TizerTheAppetizer: with +5.5 you will not pass your initial Class 1 examination, specially now they are part of EASA, I don't even think they will give you restricted UK licence, sorry to be the bearer of bad news, even if against odds they did give you class 1, it would be limited to UK AC only, which would make it more or less impossible to get a job with an airline!
Blunt but honest answer.