Good reply from MSOCS. Who cares anyway what colour he is, as long as he is super competent at what he meant to be doing? If he isn't, then get another suit in to do it.
Its simply the perception continuing about the project, that this is general British military incompetence that should be worrying. Literally hundreds of comments about this on the newspaper websites and most of them are negative. Gradually this rubs off on people and demoralises them.