G-SPOT;
You have just written what so many of us were thinking. In fact PPRune "armchair expertry" was much discussed during our last CRM course, and the possibility that someone, somewhere is going to take advice from a couple of the posters here and find out the hard way that the advice is at best flawed and at worse lethal.
A chat with our local ATC was illuminating. If a pilot continues an approach and lands below the minima published in the UKAIP (not a pilot calculation from JEPP/AERAD/Gcap or whatever) then an MOR will be filed as required in MATs Part 1 for ALL aerodromes within the UK.
Ergo Absolute minima are laid down by AIP, and are then adopted into the plates by the publishers. There are NO lower minima.
SND
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