Asking Scots if they would fight and die for Rishi Sunak | General Election 2024

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Published 2024-05-28
In a desperate roll of the dice, Rishi Sunak announced plans to reinstate national service for 18-year-olds.

Ed Campbell hit the streets of Edinburgh to see how Scots feel about the plan - and if any of them would die for their country.

Reporter: Ed Campbell
Camera: Harry Ainsworth

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All Comments (21)
  • @Thelma7361
    I don’t see a country I want to defend. What am I fighting for, my landlord? The bankers? Westminster? Its laughable.
  • Ex Scottish infantrymen, no to national service. Why risk your health and well being for these bastards
  • @Spiderwebsider
    Beats me why any young person would be willing to give up their life to make billionaires and bankers even richer.
  • @abethegamerful
    Both young people and older generations can both agree there is nothing worth dying for in the UK anymore. You die for the rich to get richer.
  • @odineinmann5299
    'Asking Scots', proceeds to go the uni area and ask a bunch of English people in Edinburgh
  • @woody1456
    battlefields are never strewn with millionaires !
  • @Just_Proudy07
    As an English guy.......... I wouldn't pick up a gun and fight for this country............ This country has gone to shit
  • @logitech7989
    God bless Scotland and Ireland !! ALL love from MOROCCO !
  • @dannybruns2196
    I never thought I'd hate and despise a politician as much as Johnson but sunak is coming fucking close
  • You're right, for centuries people have been dying for their country, but the truth is, for centuries it is the poor who die to protect the privileged of the country. If the poor return in one piece, they often live out a miserable existence. It should be the people that are privileged and have everything in society to go off to war to protect what they have. Let them do the fighting if they think their lifestyle is worth protecting. Screw Rishi Sunak
  • @susannahhunt100
    I am a Londoner who has lived in Scotland for a few years. The sentiments are exactly what I expected and agree with. I have never known a Tory Government up here in my time.
  • @dudleydyer9224
    If you speak to any seasoned War Veteran, they would not go through the horrors that they did again if they had the choice. And that was during an actual threat to their Nation's safety. Why would anybody want to risk their life to fight proxy wars, that only exist to transfer public money to private stakeholders?
  • @dogzero1
    Vote Conservatives for more of this: 1. Highest energy bills in Europe. 2. Highest taxes in 70 years. 3. Highest interest rates since 2008. 4. Highest train fares in Europe. 5. Longest waiting lists in NHS history. 6. Raw sewage pumped into rivers and our coastline. 7. Lowest corporate taxes in 50 years. 8. Lowest State Pension in Europe. 9. Highest Immigration both legal and illegal ever. 10. Destroyed the NHS dentist service. 11. Brought the Brexit vote and ruined the country. 12. One failed Prime Minister after another. 13. Worlds shortest in post Prime Minister. 14. More corrupt MP's than any other party in parliament. 15. Europes longest Austerity for the lower paid. 16. Highest Council Tax rates in the World. 17. Reduced our Armed Forces more than any other G8 country. 18. Highest number of MP's that have been arrested for sexual offences. 19. Highest number of MP's that have been sacked for corruption and Fraudulent acts. 20. Voted to allow Bankers to have unlimited bonus's even though the bankers caused the crash of 2008. 21. More libraries closed due to council cuts than any other modern country. 22. Ruined and destroyed the Train services by giving private companies tax payers money as subsidies. 23. Voted against Labours creation of the minimum wage. 24. Water companies failing to produce safe drinking water due to profits going to the rich shareholders normally in other countries. 25. Trebled the National Debt whilst giving Tax cuts to the rich. 26. Promised £350 million per week after Brexit for our NHS. 27. Promised 40 brand new hospitals of which one was built. 28. Had a Liar and a Criminal Prime Minister, which is a G8 first. 29. And a Prime minister who crashed the economy and increased the mortgages of hundreds of thousands of people but was in office less time than a Lettuce is on a supermarket shelf. 30. The biggest increase in Foodbanks with some stupid Tories even bragging that they have more foodbanks in their constituency. 31. Broke all their promises on Net Zero and other Green and enviromental policies. 32. Promising to Level Up the North and South, which just meant absolutely nothing. The North is still far poorer in every sense than the South. 33. Increasing the mega rich people wealth whilst causing the biggest cost of living crisis the UK has ever seen. 34. And finally, wasted billions of Tax payers money on crony PPE contracts for their friends and other Tory donators many of which made millions and invest it in tax havens. God bless the Tories. The most evil and corrupt party this country has ever seen. It beggars belief that any working class person would ever vote for these self serving corrupt tories.
  • @dvajn
    Love the fact that a clever young man on the streets of Edinburgh can come up on the spot with a better 'national service' plan than Rishi and his policy advisors... I'll have to assume education in Scotland is somewhat better than the rest of the country.