United Kingdom Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has threatened young residents that if they refuse to do the National Service for the military, then a slew of restrictions will be placed on those people, including losing their “access to finance” and other basic living standards.
As British elections heat-up, Sunak shared his “draconian” idea – as The Huffington Post called it – during an election Question Time special on BBC1. The paper explains that ‘under the National Service plan, which was announced by the PM at the start of the election campaign, every 18-year-old in the country would have to either join the military or spend one weekend a month carrying out a community service.’
Fiona Bruce asked Sunak: “If national service is going to be compulsory how will you make people do it?” Sunak replied: “Well you’ll have a set of sanctions and incentives and we will look at the models that are existing around Europe to get the appropriate mix of those.”
When asked as to what those restrictions might be Sunak said there would be “a range of different options.” But when pressed further for specific examples, Sunak replied:
There’s all sorts of things that people do across Europe, whether that’s looking at driving licenses, other access to finance, all sorts of other things.
The host tripped over her words shocked at what she had just heard and asked if Sunak meant he would have British citizens’ bank cards taken away. Sunak and the crowd chuckled, but the PM did not really specify what he meant by his comment…
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