So Wislon, Healey and the rest of those wretched communists duly obliged.
Possibly true - but it wasn't just commie input that pulled the plug. I recall Mountbatten spouting off along the lines of "four of these for one of those" with ref to the Buccaneer v/s TSR2 on a sales pitch.
Some unsavoury things he may have been but communist probably wasn't among them.