I dont think they are picking on us for any other reason than we are a convenient target, big enough to make them look serious but not big enough to cause them a problem. That with a massive helping of cluelessness. Whats the saying, never ascribe malevolence to something that is more easily explained by incompetence.
although it's not the first eruption of random bureaucratic spite we've been subjected to for weird political reasons down the years I suppose.
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