Bastardeux,
I try to use language as precisely as my limited skills allow. In response to your:
".Are you therefore, suggesting it would be okay to abdicate our responsibilities and free-ride on the resources of others..."
I would ask you to reread my comment "with a proportionate response from those effected" and try to decide for yourself if I was advocating freeloading.
Rereading my comment - "Having said all that, I actually think the UK should get back into the MPA/MMA game" - might also be of some help........
I'm afraid I have to agree with TOFO - this thread is going nowhere fast!