"Have you not read the CAA FAQ Q11 re the BCPL and forthcoming changes?"
Which state all BCPL (unrestricted) will become UK CPL (and thus have inbuilt IMC privileges) and thus in due course will convert to EASA CPLs.
So am I correct in thinking that those BCPLs (unrestricted) holders who upgraded their BCPL to JAR CPL by obtaining sufficient training in a complex type (a type that they had never flown in and in all probability never will do) and then passed a CPL LPC in the same complex type with a CAA examiner.
They did this in order to obtain a JAR CPL because the written information at the time stated that if they did not do so then there would be no upgrade path in the future and would in given a EASA PPL even though they once passed the valid for life UK CPL theoretical exams.
So they have in fact wasted the best part of 4 grand or in part time flying instructor wages their income for the next two years. For a licence that they will now be given for nothing.