If the Admiralty Board is feeling envious of the RAF then it must indeed be in a bad way. This forum is littered with news of station after station closing down, whole fleets and capabilities disappearing, and a continuing and worsening scandal involving the cover up of the loss of that most basic requirement of any air force, the very airworthiness of its aircraft! The latter is, I admit, a particular hobby horse of mine but no less real for all that.
If the outlook for the RN is worse than that then I would counsel not envy nor prejudice but reflection. For that is what I would advise for the RAF, if ever it wanted my advice! The scandal that I mentioned above was a self inflicted injury, as is the continuing cover up of it. Unless and until it is faced up to things will only get worse for the RAF.