Just when you thought the Left’s hatred for the UK couldn’t get any worse the NUT decides to take a leaf out of UCL’s book and urge a ban on military recruitment in schools.  You see according to the NUT the army et al are exploiting children from less affluent backgrounds.  No really. 

Apparently the armed forces aren’t making students fully aware of what they are getting themselves in for.  It’s rare that I use this word, but on this occasion I shall - what absolute tosh. Certainly the army, and other branches of the armed forces, play up the advantages of joining (such as learning new and transferable skills), but they leave potential recruits in no doubt as to what might lie in store if they join. 

I remember sitting in a room in Warminster being given a talk on life in the infantry, and the one thing I remember to this day was the office saying "but be in no doubt, as an infantry officer you may be ordered to hold a position in the full knowledge that to hold that position will mean your death."  Needless to say the room was completely silent, and nobody was in any doubt as to what they could be letting themselves in for.