Maybe its prudent to remember that its not just the ratings you need to get an Airline job.
To get your CV selected by the Training Captain even for an interview, from several hundred others on his desk, means that yours has to be a little bit special. In the brains of most Training / Recruitment Captains I have ever met, there is no substitute for a candidate trained in UK airspace, and by a "credible" FTO,
There may be a cheaper route to the rating, but perhaps not to the interview.
Good luck anyway.