Independent Observer - Instead of considering the Triumvirate inept, I think that their actions have been part of a master plan
Surely you are not suggesting that BBC are other than inept? Based upon what? A half assed notion that by buying a conglomeration of companies in an effort to be the largest on shore operator in the UK - hoping that would alone place them in the running?
I am familiar with those companies and individually there is not a one with the capacity to enter the SAR arena, together even less of a chance. What of BBC/LMA? There is absolutely no administrative structure to support itself correctly let alone a grand notion of SAR.
That one concept alone should have warned everyone that this was going to end in tears. BBC were never and never will be, equipped for such a lofty venture, their past history alone specifies that.