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  • I have worked in the Construction Industry since I was sixteen, we had a chronic trade skills shortage before Brexit..

    • Are there enough apprentice schemes going on?
    • Do we need 18yo in University education?
    • What currency does a degree have today anyway?

    @snowy_again

    'community resilience' - volunteering for the RNLI, being an emergency responder etc.

    how many 18 year olds are going to commit to serving the community and for how long.

    If the Tories won the next general election on that policy alone, we’d have draft dodgers and wealthy families trying to buy their kids out of any scheme.

  • Sorry but across your posts I can't tell whether you're for or against some sort of community service style national service - but either way its tough to stomach someone who won't be affected it by it using terms like draft dodger or judging people for trying to get out of it.

    Fundamentally the reason this policy is so utterly unpalatable in any form in 2024 is the fact that its boomers yet again acting like a bunch of entitled idiots

  • You don’t need to apologise. If I was 18 today, I would flatly refuse to engage in a community service mandate set by the Tories. I was suggesting whether anyone would in exchange for a university degree.

    Also does not mean I would not support my neighbours and neighbourhood as I do already, or provide career advice from my industry in local schools for free.

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