If the MoD needs to play this game, it would be helpful to identify those which might have a military aviation use in a crisis. Geographic dispersion should be one factor to consider. Some of those listed locations are probably now useless for Mil Avn, but some others seem to me to be too valuable to simply discard. NATO infrastructure, such as HAS sites, should surely be preserved along with operating surfaces where long runways exist? As noted, we will never be able to replicate them in the future. Forget the historical connotations ... let’s try to retain some quality alternate airfields against the uncertainty of this Century.
More short-term thinking to address the budgetary crisis, of course.