Indeed DV, it took a 700 year old institution to tell one which has yet to make its first century, "There is something wrong with your bloody aircraft". It has yet to recognise that fact and to take the necessary remedial action.
As tuc continually reminds us, rearranging the deck chairs by rewriting the regs is not the answer. All that is required is to implement the old ones, but that would require admitting why they were scrapped in the first place, and who it was who scrapped them. The RAF can go on protecting the VSOs responsible, or it can move towards regaining its airworthiness. It can't do both.