No more IMC rating

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The fact that the FAA does not also is quite a big factor since the long long long term aim is to integrate the two systems.

Which two systems are we talking about? Are we looking at the demise of a national IMCR in favour of some sort of PPLIR (light)? The impression I get from reading this is that the airlines are listened to and the others are not. What the airlines want they get, which presumably is no amateur pilots flying IFR anywhere near them! So which direction is this going? Are we going to get a general reduction in knowledge and skills requirements across the board for the IR so that it more closely resembles the FAA/IR? The need then for a separate IMCR would disappear as the rating would be much more in reach of the average PPL, as it is in the US.