Dervish
Hear! Hear!
There are too many people "wishing upon a star" on what might have been; the same type of rose bespectacled variety as those that dream on about TSR2 for many years to come.
I, for one, was glad when MRA4 was canx'd as, from what I heard within Air Cmd and DE&S, it had all the trappings of being another "widow maker"...
...quite simply, as others have put, we had not learned the lessons from earlier losses.
Chug
The only problem I can find with your argument is could anyone ever be truly independent? If you use an organisation it will have to be paid for - that way it can be corrupted. If it is provided for free then it can be corrupted between Govt Depts and politicing. If done for free, as a charity organisation then it probably won't be run as well as it should (unless it's a Trust and then they'll take home £70k a year and a free Vulcan T-Shirt
). So I would welcome your view on how to make it
truly independant?
B Word