Although I firmly believe we should be spending more on our forces, not less, I agree with Airpolice and his sentiments pertaining to budget management..
Just because you are saving money before April through fuel, maintenance etc, it doesn't mean you have to spend some of that saving on a new paint job.
Although budgets don't usually 'carry over', spending some money on frivolous things (paint job) when you have just managed to save it elsewhere is rather a rather myopic way of looking at budgeting.
Nowhere in his post did Airpolice say he was against the flypast, merely that it may be a bit OTT to repaint aircraft for this one flight before 'scrapping' them.
By the way having said that as a civvy tax payer, (ex FAA) in this particular instance I'd be in favour of the paintjob, even if it is a Crab paint scheme
