An accurate and worthy article, so don't know why you are banging your head over it FlexGate.
Pilot cadets are afforded precisely diddly-squat in the way of student recognition in the UK.
Airlines' HR departments are turning into profit making centres and won't invest in their employees' training.
EU VAT laws are interpreted in the UK differently to pretty much every other EU country, meaning we pay VAT on all aspects of training, while other countries only impose it on certain elements, or not at all.
The upshot? UK PLC will simply decamp to other EASA-regulated countries with lower oversight charges and the once highly respected UK flight training industry will be conisgned to the history books.