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A great idea from Cameron
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Anyone see David Cameron on the news this morning? He was on to explain his great idea of compulsory volunteering (!?) Kind of like national service without the army. Of course he didn't have a clue about how to impliment it, or really what it would consist of, but he was very enthusiastic about it. There's nothing on the BBC website about it yet (though the actual content of the interview would probably fill a single line of text) but I'll post it if it appears.
So, compulsory volunteering... :yippe: ...your thoughts?
So, compulsory volunteering... :yippe: ...your thoughts?
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It would be good at so many different levels: it would fight prejudice, broaden the mind, help people acquire a foreign language...
It would help people from poorer backgrounds because they would effectively get uni for next to nothing, and it would help the charities.
He's not talking about forcing people to vote.
Ah, I've only just woken up and read volenteering as voting.
Its still not that great an idea....as has been said you cant force people to do something
...but I digress
I thought you had to register to vote first, then it's compulsory once you register.
To go back to the voting thing I quite like the idea of compulsory voting – in Australia I believe you can spoil your ballot paper so nobody is being forced to choose a candidate. I don’t see why the same couldn’t work here. Oh and if it was up to me there’d be no postal voting either except for people who are physically unable to go out and vote because they’re disabled or out of the country.
That couldn't work - finding tens of thousands of placements each year would be impossible. Also people genuinely needing to work those sort of jobs would find themselves struggling to gain employment.
The system bong suggested is a good idea though...
this would eventualy appear in the western world.
conscription to serving the third world ...the cleaning up of the environment etc etc.
like the army but with brushes and shovels and all manner of other tools and skills as opposed to guns and marching.
Just another means of evading accountability by putting the onus on the little guy while profits continue unabated.
Sounds like a good Tory measure to me. Thatcher would be proud!
but i do believe it is coming.
if twenty years ago you had written on here that the united kingdom would have the most watched by the powers that be ...population ...you'd have been laughed at.
there are more cameras in this country than anywhere on earth.
all kinds of things have changed in a manner i never thought the people would allow ...let alone welcome with indifference or even open arms.
it's coming ...to a land near you ...soon.
Ironic. I have seen it coming for a long time. All it will lead to, is what has been predicted before. And change will come, for better, or more likley for worse.
there is a massive shift in global power and production taking place right now ...that few would have predicted.
this shift is happening just as recources are going to have to be fought over in one way or another more and more.
the western dream has peaked.
the expectation of jobs and family and property have all but been swept away already.
we live in hugely overcrowded cities ...or you lot do.
our entire system is now without foundations of any kind.
what holds it all together and keeps it turning is so frighteningly fragile.
i have seen the future brother ...it is murder.
oh ...i feel a song coming on ...http://www.youtube.com/w/Leonard-Cohen---The-Future?v=-l8ESkVuz6Y&search=leonard%20cohen
Our system had the worst foundations anyway... and then we sold off our foundations, as it made profit... now we will feel the consequences.
Sigh, my lifetime will be interesting, if nothing else. :rolleyes:
Concentration camps being arranged in the US, bank staff being told what to do in the event of a crash. Scary, scary shit is just arround the corner.
The US is almost out of cash -
http://www.forbes.com/afxnewslimited/feeds/afx/2006/01/01/afx2422463.html
And, near in mind that this is debt instrument cash, that is borrowing upon borrowing. What does Iran plan on stopping using in the next few months? The dollar. Oh deary me.
That run on belief that paper is valuable. That belief isn't going to feed you if things go wrong.
my grandfathers generation did the same.
my generation have to be the luckiest geneartion that possibly ever lived.
your generation are ...not going to have it anywhere near as good i'm afraid.
Technology is advancing rapidly.
World power is shifting.
The West is going to lose its throne.
And choas is probably going to be the result.
It will however, likley mean my life becomes worse.
imagine the cash machines and shop tills being turned off for 24hr hours.
the whole system stops.
i have seen this coming for years.
i may well manage to survive as a peasant on the land ...even a hunter if needs be.
i know how to catch and kill my dinner ...i know how to grow it.
i also know how to live in reasonable comfort in a woodland or hillside.
skills lost ...voted away even ...by these mordern people.
take most people to the countryside its a pretty place ...but very hostile to the majority.
few still have eyes that can actualy see ...the woods is where we original belong.
it is all coming crashing down.
some will survive and even thrive ...most i fear won't.
deprivation and degredation is the future for most of those in the west.
bet you three goats and a yard of sacking.
I cannot practice them, I only know the theory... which in all probability, means I die... Or, I shall just become freindly with those who seize all the supplies, then kill them and take over myself!