1. Government allows UK design leadership to atrophy over many years, turns us into subcontractor to the world, lacks the balls to craft a positive UK-led way forward that shows faith in the UK aviation industry and fails to back the industry in the way that other counties like France support theirs = moan.
2. Government shows signs of responding to that, finally and unexpectedly growing a pair and backing UK industry with a proposal involving UK design leadership of a UK-driven Typhoon replacement, on a timeframe that reflects Typhoon OoS = still moan.
Sic transit PPRuNe.
I'm pleased and cautiously encouraged to see this development. I also fully expect that this early concept will evolve somewhat over time, and acknowledge that a lot of difficult water will pass under the bridge before it gets anywhere near IOC.