When an organisation with a good safety management system, properly managed and resourced, goes through a period where the rationale for setting up the safety management system is forgotten about, it sees "safety" as having no added value. If the safety culture is then cut to save costs, it isn't the suits doing the cutting that pay the price. As they say, if you think safety is expensive, try having an accident.
Sorry Safeware, but this is bull****. You make it sound like a long period of safe operations has somehow caused complacency. A period where the rationale for having a SMS is for forgotten about ? But every year the SofS makes the statement about being at least as safe as the civil world etc etc, that's not forgetting or seeing safety as having no added value. Safety Culture is not something you can talk about cutting, it can be lost or broken, but you can't decide to cut your safety culture safety culture by say 50%.
This is an organisation that has wilfully and systematically gone down the route of underfunding safety and airworthiness. This is an organisation that has not been able to achieve that SofS safety objective for many years.
As for your previous claims that the MoD's processes are adequate, and that it is only the implementation that is failing. Sorry mate, have to disagree, it's an effing shambles. It needs taking apart and rebuilding, the people, the processes, everything. Nothing less is now acceptable.
Safety_Helmut