FB - The CVF/QEC is proceeding because it is needed and supported as part of Force 2020. The cancellation you refer would be for the second ship, NOT the capability. That you actually need two ships to provide anything like a continuous capability is slowly being acknowledged by MoD/Fox, if you read the various statements. The QECs could well end up going turn and turn about as the CVS operated.
Typhoon was/is actually needed. It would be great if it was carrier-capable, but it's not and cannot be made so easily (or more importantly, cheaply). The thing folk should haul aboard is that it is no more or less needed than CVF/QEC. The AD requirement for which it was procured (standfast the add-on strike capability to replace the Jag) then required something pretty capable. The AD requirement now for UK could be performed by OTS FA18 (or even S**R!!), but Typhoon was in procurement and is good for the UK aerospace industry. This is no different from CVF/QEC, just five years earlier. Had the 1980s Typhoon requirement been far-sighted enough to cover carrier-capability, we would all be in a much happier, less expensive place.