Where did the money come from for all this?
188 Shackletons? That's rather a lot of 27L V12 engines burning a boatload of (highly refined) gas.
There must have been a couple of thousand aircrew for that many aircraft, not to mention airfields and all the support infrastructure.
Shacks were contemporaneous with V-Bombers, Canberras, Hunters etc, of which there was a thousand or more.
The RAF's budget must have been ridiculous in those days. Same for the Royal Navy with a dozen or more capital ships and escorts aplenty, not to mention the FAA.