Political commentator Alex Armstrong has claimed Gen Z are "too woke and too fat" to fight in a war.
It comes as Downing Street ruled out the idea of an army draft after a top army official warned that Britains could face conscription if the country finds itself at war.
On Good Afternoon Britain, GB News host Tom Harwood asked Armstrong: "You believe that every young person is simply too woke. Why?"
Armstrong said: "They're woke, fat, individualistic, overweight. Look, they can't spend more than 10 minutes without looking at their phones and doing a TikTok reel.
Alex Armstrong said that Gen Z would just be "cannon fodder"
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"So let's just be real here. How are we going to put them on a frontline and they'll just be cannon fodder, won't they?
"They'll just be cannon fodder for the Russians are much more disciplined than we are and have a much tougher time in life.
"So let's be real there's a there's a massive amount of young people who refuse to get into the workplace and when they do they spend six months at a job.
"So they're hardly going to stay on the front line forever and frankly I think that the whole generation is anti-war and they're becoming very anti-British.
Head of the army warned that people could have to go fight for the country
PA"They they don't like the monarchy as we've seen poll after poll. They're very anti monarchy. So they're certainly not going to be fighting for the King.
"Most of them don't like Rishi Sunak which you could argue is most of the country at this point. And so who will they be fighting for? What values will they be fighting for?"
However, Emily Lawford, assistant editor of Prospect Magazine, disagreed with the political commentator and said: "I think they would go to war if it came to it.
"The values that you talk about such as liberty and freedom, I think that young people do really care about those things.
Emily Lawford said that she believes young people would defend the country if they had too
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"I would argue that young people campaigning on things such as the climate emergency show a desire to protect our future.
"If Britain's future was at stake I think that young people would step up.
"I don't think that any generation has really seemed ready for war but when it happens they are.
"When people sadly have had to they have been able to step up."
