Nobody wants to see BAE employees on the dole but I felt the same way about the poor folk who worked for MG Rover (formerly owned by BAe). Despite their best efforts, the product just wasn't competitive any more due to a lack of commitment by management. As a parallel, I know there are a lot of talented and dedicated people at BAE, who strive to get the product out on budget and schedule. However the corporate entity that is BAE Systems has consistently let this country and it's defences down and we simply cannot indulge another half-arsed, nebulous BAE project when the obvious answer is to buy something that has been clearly shown to be fit-for-purpose and available within the schedule and budget.
Survey the (literal) wreckage of MRA4 and the 25 year exercise in depressingly regular disappointment that has been Eurofighter and try to extol to the nation that paying BAE to bastardise a product that still isn't working as advertised in it's original form is a good idea.