David Cameron: Proto-Fascist.

I simply don’t believe that the man actually proposed this:

School leavers should be forced to do three or four months of community service, David Cameron, the Conservative leader, said yesterday.

In a speech to voluntary group leaders, he said he did not want to bring back National Service but wanted young people to have the same feeling of achieving "something we all did together".

Leave aside all the blethering about university fees and so on that others do. He specifically wants it to be compulsory:

Mr Cameron said: "If it [community service] isn't compulsory or if it isn't universal it could tend to be something else that well-off families do because it's good for their kids.

"But it would not reach some of the most marginalised families and excluded children who actually would really benefit."

Now this is voluntary work remember. No pay. (If it was for pay it would be just as bad in one way and worse in another. Why pay 18 year olds to do something when we could have experienced people doing it? Bang goes productivity.)

He is seriously suggesting that all people should work, unpaid, for the State. This is Fascism folks, a foul and vile idea that the interests of the State trump those of the individual. That our labour is something at the disposal of said State, that we are mere helots to be told what to do as the Lords and Masters desire. 

There are disgusting overtones of the Lord’s Days on a medieval manor, those days when labour was owed to the feudal master rather than the individual.

We, the people, create the government to do those things for us that have to be done collectively and with the possibility of compulsion being necessary. But we do not belong to that State for them to dispose of us as they will.

I simply cannot believe that a Tory could propose such a vile idea, something quite so illiberal, for the State to command, to confiscate, our lives.

Fuck that, frankly.