In reply to connor:
To be fair, I think you're right. Pitching the inner first is extremely disadvantageous in wet conditions, which, as are we are well aware, are fairly common in the U.K.
This is not a tent built for U.K conditions, as mentioned on the other thread, the outer is not flush with the ground, therefore driving rain soaks the occupants and contents of the tent. If the weather is guaranteed to be dry and calm (which of course it never its), one could simply forgo the tent.
Americans often just sleep in the inner, if they think it will rain they set up a tarp suspended above the tent rather than using the fly. This whole 'pitching in the rain' malarkey rarely happens. I had lots of comments on the bomb proof nature of the obviously weather proof U.K. style tent we took last time I was over there.
Post edited at 14:35