just another jockey - I'm aware of pipelines times etc, but Joe Public isn't.
Perhaps the spectre of not seeing 9 red Hawks doing their thing during the summer will be the 'lightbulb going on' moment for the great unwashed and as such the only means by which a message regarding the wholesale destruction of this country's military capability can be put across.
'We' know it'd be a token gesture but does the average 'The Sun' reader?