Regarding about NATS, this was discussed here in this forum, and several people displayed support for NATS privatization, which in my humble view this is dangerous.
If this is what’s going on, this is the price of “privatizing” services which it is the government obligation to run.
If aviation safety is nowadays “hanging” on the eventual profits of very greedy individuals, better stay home, because if someone goes trough some heavy hail, possibly only pieces of an aircraft will emerge from the cloud base, for the sake of their profits, of course.
Mercurius