dysag: Q: who said... “a decision we (=UK will) regret for many years (the biggest) blunder of all”.
A: That, too, was GRE, re. VC.7/V.1000 (D.Wood, Project Cancelled,P97)
Q: But who said: weight “would prevent (V.1000) providing required payload/ range.”
Q: Who said: “cancelled (as) I could not find a customer. BOAC did not want (/RAF) could not afford it”.
A1: H.Wynn, (Official) History of RAF Transport Command: Forged in War,HMSO,96,P96. A2: MoS R.Maudling,P62,Memoirs,Sidgwick,78.
There's always a good reason for Ministers to cancel, and incur tabloid odium at "waste".