Evalu8ter,
I agree with your sentiments, but you have the wrong target in your sights.
The UK has used its FJs again and again. Jags, Harriers and Tornados.
Typhoon promises to be more maintainable, more supportable, with lower operating costs and better deployability.
And promising better versatility, and better A-A and A-G capabilities too.
We need FJs, and lots of them - a 12-13 squadron FJ force isn't big enough to do another Granby, even, and can't really sustain today's more modest enduring commitments.
All the really big money has been spent on Typhoon, and buying more of them is little more than a matter of their marginal cost (the unit production price of about £42 m) and saves us from cancellation penalties.
But we do need tankers, SH, recce, an R1 replacement, SEAD and more useful weapons, so how to pay for them?
Cancel the carriers and you get £4 Bn that hasn't yet been spent, and probably £50 m per JSF, too.