About time
You can only sell the Crown Jewels once but these are not the Crown Jewels. I would hate to be the one to write up the Business Case for this. The Cost Benefit analysis would be very contentious. I have never understood how the RAFAT contributes to Defence. Is it really such a necessary recruiting tool? and would Waste of Space not sell other sharp pointy wizz jets if the tax payer did not fund the red stuff. Even if Waste of Space did adopt the team with 100% sponsorship the tax payer would still foot the bit through the overhead recovery element of their priceing structure.
In these austere times my vote would be to get rid!
If a choice had to be made between RAFAT and BBMF. it would be BBMF for me everytime.