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'2 huge aircraft carriers instead of multiple small ones which would have been more flexible and harder to sink '

Multiple small carriers would be less effective, you'd need more manpower per aircraft sortie because you don't get the benefits of scale. This means you either can't do everything you require or you sail them around in a convoy at which point it's no harder to sink two than it is one.

'less capability to fly fast jets than HMS Hermes '

Hermes was very marginal at operating fast jets, I have a graph that tells you how much height you'll lose off the end of the deck in a Buccaneer before you're going fast enough to climb away. It would not be allowed today.

'The idiot that signed up to have a foreign and frankly incapable jet'

It's ~15-20% British, which isn't far off Tornado. If you can find a jet that doesn't run out of fuel you're really on to something, vectoring in flight is over-rated and certainly wasn't used in the Falklands, it can now fly near Thunderstorms since the fuel tank inerting system was signed off as fit for purpose, there's no directly comparable Russian aircraft they'd let us buy so no idea where you're getting the comparative cost from, obviously an aircraft that hasn't been in combat yet won't be as proven as one that has, but then by that logic we'd still be flying Sopwith Camels, and it carries twice as much, twice as far, twice as fast as the Harrier.

'The idiot that made them non-nuclear should be hung'

So you'd want the UK to develop a suitable reactor, submarine ones not being that good an idea as the French have found out. Not to mention the additional training burden for the extra nuclear qualified personnel, extra infrastructure to bring a nuclear powered ship into Portsmouth, etc. etc. Not to mention the additional up front costs which could have made the project untenable.

'The idiot that signed to have the jets serviced by Italy and Turkey rather than the UK'

The UK could service the jets, and indeed will service the avionics, but decided that spending $1 Billion on an engine overhaul centre when they'd be three others in Europe wasn't the best use of money.

But you know, keep it up, I'm sure you'll get something right.