Gordon Brown has decided he wants to make volunteer work compulsory:
Gordon Brown has announced plans that could see every teenager in the country complete up to 50 hours of volunteer work by the age of 19.
The automatic reaction to something being compulsory is to resent it. No-one likes being told what to do. This is one reason why schoolkids here will play up in class and bunk – school is compulsory. In Africa by comparison, kids will walk for miles in bare feet to attend school, just like people in the West did in former generations – because school is a privilege that they value.
If Gordon Brown wants to ensure kids hate “volunteer” work and don’t choose to do any more than the bare minimum 50 hours, this is the way to go about it.
It can never be compulsory to volunteer. Check a dictionary.
Hat tip: Fairfacts Media
Samuel Dennis 