""A better idea would be to fund this year's display costs out of confiscated banker's bonuses.""
Except that HMG has decided that as the bonuses are "contractual" they cannot prevent the payment of these rewards for failure. Funnily I always thought that a bonus was dependent upon satisfactory performance and proportional to the profit generated, but hey, thats probaly why I never went into the City.
FWIW I think that there is merit, if the country could afford it, in absorbing the Vulcan into an enhanced RAF Memorial Flight. It is significantly popular with the public; could be seen as a fitting airborne memorial to everyone who served in the Falklands campaign; and it looks as if the bulk of the necessary engineering work has been done to keep it going for a few years, so why not? The flip side of course is that the country cannot afford it - largely due to the cost of Bankers' foul-ups.