Rather than blame Typhoon for everything you could blame the MRA4 programme which was massively late, over budget, still not working and only glossy brochure promises to keep it going.
I think getting rid of an MPRA for an island nation was a terrible idea (I think everyone admits that now) but the real mistake was deciding to replace Nimrod with Nimrod. I would be interested to know what the MOD recommendation was for that.