Sorry guys.
I've got mates on the Jag Force and I know what a great job they do. However, I cannot see how the politicians are going to chop Harrier or GR4. As such I think that Jag has to be the loser. Emotionally this idea doesn't make sense, but politically it does.
Having closed 6 FJ Sqns and 3 ME in order to reflect our realistic pilot strength we will have given the politicains an adequate get-out-of-jail-free-card to pull out of Northern Watch (& possibly Southern, although I doubt it). As such our permanent detachments will be appropriate for the force structure and pilot numbers that we have.