Anyone that has dealt with the DWP knows what ‘will be pushed’ means: Join the Army or get Sanctioned (Article pinched from @dailypolitik.bsky.social ) - ThreadSky

sylvia-suffragette.bsky.social • 1 day ago

Anyone that has dealt with the DWP knows what ‘will be pushed’ means: Join the Army or get Sanctioned

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madmarchhare2.bsky.social•1 day ago

Conscription via the back door.
I'm sure the jingoistic Gammonati will be peeing themselves with excitement over this but, really, it's a bloody silly idea from all points of view. The conscripts don't want to be there, the Forces don't really want them, and the tax payer doesn't want to pay for it.

anthonyf272.bsky.social•15 hours ago

An army of soldiers who have been coerced to join will be worse than useless, but that's OK because they'll get private equity to run it.

pete-k.bsky.social•19 hours ago

The army stopped taking pressing unemployed soldiers whilst the Duke of Wellington was still alive.

andyprentice.bsky.social•20 hours ago

Super expensive and pointless. Army basic training has real problems with bullying behaviour by e.g. NCOs doing the training. Need to fix that and the useless outsourced recruitment system if they want more to join.

sylvie-62.bsky.social•1 day ago

This will simply drive up the Defence budget for little gain if not an actual reduction in military strength

McSweeney’s Labour Party is morally bankrupt and intellectually lazy

slim-65.bsky.social•17 hours ago

The tact used in the 60s and 70s

expected000.bsky.social•1 day ago

Ever get the feeling there's a war on the horizon?

"I discussed with my local jobcentre and the armed forces recruitment team .. the exciting careers and opportunities that are available ..for young people ..."

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expected000.bsky.social•1 day ago

" I will certainly have more conversations with colleagues in the Ministry of Defence to make sure we put this plan into action."

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https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2025-03-18/debates/2863E51D-E53D-4444-9C51-6D064D94CC8A/WelfareReform#contribution-11D412D3-B8C4-4A09-BA7D-9882264B694C

expected000.bsky.social•1 day ago

"pushed" will undoubtedly be similar to the Labour Exchanges being turned into recruiting offices in September 1914.

The Directive was sent out by William Beveridge. Any single man whose employment was terminated by the outbreak of war was to be denied benefit and directed to join the army
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expected000.bsky.social•1 day ago

"William Beveridge, head of the Board of Trade and the man who oversaw the Labour Exchanges..ordered his divisional managers to 'draw attention of unemployed men to the posters, and in every way assist the recruiting officers as much as possible"
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expected000.bsky.social•1 day ago

"The Local Government Board sent out a circular, P.R.D. 7 telling [Local] Boards that .."Single men who are physically fit and within the prescribed ages for enlistment in the navy, army or territorial forces, should not ordinarily receive assistance from the local committee"
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