Its not an absolute disgrace. It a source of employment to many people and a strategic asset. No different to public investment in many other things such as rail, the HIAL airports, the new Forth bridge, the Edinburgh trams, the A9 duelling, et all. It is an investment in the future. It is hardly surplus to requirements given all the aircraft operating today. It generates millions of £ into the West of Scotland economy which more than compensates for the current losses, and which would be an employment wilderness if it and the thousands of jobs around it were not to be there. So take your agenda elsewhere.