CFI, I agree completely with you, your apology?
Skyvan, thank you for inviting me to reply to your request for information. Sure yiu can convert your colonial ATPL to our CPL, but you will be required to sit the technical exams, and pass the GFT. You will then have to pay the licence issue fees etc. You will get a UK instructor rating on the strength of your overseas one, after a test of course, the UK is the only first world country I know of that recognises overseas instructors, so there are good points in our system. It maybe worth considering for you as the technical exams are quite a bit simplier than the navs. You should be able to pick up an AFI position here, it all depends on whether you consider it worth it as they are usually rather poorly paid. Maybe WWW can point you in the direction of a decent flying school to approach, he appears to have his finger on the pulse of UK schools.