Fuji, you are probably confusing meetings. Timmy's quote has nothing to do with our EASA meeting.
At the meeting AOPA et al. had with Eric Sivel earlier in the week, I made it abundantly clear that, in my opinion, the final FCL.008 memorandum did not represent stakeholder opinion with regard to the IMC rating. That has now been positively confirmed
de facto by David's statement.
It is clear that both EAS and IAOPA both support the UK IMC rating.
Unfortunately there are some individuals who continue to obfuscate and to throw smearing allegations at others, whilst making no worthwhile contribution of any material benefit whatsoever themselves. Sad, but true. But they can, of course, be ignored. And should be. I'm not a bible-basher by any means, but Matthew 7 vv3-5 spring to mind:
And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's
Whether EASA comes up with a so-called 'more easily attainable PPL / IR' is
nihil ad rem. What is of much greater importance is that the UK IMC rating must continue to be acceptable in UK airspace, at the very least.