One of the reasons the Brits hate contractors is that as a generalisation UK contractors are made up of failed Servicemen who have left because they either did not succeed on the promotion ladder or they saw more opportunity outside. MFTS is a classic case of this where it is filled with ex-RAF bods with deply held views of how training should be done (ie the RAF way) and heavily influenced by their old RAF bosses. But SERCO, Babcock etc are just the same.