While I imagine a bunch of these will be done in tandem overall... It still makes me imagine the possibility - however slim - of them not actually having a full roster come the election
Edit: And hell, with regards the national service thing, in the loosest and vaguest abstract, I don't think the notion is outright offensive. But it's not something you can just float without consideration and application for context - how it's done in the Baltic varies on a country by country basis, and of course
none of them are having to do it with a population on the scale of the UK's. They are also far less likely to be involved overseas than anyone serving in the British military through such a scheme, so the moral implications of the service's existence differ. And of course, most such systems aren't
new - though one could France as an example that
is - so wider social infrastructure has had time to adjust for and account for it.
Sunak and co clearly haven't even figured out what it is they're actually wanting to
do beyond 'Bring back national service', which is why the details have changed half a dozen times in the span of a weekend. Their conception of it is batshit, to be handled by an inept bunch of bellends, and as has been noted a few times, even the organisations that it would be ostensibly
for aren't keen because there's nothing to actually make it remotely useful to them
