it is a very dangerous game making statements such as these (and I could refer you to quite a few more) if you were never able to carry them out
No. These statements are quite harmless. They commit to nothing. The "dangerous game" is the one you are playing, which, through some combination of naivety and/or optimism, is to clutch at any straw and convince yourself that someone has committed to "saving the IMCr".
some of the group experts were in favor to develop a similar rating as the UK national IMC rating
What do you extract from that, other than some people thought it was a good idea? Didn't the AOPA UK representative on MDM032 present a proposal for the IMCr and have it firmly rejected by that group? So the minority views of "some group experts" did not prevail.
This is what our Government said with the full knowledge of the CAA and the DTi. No mention there that the priviliges on the IMC rating holder could not be protected.
And no mention that they would, either. It simply is a loose reference to the FCL008 ToR's.
EASA has agreed to establish a rulemaking group to consider proposals for a similar rating at the European level
That is the UK government wording, and not the wording of the EASA ToRs. It depends on what you interpret by "similar" and its usage here is perhaps misleading. Why do you need to look to some paragraph from the government on FCL008's ToRs, when they have been published in full in the public domain for a year now and the same point (FCL008 is not mandated to save the IMCr) has been repeated endlessly to you. How do you think this is helping the IMCr cause?
If the UK government believed that FCL008 was tasked with saving the IMCr, then no doubt it's own representative on FCL008, from the UK CAA, would have filed a minority report to this effect and objected to any breach in the terms of reference. Why don't you ask them, since you are relying on this government paragraph?
Anyway as I have said before discussion is a complete waste of time
If you think the discussion is a waste of time, then take your own advice and stop posting on the subject. But if you post, I will reply when and if it takes my fancy.
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you dont know what you are talking about anymore than most other people
I don't claim to be any more or less informed or authoritative than any other poster on PPRUNE, which is an informal discussion forum and not some international aviation court room.