Whether or not Lord West is right that it's barking mad to have a light blue officer running the show, I'd say it's at least East Ham (one stop short of Barking) that we've ended up with the following:
1. No shore-based MPA to protect the assets
2. RN with only 6 attack submarines to protect the carriers and do all their other tasks
3. Too few RN surface ships to protect the carriers etc
4. Going for a deadweight lift fan ac and thereby imposing the associated ski-jump configuration on these 2 v expensive targets. Therefore:
i) No embarked fixed-wing MPA or ASW assets
ii) No embarked AWACS, AAR or EW/ELINT ac
iii) No possibility of CoD
Woof, woof.