Totally agree with THTF. There has been more than enough warning of the termination of national exams, in Pilot and Flyer, in AICs, letters sent to Heads of Training, the website, etc, etc. Let's face it, there will always be a few individuals who will insist on finding someone else to blame for their own inadequacies - luckily, it's a tiny minority.
The NPPL cock-up was, as it happens, nothing to do with either the JAA or the CAA. It was wholly the result of the ill-advised insistence of AOPA that the PPL was included in JAR-FCL1 in the first place. Having made it more difficult and expensive to gain a PPL AOPA then had to find a face-saving way out - hence the ridiculous NPPL which, in practice, will be no cheaper, no quicker and significantly more restrictive. It is hardly surprising that a large majority of CFI's will have nothing whatever to do with it.