The military is no place for the unemployed

HOW convenient of Works and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall to encourage unemployed youths to join the Armed Forces. Incidentally, Liz, the line of succession is Royal Navy, Army and then RAF!

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Is this simply a Labour attempt to establish a “youth unemployed national recruitment effort” to fill the Armed Forces gap?

The Armed Forces require those with ability, mentality and dedication within their chosen branch to progress, achieve and, following their service, to bring that to the civil platform.

Please don’t just fill that void with the “unemployed” youth. They will not have the “Service mentality” to even get out of initial training!

The current Labour Party mentality of “fill the trenches” with unemployed youth is a no-brainer! Kendall needs to re-brain - very early!

Bob Gelder

Labour cannot be trusted on defence

DO I trust Labour on defence? Not a chance! About as much as I trust them on stopping the illegal migrants problem!

Time and time again, both parties have shown themselves to be antidefence, cutting the forces to the bone, yet they still seem to think we are still the world's policeman, yapping at the heels of the USA.

Yes, they have trimmed the bloated foreign aid giveaway, but what about the £5 billion we waste on illegals? They say they have increased defence spending, we need to vastly increase it so we have a viable defence credibility.