I don't understand what the fuss is about
Yes we ordered 232 donkey's years ago but we don't need that many now. Simple really. If you replaced every Jag and F3 1 for1 you would only need about 150, not to mention the increased capability/reliablity blah, therefore probably requiring less for the same capability.
A bit of a none story surely. Why buy jets we don't need when the rest of defence is bleating for money, and we keep getting told "people first" so the money has to come from somewhere.
robbing peter to pay paul again but so what, better that than 100 surplus eurofighter at £65M a pop.