DV:-
I believe that the TOLERABLE and ALARP standard set out by the MAA is so subjective that Duty Holders choose to state whether it is or isn't depending on how they feel.
And therein lies the rub. Civilian operators would long ago have had strap hanging passengers, a la train commuters, if they were free to regulate themselves. No doubt it would have been justified by some acronym or other and dressed up with fanciful and dubious statistics. It wouldn't matter much what people thought anyway as they would be their own judge and jury. That is exactly the case with the MOD and its "independent" Regulator the MAA (and its "independent" Investigator the MilAAIB, or whatever it's called this week).
Grounding, or "pausing" fleets (the Hawk T2's now?) is not the answer. The answer to all these airworthiness related fatal air accidents, whether actual or potential, is a truly independent Regulator and Investigator of the operator (the MOD) and of each other. Unless and until that happens avoidable military airworthiness related air accidents will go on happening relentlessly.
Self Regulation Doesn't Work and in Aviation It Kills!