Then they shouldn't respond. They should refuse the hire.
can you imagine the fall out if they refuse to attend?
the rnli are there to choose whether or not they have to help a boat out at sea, they don't do politics, if someone is in distress in water they will go and attend no questions asked.
the finger of blame is being pointed incorrectly towards the RNLI by some,
we need to remove free legal assistance for those that have their asylum claims rejected, however this then leaves the system with the ability to be abused by the government as they'll have carte blanche to refuse everyone without scrutiny.
its a very difficult problem to fix, and whichever happens someone somewhere will be upset by it.
we cant take the australian route of shooting at them so they turn back,
the french aren't doing everything they can to deter them, as every one that comes over is one less for them to have to deal with. And they dont want the shanty towns in calais and neither should they have to put up with such an uncivilised camp.
both the french and british seem to be unable to stop the smugglers which is the biggest issue of them all, stop them and you stop most of the boats.