Well, as much as I think we should all get together and make ourselves heard, that fact is that the CAA do NOT want people to become pilots and they do NOT want GA in this country.
In 20 years time when all the small operators have closed, all the airfields have been sold off for property development and everyone (not just the majority) goes abroad to train/fly, we will look back and wonder how it ended up this way.
Certainly in the seven years I have been involved in the UK heli industry I have seen it increasingly become the preserve of the well heeled private owners/pilots, the well heeled self-funded IR pilots, or ex-mil pilots.