Good comment, Keef! Agree with you 100%.
From a retired military pilot - certainly not an Air Marshal - who is entirely happy with the UK IMC Rating.
In any case, after a career of flying down to the limits 99% of the time manually, I have no intention of operating my little SEP aircraft down to 200 ft DH on nasty days. These days I go flying/instructing/examining for pleasure, not pain! But my JAR-FCL ATPL does not have the earlier 'automatic IMC' privileges of the old UK ATPL, so I do have to fly an IMC revalidation test every couple of years.