BillieBob
How many FTOs have sims Level D A320 or similar?
About the renewals you can do it in UK and then send a form via mail. You can also change your licence form DGAC to the CAA.
No airlines are routinely hiring low-hours pilots to jet positions with the exception of the CTC/Easyjet programme
You have check a bit a about that starting by LTE, Iberworld, Vueling has taken pilots fron there. And dont tell me that it is easer to find a job without a type rating that with it. If you are right I dont know why there is UK pilots doinf that without a job here.
Consider also that you will have to sit exams set directly from the Central Question Bank - the CAA employs two full-time experts whose main task is to translate the raw CQB questions into understandable English before including them in UK set exams.
Have you see them? I dont think that they are that bad.