RAB is, if not actually dead, very nearly dead. It's being eliminated under a new set of accounting proceedures, called IIRC, Single Line of Sight or something (not the world's most interesting subject.)
Anyway, it means that the cost of storing the airframes would have been the cost of heating the sheds and keeping them secure.
Not £210m per annum.
MRA4 was dead as a doorknob as soon as the PM personally announced it - to backtrack would've been too embarrassing, as he is about to find out on his so-called fair fuel tax stabiliser.
Vale, Nimrod and Coastal. You both deserved better.
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