have a look at Alan Turnbull's
www.secret-bases.co.uk and see how many ex RAF bases are still in use by "someone else" but still called RAF *****xyz and then tell me we will not be shutting them, so we pick one of what we have left and close it down just after spending a fortune on it, sell it at a loss and then spend more than we saved trying to shoehorn everyone in elsewhere.
politics - don't you just love it.