The pilot as in any situation is best placed to determine whether a flight is safe or not. Not some politician or Quango leader who has no aviation experience whatsover and is more intent on watching his/ her back or lining his or her colleagues hands in gold.
I'd be interested in your attitude to the effects of VA on the medium term safety of the aircraft. That is, in a few weeks time when you are not aboard but the effect of your decision is going to affect the reliability of the aircraft.
Or the affect on profitability over the longer term that results in UK/European aircraft not being economical to run due to VA damage?
(Not that any of this seems to have surfaced so far and it's academic as we have taken the decision to run the experiment).