Slug, just what illegal subtance are you using? Or is it just a regimental tradition?
Get up to date mate, you are woefully behind the times. The RAF is reducing. In case you had missed it, which you obviously have, it is already down from 50000, and it hasn't been at 50000 for some time. The current figure is 46K and that is set to reduce to about 41K with the next round of redundancies. It is possible/probable, under MTWS that it will reduce to 35K in the future. Get over it. There may only be 1400 pilots in the RAF (actually there are quite a few more than that) but there are, of course, air traffic controllers, fighter controllers, police, regiment, PEd staff, engineers, MT drivers, ops personnel, int personnel, radar technicians, caterers (sorry if I forgot anybody) as well as the Admin Staff in the RAF. And a large percentage of the admin branch are going thanks to JPA!! A bit more knowledge might be useful before you start slinging incorrect statements around!
Not quite sure what you have aginst the Harrier, maybe one scared you when you were a child, but it is set to stay in service for another 10 years or so BECAUSE THERE IS NOTHING TO REPLACE IT IN ITS ROLE!!
And if they are that useless why has the Det in Kandahar just been extended? And if it that much rubbish why are the USMC still flying them and planning to continue to do so? Perhaps you need a little bit more study into the role of Air Power and a bit less time defending the use of the war horse!!
As for RW you are right, hand the Apaches over to the RAF, along with the Sea Kings and Lynx and we will look after it all for you. At least we can get it into service a bit quicker and perhaps buy some missiles that you can fire from all of the pylons.
Just where are the AAC and FAA going to recruit all these pilots from? The "truckies" are all leaving for the civil airline world already. Neither the FAA or AAC can train enough pilots for their own meagre, limited fleets and as the planners in M OD have already found out to their cost you cannot charter long-range AT when you want to fly into hot areas and nobody in the civil world does Tac AT!!
Finally does the RN or the Army require its own medical branch? If the answer is yes then why doesn't the RAF?