If whoever deleted the original thread, or rather whoever it was who dictated that it should be deleted, had let it run its course, the banter would have ground to a halt and the disgust at the Staish's new policy would have become little more than crewroom whinges. After all how many jibes can the blunties make about aircrew being too fat to fit into their blues or too tight to buy new kit and conversely how many jibes can aircrew make about blunties being jealous, bitter and twisted? And how many times can we all say that this was a misguided if not idiotic policy decision. However, in deleting the original thread this subject and the conspiracy theories surrounding it will (I hope) run and run.
Maybe 'the powers that be' might see that they are not all powerful and that their realm of authority does not stretch as far as they like to think.