FC were in a bind - they really hadn't had serious day time raids to deal with since 1940 and so you had a lot of day fighters sitting out there. When the Battle of the Atlantic was at its height, Rommel was chasing the 8th Army up and down the N African coast , the Russians were dying in hundreds of thousands and the Far East was a complete disaster the pressure to "DO SOMETHING" was immense
So if the Luftwaffe wouldn't come to us we'd go to the Luftwaffe - unfortunately we didn't have quite the right kit. But looking back better to find that out in 1942 than in 43/44.................