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streets.” In a speech in his Oxford constituency, Cameron spoke of a fight back to address British society’s “slow motion moral collapse”.
He is reported as having said, Britons want national service brought back to save a “lost generation” of teenage thugs from a life of urban violence.
An exclusive poll by the Sunday Express gave the Government a clear mandate on the way forward.
After four days and nights of rioting in which five people were murdered, hundreds burnt out of their homes and thousands of businesses ruined, the country says a tough army regime is called for.
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The demand comes as police expect to bring 4 000 children, youths and young men and women before the courts in the coming weeks and months.
The Sunday Express reported that 72 percent of those asked to back the idea of compulsory National Service for teenagers, supported the idea of their learning the discipline and respect of the Army. Only 17 percent were opposed. Conscription, popularly known as “the call up”, was ended in Britain in 1960 and the last National Servicemen were demobbed in May, 1963.
In the United States “the draft” ended in 1973.
Other countries have developed and changed their own national service to give young people jobs to benefit the community.
Senior Tory MP Patrick Mercer said: “If you are being taken to hospital in Germany, the likelihood is that you are being driven by a conscripted ambulance driver. There are all sorts of important ways that National Service could benefit society, while at the same time instilling some much-needed discipline into youngsters.”
Thousands of young people in such countries as Austria, Denmark, Greece, Norway, Switzerland and Finland still benefit from challenging spells in the services. – http://www.express.co.uk/ABC/AFP/smh.com.au.
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