British Foreign Policy

Britain never used to need a foreign policy because it ruled all of the foreign countries anyway. This ended after the Second World War when the Empire was lost. Since then, Britain's foreign policy has consisted of three strands. The first is to do everything possible to annoy the French. The second is to do as little as possible to annoy all the countries that used to be in the Empire to make up for all the terrible things they did in the past. The third is to provide a fig-leaf of international respectability to the Americans whenever they want to start a war. This makes Britain one of the most popular members of the International Community.