UK axes support for Mediterranean migrant rescue operation

[branford]

10. If I were British,

I might suggest that there is no unified EU military or foreign policy, nor do British citizens apparently want such policies or institutions, and the British navy fist and foremost serves the interests of British citizens at the direction of her elected representative, who apparently believed they have already offered sufficient search and rescue assistance.

Moreover, countries other than Britain and France might consider investing more money into their navies in order to deal with problems such as the migrants in the Mediterranean, rather than make costly demands of Britain, and then take such assistance entirely for granted. This point might be all the more pertinent now that the EU has just demanded billions of Euros more in payments from Britain and migrant labor is a political hot potato in Britain due to claims it depresses wages in the country.