National Citizen Service
A short message from David Mundell, the Conservative's sole Scottish MP, on the "National" Citizen Service proposal.
“We are extremely disappointed the SNP government has refused to even consider the National Citizen Service and have rejected it only hours after it has been launched.
“We were hoping to work with the Scottish Government to see it introduced in Scotland. Thousands of Scottish youngsters will now miss out on a real opportunity and our society and our economy will also suffer.
“This is narrow nationalism at its worst. It is another example of the SNP putting petty party politics ahead of the interests of the young people of Scotland.”
How is that 'treating Scotland with respect'? England has its own volunteering agency, so why not use that and let Scotland do its own thing?
There are shades of Gordon Brown's 'Britishness' classes about this. It's not to my mind a very Conservative proposal; less Burke's little platoons, more central government control.
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Cameron says he wants the
Cameron says he wants the scheme to become universal but the proposed structure of six weeks during the summer break doesn’t exactly give much room for staggering. In theory over half a million youngsters would be sent to residential centres during the same week, requiring supervision from over 150,000 mentors. Back of the envelope figures obviously. And they would all be involved in climbing things and helping the elderly at the same time every year. I’m not sure even Wales could provide a sufficient supply of old people and mountains.