Also, Pilot DAR, worth remembering that the typical British summer serves up lots of overcast/broken at 1500, tops at 2000 kind of weather, surface temperature 15-20 deg, so icing isn't a problem. In North America you are much less likely to be in IMC where icing isn't a factor, so a non-deiced single (which most are) would indeed be a bad option. Here, there is plenty of the year where a non-deiced single is still a useful IFR machine.
Tim