Magic Bullet

When a government is trying to dragoon young people into employment while the policies of the same government are ensuring that very little employment is available, there are essentially two possible courses of action. The mainstream British way is to denounce the young people as lazy, idle shirkers, compare them unfavourably with one's own generation or with the paragons inhabiting some mythical patriotic utopia of the past, and force them to live with their parents into early middle age so that they may at least aspire one day to be unpaid carers. Another way is to urge them towards apprenticeship in the wog-bombing trade, which is the favoured solution for Team Starmer's minister for veterans. It's true that the drop-out rate among young recruits is too high for any positive difference to be made; but such difficulties could easily be resolved by reintroducing a version of National Service, naturally with extensive and efficientising private sector involvement. Solving economic woes through conscription, rearmament and an eventual invasion of Russia was the favoured prescription of Mr Churchill's great contemporary, and the posthumous crown of his struggle was the founding of the Righteous State. Inspired by the same basic plan, and benefiting from the strategic guidance of Saint Tony of Baghdad, what new miracles might Team Starmer not accomplish?