As in most things in life there are two sides to every story so it's perhaps unfortunate to start bandying phrases such as stupid and $hite service around.
The OP asked for thoughts on the matter, here are a couple of mine.
1 Leemings runway orientation is 34/16, if you were transiting north and they had FJs on recovery they will in all probability be doing a radar to visual recovery at about 300 knots from something like 3000 feet descending to 1000, your profile sounds like you would have been inconfliction with them. These recoveries can and often do happen at very short notice.
2 If you didn't like the turn you were given, you could always ask can I go to the NW to vacate the MATZ
3. As another poster hinted at there has been higher than usual activity in the Vale of York this week and the zone controller may have had higher priority tasking elsewhere.
4 if you infringed the DTV zone, it was your error not Leemings as you had not gained a clearance to enter the zone.
I am not defending the zone controller as I wasn't there and he may well have been a less than average controller but these things are often not clear cut. If you have a problem in future with events like this, the best way forward for all parties is to call the supervisor at the unit concerned.
Hope that helps.
Moli