait until January 2025 to call them. In the pre-election period or purdaha Hindu word that means curtain or veil, Sunak announces that, if his party wins, 18-year-old citizens will have to choose between joining the military full-time or doing community service one weekend a month for a year. The dissolution of Parliament will be on May 30 in preparation for the elections.
The 44-year-old prime minister’s proposal has been severely criticized by the Labor Party, which says that “it is another compromise of 2,500,000 pounds without financing from a Conservative Party that has already sunk the economy, skyrocketing mortgages, and that now insists on asking for more.” The Conservative Party has been in power for 14 years.
The tories They defend the project by arguing that the Covid-19 pandemic exposed the importance of civic service. They assure that it will not be military service such as that which was suggested by the Labor Party in 1947, approved by Parliament in 1949 and abolished in 1960, where men between 17 and 21 years old had to serve in the army for 18 months. This time, what the ruling party proposes “is an investment both in the character of young people and in our security.”
Young people who choose military training over community service will learn about cybersecurity, acquisitions, Logistics waves civil response operations for a year. There will be up to 30,000 reserved for teenagers considered “the brightest”, comments James Cleverly, UK Home Secretary to the BBC. They would have non-criminal sanctions for those who do not participate, although none would go to prison.
This initiative would reduce the possibility that young people (18 years and older) who are not employed, studying or in vocational training are participants in crimes, and would distance them “from a life of unemployment and crime.” This would provide them with valuable experience that could be used in future careers in the areas of healthcare, public service or the armed forces. It has even encouraged companies to hire candidates who complete the military optionwhat he has nicknamed “quick interviews.”
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Sunak says he will bring a new model of national service that will create a “shared sense of purpose between our young people and a renewed sense of pride” in the country. “You, your family and our country are all at risk if the Labor Party wins.” In turn, the Labor Party has repeatedly blamed the Conservative Party for the broken economy.
Applications for the first promotion of National Service will open in September 2025 and this will not be mandatory until the end of 2029 “when the next legislature ends.” Parliaments are dissolved in preparation for general elections which take place every five years, since the last time voting took place, and coincidentally, since 1935, they have been held on Thursdays.
In these elections, crime and immigration issues play an important role. This proposal is very exciting to the Conservative Party because according to Sunak, “only by feeding our shared culture we can preserve our nation and our values in the coming decades.
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