Is it "Un-British" to Rock the Boat?

 It's long been held that it's a quintessential British virtue to play fair and  toe the line.

But Britain in it's best moments has been far from that. 

In the best moments of world War Two we were conniving and cunning: we dropped a corpse off the coast of Spain to deceive the Germans (Operation Mincemeat), we also created a whole fake army stationed in the UK: Fake radio signals and inflatable tanks made the Germans think we would invade via the direct Calais route. 

I World War One we invented the Tank. So named in order to cover the development and existence of the machine until it turned up on the Battlefields.

Way, way back, we were Buccaneering, we buckled and swashed across the World. We helped stop the slave trade at great expense to the nation.

So my point is, why are we so shy when it comes to politics these days?

Why aren't we dragging the dinghies back to France? Or at the very least disabling them before they reach the half-way point between France and England? A small fast RIB could get in there and Bugger up their engines or slash the dinghy tubes while they are on the French side so the French have to rescue them and return them back to France. Our boat would be too small for a rescue.

Do that a few times and the dinghies will stop. Sure, the French could protest all they want about our boats entering into French territory, but fuck 'em! Let them protest. 

But it's their boats that are effectively abetting an illegal trafficking trade. Should the French Navy boats intervene, or god forbid start firing on our boats, then we escalate with bigger boats and if necessary impound the French boats and prosecute the Captains for their illegal support of an illegal trade. I wouldn't bother warning them in advance. Nobody lets criminals know of a raid in advance, do they?

Should the French require us to investigate and prosecute the people manning our boats, then we can sagely nod and do fuck all about it. Just as the French seemingly appear to be doing nothing about the kingpins involved in the illegal people smugglers. Just a shrug of the shoulders and a "Sorry Mate, can't find 'em".

I see one of the ISIS "Beatles" has been detained at Luton airport after being handed over by Turkish authorities. He should rot in hell all his living days for what he's done.