But, Lord Farley of Harrier Hall neglects to mention that these opposing concepts will be irrelevant when the CTOL version is the only one procured!
We have plenty of examples of reasons to distrust UK avionics systems, but we should be cautious about expecting every US platform to be as successful as the F-16. This is, after all, the nation that brought us the world's first self-jamming bomber (B-1B), the ARGGH-64, and others.
And why we should assume that the production JSF (whose price is pegged so low) will have avionics two generations ahead of even the F-16/60, let alone EF is beyond me. This will be cheap and cheerful.