Good to note your banter-detector is on top line, On_Loan!
As (I think) Cazatou wrote earlier, things have now reached the stage where any unforeseen surge requirement would be impossible to meet.
There are virtually no available QFIs in the system free to train additional QFIs, no C&M aerodromes available for emergency reactivation, no fleets of training aircraft in mothballs or available at short notice....
Last time a small surge was needed, some folk were hoiked out of the front line to go to CFS so that the demand for additional new pilots could be met. That meant the front line working a little harder until augmentees filtered through. Conversely, some UAS QFIs went back to the front line during GW1....where are such people now, should the need arise? There aren't any. Which is perhaps just as well as they wouldn't have anything to to fly in any case.
And that was just to train future pilots in the art of big cows, small cows. The problem is far more severe for specialists such as Nimrod rear crew instructors whose experience will be essential when it comes to teaching newcomers, once Cameron's folly has proved to be as such.
I recall the exasperated words of a USN exchange officer on 56(F) back in 1982..."Royal Air Force? Hell, I've known aero clubs with more goddam airplanes!"
I left when I saw the control column starting to move aft and the rudder pedals starting to move. Then watched as the aircraft which was once the RAF departed and went incipient. Now it's in the fully developed spin and people with any experience will be punching out before it's too late...