Tourist:-
..."avoid all avoidable accidents at all costs and sod OC", and the returns are now not worth the effort.
The aim of RAF Flight Safety has always been to
try to avoid all avoidable accidents in order to
maintain Operational Capability. Your imagined quote is utter nonsense, so no surprise there. Similarly with Air Safety, it is also utter nonsense to imply that Airworthiness is the enemy of Operational Capability, for that is the role of Unairworthiness.
This is where your proposition founders. The reason an elderly US aircraft (which has been miraculously zero lifed we are told) is standing forlorn and neglected in the rain at Waddington isn't because of MAA Airworthiness zealots, because there are none. The MAA doesn't do Airworthiness, it doesn't know how to, thanks to the deliberate destruction of UK Military Airworthiness Provision. That aircraft is the cost of that malevolence, as was MR2, as was MRA4, as was HC3. It isn't the cost of the aircraft that is the problem, but the cost of ineptness. The jobsworths that are often quoted as the unacceptable face of airworthiness are merely a sign of that endemic ineptness.
The whole MAA structure has to be rebuilt, outwith the MOD and under a civilian DG. Many of those who got us where we are now still inhabit the MAA and have to be got rid of. The old Regulations have to be regained and built upon to ensure a firm foundation upon which airworthiness provision can be reformed. The inevitable cost will not be because of airworthiness but because of the lack of it, so blame those who caused that, prosecute them and even bankrupt them in order to help pay for it. If airworthiness is not regained then OC will suffer, it certainly wont be enhanced!
In the meantime UK Military Airworthiness will remain heavily compromised, and the SoS will be kept busy signing off waiver after waiver. He is about to do so for RJ I expect, for it seems that the paperwork, that alfred so confidently expects to catch up with it, was eaten by the dog. I wouldn't advise the SoS to say so though when he makes his 'courageous' statement to the HoC, which will of course reveal the MAA to be the toothless dog that it really is (so it couldn't have been the one that ate it, could it?).