Tarnished, post 94: “Aeralis represents the “last chance saloon” to retain an aerospace capability in the UK.”
Tarnished, post 99: “I take your opinion re BAES/GCAP/Tempest. I was thinking more of having a production capability that would give the option of an alternative and not leave the UK with a single manufacturer with the monopoly and the leverage to set higher prices.”
That does seem a sudden change of justification, as your original justification was demolished.
Your second point also seems to be fallacious, as there is no evidence BaE and Aeralis would ever be in competition for the same sector of the market - certainly not for Hawk replacement in the required timescale, as they will be instead be ramping up manpower to support Tempest production instead.