I think you'll find, Bismark, that a large number of the kills achieved by the SHARs were post attack and the AD provided was necessarily limited by the distance from deck to CAP. To provide a reasonable outer defence the SHARs would have needed to CAP to the West of West Falkland. Having said that, everyone acknowledges how much better the AD would have been a few years earlier whilst the old Ark with F4s was in service.
Although you aimed your AD comment at Jacko, you cannot be serious about relying on the EU for air defence of UK. If that situation ever comes about I am emigrating!