With all due respect, I don't think the issues raised here are tired.
There are many threads in this forum, and others, which relate to directly to Mull of Kintyre. Take for example todays press report on the BOWMAN fiasco, in which the MoD are panned because they did not maintain configuration control on their vehicles. On BOWMAN this "only" cost time and money, but look at tucumseh's post above and you'll see the link. But on aircraft the effect of poor configuration control is a compromised airworthiness clearance. Maybe one day the powers that be will take an holistic view of all these incidents and come to the obvious conclusion. Lack of funding and poor practices are putting lives at risk. In this respect Creamer is right.
There is far more to this, and nearly 13 years on the same old problems occur.
May I suggest that, far from tired, these are fundamental issues.
Regards