I really do despair when people refer to the MAA as a "monster". They are going to be the last thing between us and potentially losing a hell of a lot of people once the cuts REALLY start to bite. Things are pretty unpleasant as they are, with serious scaling back of frontline crews, aircrew being put out to pasture, whilst those remaining struggle to cope with the same level of tasking.
Anyone thinking that holding senior rank and ministers culpable for bone decisions (cuts being one of them) leading to a non-operational loss of aircraft needs their heads feeling!