Was this thread not about the closure of Lyneham. There is a dedicated thread about A400M.
Cancelling A400M will not provide any money for other capabilities, it will just go towards reducing the current deficit.
Eggs in one basket???...The cold war ended in the 1990s, there is one airbase that is under constant threat and that place has more aircraft on one site including ins and outs than the whole of the UK RAF inventory. When Al Qaida get hold of JP233 and a Tornado, then maybe we should get worried about denial of our runways.