Tonka
Attempting to, and failing, to conduct a level of repair that you are not cleared to do – thereby compromising safety and risking loss of the asset - is not quite the same as finding faults on acceptance from an authorised repairer; but your point is taken.
I agree with your sentiments about the workforce, many of whom will in the past have uprooted and moved to, for example, St Athan. I do indeed think fondly of these workshops, but then in blacker moments remember more recent times when they were run by some real non-entities. I’ve said this before – I’ll never forget the idiot at Fleetlands who declined a huge amount of work, declaring “We do not regard MoD(PE) as a customer”. Perhaps with better leadership they wouldn’t be in this situation, although the politics would probably win out in the end either way.