unless the Draft Opinion is amended to include the flexibility of JAR-FCL 1.175(b), it will NOT be possible for the UK to vote honestly for the Draft Opinion at comitology. For which Goudou and his gang of €urocrats can rightly be held to blame
Perhaps they'll be open minded enough to realise that a pan-European, accessible instrument rating trumps the need to continue offering a national qualification for flying under IFR in IMC without an instrument rating? Especially as everyone who currently has that national qualification would be able to carry on exercising its privileges.
The way I read it, the people who you slag off (quite inappropriately, given your role with AOPA, whatever your personal opinions might be) have produced a set of proposals that satisfies existing UK IMCr holders, gives a sensible path to a proper instrument rating that can be used by those not too xenophobic to venture abroad, and lets the thousands of FAA IR holders convert to EASA ratings.
Sure there are things that could be better, and problems that will need to be sorted. But this proposal is so much better than it might have been, and I am sure that the tone of any official AOPA response will be very different from the one you are giving on various Internet forums.