Perhaps a name change is in order?

Instead of the dreadfully militaristic "Royal Navy", perhaps something less likely to distress those who look forward to a world free of British interference . . . maybe the "Royal Civil Service, Maritime Branch"? How about the "Royal We'll Stay Out Of Your Way Service"? Maybe the "Royal 'Don't Mind Us, We're Just Passing Through Your International Waterways' Service"?

Nick Packwood finds it all too absurd:

Directly related: Admirals now outnumber warships in what I will laughingly describe as the Royal Navy, 78% of the UK electorate (i.e. the British) believes Britain's Armed Forces are "dangerously over-stretched" while Daniel Hannan states the blindingly obvious (and it needs to be said): Rebuild the Navy or risk another Falklands war.

Blindingly obvious, that is, to everyone including not only our enemies at home and abroad but to the treasonous swine charged with the defence of the realm and whose only passion is the will to decline. One imagines some feeble Götterdämmerung on permanent loop at Downing Street and in all the smart places the left congregates, praying for an opportunity to surrender to the men with the scimitars and relishing the thought of their enemies — us — paying for our temerity to think we could delay the inevitable.

Slightly related . . . a report from back in April that the RN were enjoined from engaging the enemy for fear that any prisoners would be allowed to claim refugee status in Britain.