DFM, what do your bullet points refer to??
I made a poor "assumption" in an earlier post in that this was clearly a capability holiday, not a permanent gap, as it wouldn't make any sense to gap such a capability in a maritume nation. I'm obviously wrong with this "assumption," as you don't get £2Bn in savings removing the Nimrod by tendering for and introducing a new MR(A) aircraft, so they obviously have no intention of introducing any new maritime roled aircraft into the inventory.
Finally the media appear to be grasping and reporting the fact that we have already spent £3.5Bn on the Nimrod, and that all we are going to get for it is a few razor blades. Now all we need is for them to actually twig that this is in fact a bad thing, and a criminal waste of money... give it a few months....