Jacko is entitled to his own PoV, there's no need for abuse.
However, as far as a balanced surface fleet goes, if you drop CVF, you have no air cover (no reflection on light-blue, you just can't do it effectively from shore) and no ability to project power ashore. At which point you have no rationale for amphibs, T45 (dangerous cricket balls or not), frigates, deep strike aircraft (of whatever hue), SSN or RFA. Before everybody starts divvying up the RN cake, the same applies across the board.
It's binary time folks. Either we do power projection (for all three services) as SDR rightly justified, but Cyclops never funded, or we get out of anything other than home defence entirely. There is no justifiable in-between, irrespective of our current Asian entanglements. So, AD & maritime strike a/c only, MCMV and/or FPVs, limited number of SH, no real need for AT........where do we want to stop?