Rob is an editor of Tory Hoose. He is the 2012 Council Candidate for Kilmarnock East & Hurlford ward and was the 2011 Holyrood Election Agent for Kilmarnock & Irvine Valley. Follow Rob on Twitter Read more from this author

Ian Grant is the Treasurer for the Kilmarnock & Loudoun Conservative Association and the 2012 Council candidate for Kilmarnock North. Ian is a long standing member of the Scottish Conservative party and has a keen interested in business and developing young people!

If Britain was threatened with a true life and death situation, really up against it like in 1940, what kind of fight would our young people put up, to protect 1000 years of freedom in this Country and more importantly, would they even “bovva”?

Is this really a lost generation of lazy X-box players, bloated on fast food and more pampered than a Chinese panda on loan to a western zoo?

Any Devotee to Sky News would be forgiven for thinking so.  I see it differently.

On a recent tour of Israel, I met many young people. Almost all of them had taken part in some form of National service.

All the kids I met had benefited from the experience.

At a time when many British 19 year Old’s  have their minds troubled with childish ideas and ideals, their Israeli equivalents are well along the journey to becoming self-disciplined adults.

I am convinced that our young people are every bit a match for and in most cases amongst the best that this planet can produce. They are smart (just look at the exam results every year for evidence) hold clear opinions and are interested in sport, computer savvy, quick thinking and determined.

It’s the older generation who are letting them down. Liberal ideas that sap competitiveness right from the start and seek to destroy leadership, replacing it with an anarchic version of “fairness” spell disorder and often disaster in those vital formative years.

Not every British youngster is suited for traditional National Service. The majority are though. If you can lob a brick or a bottle at a policeman or kick in a T.V. shop window, you can learn to march. If you are already way ahead of that stage, you may well have what it takes to make a great young leader.

We Conservatives should not be afraid to promote this point of view. This Country is not facing an external foe, the way we have in the past, but a real threat to our way of like does exist. Our young people need a new deal.

Many cry out for respect, but have no idea what it is to be respectable.  The older generation needs to accept and embrace our traditional values. Values that built Britain into one of the leading nations in the world. Values and freedoms that the young people in Libya and many other nations greatly admire and are today prepared to give their lives for.

We need to call for some form of National service to give the best chance to our new generation.

Give them the tools, they’ll finish the job.

Will you make a stand?

Are you tough enough to take on that challenge?