WE ARE a community
Yes but you are very much a very small minority.
If one acepts that the current IMC is a realistic way of operating regular IFR flights then one has to accept that the ICAO IR and the FAA IR and the JAA IR are all way beyond the required standard for safe operation IFR IMC.
The trick is convincing everyone that is the situation because if you can't show that then the majority will continue to see the IMC rating as something that they do not want on their patch (which is now all of Europe).
Just look at BEagle's reaction to a local French rating and imagine all the other pilots in the rest of Europe (as well as some in the UK) having that reaction to the IMC.
The argument that you need the rating because the weather in Europe is not good enough for regular VFR flying gets you no where.
Regards,
DFC