As a BNP supporter how do you feel about military National Service

Comment on General Election 2010 Poll Results by David.

As a BNP supporter how do you feel about military National Service being linked to the right to vote?

I like the concept of National Service, I agree we need to do something about our young people and could see a form of National Service useful.

I’d never even consider linking it to the right to vote or gun ownership though, just doesn’t make sense. How does being in the military prepare you for voting, I don’t understand the link?

I wouldn’t use compulsory National Service either, maybe if a 16-25 year old isn’t in work for a period of time, isn’t training or in education (doing nothing productive) then maybe link a form of National Service/community work to whatever welfare benefits they receive. Refuse to do something productive without a good reason, cut the benefits considerably.

I realise things like this have been tried before and failed, so not sure how to make it work on a large scale without it costing a fortune. I think the mistake in the past is trying to generate new work with these schemes which are costly to run (they pretty much need ‘guards’ to make sure the young people turn up/do the work!).

Having young people working in charity shops and existing non profit businesses could be a way forward?

There should be no large scale investment in people to watch over those participating in such a scheme, have the charity/non profit business rate whether the individual is working hard or not. If not remove them from the scheme and cut their benefits 3 months and try again, fail twice cut benefits further.

If some young people choose military National Service, great, but it should be a choice and linked to penalties/rewards.

Like with many things BNP, National Service is a good idea, but why so extreme with linking it to voting rights!!!

I was reading BNP supporter comments on the main BNP site and apparently some BNP supporters like the idea of military National Service because they think Muslims won’t want to do it and this will result in less emigrating here and others seeing the BNP voluntary repatriation scheme (pay settled immigrants to leave Britain) as more enticing than the military. One commenter on the BNP site went as far as to say Muslims should NOT be allowed to have their prayer times while serving!

This is from the Scotland BNP section of the BNP site (so official BNP, not a BNP supporter comments):

PUBLIC & MILITARY NATIONAL SERVICE IN THE 21st CENTURY

Its introduction, would also make the BNP Government policy of voluntary repatriation, much more appealing to the huge percentage of Muslims, who don’t tick any of the exemption boxes, and would be called up along with thousands of other immigrants who have flocked to our shores.

Gary Raikes
BNP Scottish Secretary

David