Trim Stab,
Your grasp of English must be good enough to realise that writing statements such as
maybe just to cover poor dispatch rates of GR4
immediately implies to visiting readers (journos perhaps) that the GR4 goes u/s a lot in HERRICK. You are in no position to know whether that is true - so it's not your place to comment on it. Perhaps if you'd said something even subtly different like "maybe just to cover
possible poor dispatch rates of GR4" then you wouldn't have provoked the reaction you did! Anyway, it's SOP anti-Tornado banter that dates from the GR1 days; the jet has moved on in serviceability and capability, the banter needs to catch up!