Agree entirely with you. We do need a decision and accordingly we are completely screwed!
Actually I think that we needed a decision about 3 years ago........... A330 will deliver the goods but A400M is just going to be another world of procurement pain TFN. Why do we need a transport aircraft when instead we have the opportunity for Brown and his idiotic crowd of useless cronies to make a grand Euro gesture instead of properly resourcing the Armed Forces for what they are doing now.