I'm going to stress here that I'm not a qualified pilot but I may have a few suggestions.
Whilst you have very strong grades, unless you have serious funding I and/or qualify for free uni in Scotland, I'd consider doing an apprenticeship/school leaver programme. That said, a good degree from a top-10 uni is no doubt worth a lot career-wise.
The best post-apprenticeship salary I've seen for a "normal" job is circa. £35k or so (without overtime), that was a manufacturing engineer for an aircraft engine manufacturer. Very difficult to get in but if you do you could be on that by the time you are 20 or 21, with no debt having also earned (albeit less) during your apprenticeship. I work in the financial services sector and many people at division-director level went into the company straight out of school and worked their way up.
Aviation-wise, if you have 85 hours and predict you will have 200 or so in the next couple of years you could try the West Atlantic scheme which is discussed in a thread in the Interviews & Jobs section. I think it might be closed for this year and I think you have to be 18 to apply.
I have heard of a couple of people getting on an airline scheme post-PPL. On The Air Show (BBC 1999) someone got into the (old) BA sponsored scheme with 150 hours on a PPL. You could go straight for the FPP when it next opens.
Slowbird13 has pointed out that the BA scheme won't take first job integrated unless they are FPP. Many of the supposed "integrated-only/integrated-preferred" airlines will put their "tagged" students first. A great deal of the non-"tagged" OAA students ended up at Ryanair (from the OAA employment statistics) which also take first job modular.
Talking about employment statistics, be careful. It has been mentioned elsewhere on this site that flight-school statistics which mention airlines who only take experienced pilots is a give-away that the school is potentially including experienced pilot movements from one airline to another in their figures.
Alternatively you could instructing (maybe part-time) whilst studying/doing another job. I believe it is difficult to get a job at the moment but I believe you can get paid to teach on a PPL with FI rating. It would I imagine exclude you from the airline schemes but many smaller airlines (turboprops) will take instructors who have also gained fATPL etc.
Last edited by Chris the Robot; 12th Mar 2013 at 20:40.