When did we have the stealth increase in the size of the RAF to bring it up to 5th biggest in the world?
He's also wrong about 1914 - the RFC mustered a grand total of about 100 aircraft of all types by the end of the year, and the RNAS wasn't much better off - certainly not 200 fighters. And the RAF has been lower than 200 fighters on other occasions - unless you're very slack with the accounting and include inter-war army co-operation types and bombers as 'fighters'...
You'll also note that the article mentions things about meetings to discuss various proposals, which suggests that these aren't as definite or as clear cut as the paper wishes us to believe?