Conscripts under Conservative plans - at stations and perhaps with CRPs?

[whole diary]

[JayMac]

In the interest of balance, broadcaster and writer Danny Wallace has a different proposal 

https://twitter.com/dannywallace/status/1794779089385165294

Dad's Army was a valuable blueprint for a safe and protected Britain. I think when you reach 70, five years of service in the Home Guard should be mandatory. Otherwise pensioners face arrest or involuntary fruit picking.

If the pensioners refuse will their parents also be fined as is proposed for the youth national service?

[Marlburian]

Much of my career was as a regional press officer promoting (and defending) the Government's job creation and work experience schemes for young people. I thought they were very good ways of occupying unemployed people, giving them some basic training and the chance to earn references, as well as a small allowance.

I enjoyed visiting some projects to produce press releases, including the Quainton Road and Didcot heritage centres. I recall joining a team working on the track outside Reading Station. Another team worked at Tilehurst Station, tidying up the patch of ground next to the main road and producing an information board (that didn't survive for very long).

[Electric train]

It is an off the cuff policy, there has been very little if any thought behind it, they are making it up as they go along

[TonyK]

If the pensioners refuse will their parents also be fined as is proposed for the youth national service?

No, but any aged over 80 will lose the 25p per week age addition.

[JayMac]

[Chris from Nailsea]

One of my previous employments was with the excellent Severnside Community Rail Partnership.

My job title was 'Project Support Officer'.  My role there was to liaise with the Probation Service, who provided us with small teams of (often reluctant) workers under the 'Community Payback' scheme to clear brambles and litter from railway station car parks, for example.

I did have some good experiences there, however.  Some of those 'convicts' were making the best of it, working their required hours and 'serving their sentence'. 

There was only one 'Botany Bay' moment - and he was promptly sent back to the van by the Probation Service, to start all over again on another day. 

CfN.