Chug we are agreed! Thanks also to SW and squid - pertinent observations both. But are you really saying that no-one can define exactly whom should be running this show? Certainly, no-one has fessed up in court!
Is it too much to ask that, after the Herc and Nimrod Inquests, the MoD (in its broadest sense) agree as to whom the responsibility falls to make our ac safe for operations in war?
It certainly seems that they
still cannot do so and as a result, perhaps it is now time to take the 'toys away from the children' and impose an independent and over-seeing MAA.
Personally, I'd like to nominate Tucumseh as the CEO of the new UK MAA.
Also, it would be fanastic to see the face of his previous boss - who sounds like 'a right one' who can't even spell the words 'safety'...... nor 'integrity'!
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