Nicely put Charley.
It's going to be the same with maintenance staff - If the conditions aren't right they'll walk at the first oportunity and the RAF will have to put more blokes into it or lose the AOC and/or 145/M Approvals.
In the end it will be another RAF maintenance drain by paying extra for the use of the aircraft and losing more and more manpower to the scheme.
If the pay AND conditions aint right the blokes wont move. Talk to anyone, inside or out, there's no "vocational" reason to do this, in these economically sensitive times, anymore.
There will never be a shortage of RAF volunteers as they will always see it a a way to earn a ticket and move to civvy street, like many of the pilots.