Six months of compulsory voluntary work for the under-25s are among the recommendations set out by former Home Secretary and compulsive shagger David Blunkett, in a report submitted to Gordon Brown today.
“Being sent round to weed your garden for you free, gratis and for nothing will demonstrate to the youth of today that we have to do things for ourselves as the global economic crisis develops,” he said. “Look, we all know that young people are the curse of modern society, and sooner or later they’re all going to get a community sentence. We might as well get it out of the way beforehand, and save the overburdened courts a lot of paperwork.”
When asked, on the Today programme, whether he saw the scheme as a form of compulsory national service, Mr Blunkett replied: “It’s been reinforced to me in the last year that you can’t have volunteering unless it’s voluntary.”
“But I can’t see it myself,” he added.
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