John_W

The Met released their gun crime figures this morning and interestingly stated that 46% of the 386 firearms recovered last year were converted blank firers.
Note that they have specifically said Blank Firers so hopefully we have moved away from the bollocks about "replica guns converted with tools bought from B&Q" that was being spouted back in 2006. I would be curious as to wether these were UK Spec or illegally imported European Spec front venting - I suspect the latter as that was the finding of Merseyside police a few years ago. 
 
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/articles/cxee411r07xo.amp

The Met released their gun crime figures this morning and interestingly stated that 46% of the 386 firearms recovered last year were converted blank firers.
Note that they have specifically said Blank Firers so hopefully we have moved away from the bollocks about "replica guns converted with tools bought from B&Q" that was being spouted back in 2006. I would be curious as to wether these were UK Spec or illegally imported European Spec front venting - I suspect the latter as that was the finding of Merseyside police a few years ago. 
 
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/articles/cxee411r07xo.amp

The Met released their gun crime figures this morning and interestingly stated that 46% of the 386 firearms recovered last year were converted blank firers.
Note that they have specifically said Blank Firers so hopefully we have moved away from the bollocks about "replica guns converted with tools bought from B&Q" that was being spouted back in 2006. I would be curious as to wether these were UK Spec or illegally imported European Spec front venting - I suspect the latter as that was the finding of Merseyside police a few years ago. 
 
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/articles/cxee411r07xo.amp

Having taken the time to read the Labour Manifesto, their specific focus is on reducing Knife Crime. No mention of Gun Crime or Replicas.
Unlike 2005 when they specificaly mentioned Replicas, though only in regards to raising the purchase age.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4335097.stm

Having taken the time to read the Labour Manifesto, their specific focus is on reducing Knife Crime. No mention of Gun Crime or Replicas.
Unlike 2005 when they specificaly mentioned Replicas, though only in regards to raising the purchase age.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4335097.stm

Having taken the time to read the Labour Manifesto, their specific focus is on reducing Knife Crime. No mention of Gun Crime or Replicas.
Unlike 2005 when they specificaly mentioned Replicas, though only in regards to raising the purchase age.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4335097.stm

Real milsim would be three days of harbouring up, 30 minutes contact and an afternoon cleaning weapons while the CQMS drinks tea. 

Which one would you join? The Popular Front for Airsoft,  the People's Airsoft Front,  the People's Front for Airsoft? Or perhaps the Airsoft Peoples Popular Front?

Which one would you join? The Popular Front for Airsoft,  the People's Airsoft Front,  the People's Front for Airsoft? Or perhaps the Airsoft Peoples Popular Front?

Make Airsoft Great Again

I'll be that guy again, and ask: if you feel strongly that UKAPU isn't doing what you want, what's stopping you from volunteering to join it, and changing that? 

Welcome, Great first post, can we expect much of the same in the future ?🤣

What I think is that volunteering has merits and should be encouraged.  However, what I know is that Uniparty Blue has cut funding for the National Citizen Service by 2/3rds since 2019, and reportedly Sanook personally tried to scrap it entirely as chancellor.
 
So what I conclude is that this is an unfunded, unplanned, entirely fantastical Hail Mary announcement by a man who doesn't mean a word of it, and whose wife is already picking out the curtains for their Malibu mansion.
 
When James Dimly was rolled out to explain that this definitely compulsory probably unpaid indentured servitude would likely not have an element of compulsion, maybe, it became pure farce.

Don't be silly, Rishi's kids'll be safely at school in California shortly after the general election.

Using logic does that mean any MP who hasn't served will be debarred from holding their position? I mean all the fascist undertones aside I'm sorta down with that.... 

That's my point, those who are interested have those opportunities and those who aren't will do anything they can to get out of it.
 
Also please tell me I'm not the only one getting Starship Troopers vibes from this

They are proposing that the 30,000 going to the military would be engaged with logistics, cyber security, procurement or civil response operations.

For those volunteering, they would work with the NHS, fire service, ambulance, search and rescue, and critical local infrastructure, among others.  I am not sure how a mere 25 days per year would result in them making any appreciable difference to those organisations.

Funding for all this is also an issue; it looks like 60% (around £1.5 billion) of it will be "diverted" from the UK Shared Prosperity Fund, which was established to replace the financial support that community organisations lost when we left the EU..

"Volunteer work" sounds like the classic out of touch Tory sentiment that reflects those who had the privilege of not needing to earn money because their parents were more than wealthy to cover them. On top of that, it's just a way to legalise not paying people for their services and make up for the shortfall.

Just another lazy attempt to divert people away from just how badly successive tory governments have fucked the country up. Unfortunately though I don't think labour will do much better

God how tired and desperate must they be to try and peddle this old rope?
 
I am always skeptical of people who push national service in the name of building 'community'. If only it were that fucking easy! If we are interested in building community and stopping the disintegration of 'civil society' we must start much earlier and rethink the core values that have been rammed down people's throats. As Thatcher infamously said 'there is no such thing as society'. This disastrous myth, the first commandment of neoliberalism, insists that we are individuals first and only. We must support ourselves, we are on our own. People been fed this shite for a long time now.
 
How can a society hold this toxic credo at its core and then demand national service in the name of solidarity and community, some nebulous greater good that they have little to no real share in? How can those people who are richest, who have benefited most from a prior era of relative stability and prosperity demand anything from the first generations in a long time projected to be far worse off than their parents in almost every metric? It reeks.
 
Youth clubs have been decimated for over a decade. Even third spaces for adults seem to be slowly drying up. Wages are stagnant even while corporate greed continues to squeeze us. Childcare costs are beyond extortionate. AI is apparently coming for everyone's job. Housing is in total shambles. Our rivers and seas are being pumped full of shite... like its an actual fucking shit show!
 
The caliber of leadership has utterly plummeted. They are out of ideas, just throwing shit like this at the wall now to see what might stick. Labour won't do much better but I think seeking a bit of stability and taking stock of the situation without a fucking new leader every 6 months would be a start.
 
 

Fucking joke thrown out to grab a few headlines.