Just to add my two pennies worth,
why not relocate lyneham and brize A/C to Cyprus set up a civvy contract for flying them in and then ship the frieght to limassol and truck it to akrotiri.
No more brize you just check in at heathrow get all your op kit from aki stores and as the SBA'a means we can do what we want day or night the herc chaps can do all there tactical stuff to there hearts content.
We have the infrastructure and loads of rooms. I might put in a gems today and explain to the treasury that if we stopped LOA we could almost make money!