PPL in a Twin

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You can be reasonably sure that you will receive proper instruction, regardless of whether it's for MEP or SEP. We've all had that, plus a checkride. So that's not the problem. But from that point onwards you are responsible for maintaining currency. And "currency" means anything from basic motor skills to perform safe landings and other handling, via keeping up to date on legal issues (EASA anyone? But also NOTAMs, flight guides, licenses and other paperwork etc.) to maintaining your medical and maintaining G-tolerance for aerobatics (or simply turbulence).

You've just had three lessons. You will already notice that some of the stuff that was covered in those three lessons will be partially forgotten by the time you start lesson four. Now consider what's going to happen when you've had 25 hours worth of lessons, then not flown for three months or more.

Maintaining not just legal currency (3 landings in the last 90 days to carry passengers) but also your own personal limit with regards to currency, so that you have the feeling that you can handle whatever the plane and the circumstances (ATC, weather, ...) can throw at you, is a major challenge in the long run. Unless you're in a position to fly very regularly, including taking time to perform handling exercises such as stalls and steep turns, and in a twin, asymmetric flight. (And let me tell you up front that very few passengers enjoy riding with you when you practice that sort of stuff, so it's hardly something you can do en-route to somewhere.)

Just out of curiosity, have you done the sums? To maintain reasonably current in a SEP, for VFR flight only, you maybe need 12-15 hours each year. Times 150-200 pounds. For a MEP, you might be looking at a minimum of 20-25 hours annually times, what, 400 pounds? If you can afford to spend at least something like 10.000 pounds of the family budget annually on your hobby, no questions asked, by all means go ahead. But if your budget is less, a MEP rating might not be such a good idea.