Seems like the standard Modus Operandi around here.
Except there's a whole bunch more ways to jump ship these days. Or camp out under the poop deck.
So while it may kinda work, it probably won't kinda work very well.
And if you look at where the Brits were then and where they are now might not work out very well in the long run either.
Arrrrgh and Alas me mateys. Ship's being overrun with scabs and the skipper'n the crows' nest drunk'n the rum again.