RAF to no longer supply search and rescue

[meladdo]

Search and rescue operations to be farmed out  Why make RAF personnel redundant and give search and rescue contract to a private company?

70 years of RAF service in this area and now its not good enough?

This government know the cost of everything and the value of nothing - at least on face value - whichever way you look at it its a billion plus going out of the country...

[benyeats]

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whichever way you look at it its a billion plus going out of the country...
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I am not sure about whichever way.  I can think of a way where the rescue staff, ground support staff and so on are all paid and taxed in the UK which comes from that billion plus.

Note, that is not a comment on the process of outsourcing the service, I don't have a strong opinion on that, but is another way to look at it.