To wonder why people aren’t worried about this??

[Mummytotwonow]

https://news.sky.com/story/time-to-think-the-unthinkable-and-consider-uk-conscription-says-britains-former-top-nato-commander-13056148

Sorry if I’ve missed any threads on this.

It’s not just sky news reporting this but for days now in the media this is being raised.

AIBU - to be extremely worried and concerned about this?

Is anyone else not worried?? Are we being prepared ready as “the higher up” know more and the threat is bigger than we’re told.

what age would it be from and to??

l‘m so scared for the world our children are growing up in 😢

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Medicine, including pharmacy
Manufacturing
Bakers
Farmers
Police

Whatever is needed to run the country
Doubt bakers would be these days
There will be IT specialists and such these days

Because any sort of nuclear interaction would drag in/threaten the entire world. Once the taboo is broken, it puts them at risk too.

So how would it work with parents? Men called up and women left to mind the children, or does it depend on occupation? Ie if you're a stay at home mum for example.

Yes we are very removed and you can see it on these threads

It will depend on occupation
If they are both fit to fight and are not in exempt jobs maybe they will be able to chose which one fights.
The Govn would want to allow some form of choice I guess.

Ps A stay at home mum is not an exempt occupation

Never fear we’re all too fat to be soldiers…..me included!

My DH thinks if Trump wins the US election he will withdraw aid from the Ukraine which would massively increase Russia's chance of advancing.

Whilst my first goes to this and people’s extreme sensitivity id like to believe that if the place turned into a war zone people would get off their whingey arses and get to work.

Sadly i can imagine a lot of fully grown people crying about how unfair everything is and how their squadron leader is “picking” on them or some such similar crap. Or men identifying as women to get out of doing any work.

Women wouldn’t be conscripted for combat purposes. They’d be put to work making weapons, food production, nursing, logistics. We would basically have to take over everything else while the men did the fighting.

As a thought experiment (because I really dont see thus happening): i think a lot of young people would sign up, SM and peer pressure I think would play a large part in this, people are already swayed by propaganda online so i think this is how they would recruit people

Women would be called up, although i suppose could just get pregnant to avoid it. Fwiw DD would be 100 x more deadly than DS in a combat situation (!)

I wouldn't worry OP, it's an election year/way to make a point about funding for the AF (which does need to be addressed). The west fights wars by proxy nowadays, Russia has no interest in invading us, it has a long history with Ukraine.

@Naptrappedmummy you talk a lot of sense. Also, @Mambo19866 I agree with you - I don’t think that there would be an inevitable escalation to nukes as ultimately, nobody wants to pay the ultimate price.

Another WLA.

It is against the law these days
Times have moved on and this is Govn policy

That would be swiftly binned if we moved to a wartime stance.

@Willyoujustbequiet To be fair - there is no comparison

If it has come to the stage of having to call up peoples random and probably quite useless sons things are going to already be pretty bad! The country will be well beyond caring about conscientious objections and well into military rule, and martial law.

This is what I understood too - that the guy has form for complaining the armed forces don't get enough money, and was effectively saying "pay for more professional soldiers - or else this..."

@Needsomebloodyperspective

She’s worried about conscription, or invasion of the Uk, or a war full stop??

Conscription thing is nonsense - it’s just a way to drum up support for expanding our (currently very contracted) armed forces. War has changed a lot in the last half century and direct combat at scale is not where it’s at.

Russia isn’t going to invade the Uk. Putin would like a bit of an Empire but that means the buffer zone of the old USsR, not Blackpool. Russia does have an economy the size of Belgium though, so they are a rogue state, not a superpower. It could be worse.

There are always wars of course but the chances of one seriously impacting on your daughter, unless it goes nuclear, are quite small. Food and fuel supply chains and stuff.

This!

They would have no chance.

Conscription would only work if there was a sense of patriotism, national pride, and the idea that your country was worth fighting for and to proud of.

Basically everything that has been stomped out of the British for the last few decades. As an outsider looking in, it’s clear those who still have some national pride and wave flags etc. are looked down upon as thick or racist people.

Why would people die over a piece of land that they have been told is not theirs?

Women wouldn’t be conscripted en mass for front line combat. It simply wouldn’t happen.

Rape in war against civilian women and girls is absolutely notorious and always has been. No nation is going to want a frontline just as vulnerable to that as the civilians they’re seeking to protect.

Women signing up for frontline duty would remain voluntary, as it is now.

Yougovn survey from 2018
Actually that’s less than I thought

Finally, some sense! It's the last 70 years that's the anomoly in human history, at least in Western Europe. We literally have never had it so good, that the great majority of people get to live to adulthood and then old age, that we have lived without significant war or famine or danger, that our children get to mostly live lives of their choosing. This are all wonderful things but they are not God given or immutable, they can and probably will change for one reason or another. If its not war if the conventional sort it will be resource wars or the outcome of climate change. We none of us are special, we're just lucky.

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@Justpontificating
Could we assume that prison service staff and paramedics would also be exempt then?