Well, it's pretty clear, for a start, that 'genius747's statement that he hopes that his 'friend' get's through is a load of bollox, or he wouldn't have raised the subject in the first place. That aside, one can only agree with KrazyKraut, especially as the CAA is rumoured to be looking increasingly closely at the conduct of JAA flight training in the USA.
It would appear, for example, that it is almost impossible to fail a CPL skill test, unless one is stupid enough to use the wrong FE (there are, of course, only two to choose from). On the evidence of the US-trained product that I and my fellow TRIs have to deal with on a daily basis, it's long past time that the UK CAA got a grip of their self-made disaster area.