Haraka won his bet.
The entire thing was an absurd charade.
Very Blairite actually, and therefore not at all fitting for a celebration of what became called the Battle of Britain in the celebrity cult.
A bloody disgrace, actually. A sham of which the perpetrators ought to be ashamed.
Such a pity, because the Spitfire is a really beautiful aeroplane and really is worthy of celebration, not falsity and Blairite crap.