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Dyed in the wool Tory voters don't need attracting. Maybe there are plenty of voters from all colours who would like to see the back of yobs roaming the streets, though.
No. What makes you think that?
Quote from: Bentley Bullet on May 26, 2024, 08:37:08 amDyed in the wool Tory voters don't need attracting. Maybe there are plenty of voters from all colours who would like to see the back of yobs roaming the streets, though. I have two teenage sons that are not yobs, they dont roam the streets, but hey, lets put them all in uniform.
Dyed in the wool Tory voters don't need attracting. Maybe there are plenty of voters from all colours who would like to see the back of yobs roaming the streets, though.
Quote from: Bentley Bullet on May 26, 2024, 08:37:08 amDyed in the wool Tory voters don't need attracting. Maybe there are plenty of voters from all colours who would like to see the back of yobs roaming the streets, though. I know they don’t. That’s why it’s futile.If you knew your history you’d know that gangs of kids roaming the streets up to no good has been going on for hundreds of years.
Yobs, if you can't serve in the army, try one of these ...........''The proposals would see a “bold new model of national service” for 18-year-olds that could see them opt to spend one weekend per month volunteering in roles such as special constable, RNLI volunteer, or NHS responder. Officials claimed it would give young people “real world skills, while contributing to their country and community”https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/25/sunak-promises-to-bring-back-national-service-for-18-year-oldsThere could be a 'Yob a bob week'
Quote from: SydneyRover on May 26, 2024, 08:51:49 amYobs, if you can't serve in the army, try one of these ...........''The proposals would see a “bold new model of national service” for 18-year-olds that could see them opt to spend one weekend per month volunteering in roles such as special constable, RNLI volunteer, or NHS responder. Officials claimed it would give young people “real world skills, while contributing to their country and community”https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/25/sunak-promises-to-bring-back-national-service-for-18-year-oldsThere could be a 'Yob a bob week'Isn't that currently known as community service, ie a sentence handed out for misdemeanours??
Where is the infrastructure to monitor this IDM?
Nothings changed…The historian Geoffrey Pearson quotes a 60-year-old named Charlotte Kirkman, who lamented that, “I think morals are getting much worse... There were no such girls in my time as there are now. When I was four or five and twenty my mother would have knocked me down if I had spoken improperly to her”. Kirkman was speaking in 1843, as part of an investigation into the bad behaviour of contemporary youth. Lord Ashley, speaking in the House of Commons in the same year, argued that “the morals of the children are tenfold worse than formerly”.
Most 18 year olds want to contribute in some way. Give them an option that is fair (paid) and it could be a huge boost in many areas. But not without big funding.I'd do something like paying for it with a 1% social levy on wealthy pensioners as a community contribution. I'd also pay it through local not central government budgets.