Sometime back in 2000-and-a-long-time-ago, some one started a thread in over in the flying training forum about global economics and what it meant for pilot recruitment. It went on for years and thousands of posts.
It's probably still there if you wish to waste a few hours looking for it.
And that that awesome feat of internetism proved one thing beyond all reasonable doubt.
Aviators know **** all about economics.
Let's not turn this thread into a rerun...pretty please.
There are highly decorated economists that don't really have a clue how this is all going turn out...let alone bottom-of-the-class-fatboy-at-the-back politicians.
The idea of politicians "encouraging" industry to give pay raises...seriously. Anyone who has ever sat in a boardroom, knows that is just media vomit for the masses.
Suffice to say there ain't no money unless the RAF does something pretty drastic. One way or the other...we don't have too long to wait until we know for sure the end game.