FAA IR's are well and good albeit not as indepth as JAA
I can't believe that after all that has been said on this forum about instrument training people still believe this...it is quite absurd...try telling that to the American Airlines pilot at Heathrow! stellair you say you have both, can I ask you, did you really mean that?
And by the way there has never been a fatal accident in the UK attributed to an IMC rating holder exercising his legal priviledges.