If it is true, chances are they're breaking some EU or Court of Human Rights Law! - isn't it a mans fundamental right to spend six years or so in his garage, day and night, hammering and drilling away at great financial and mental cost to himself and his family, to one day produce a flying machine, surely that's written into the European Convention on Human Rights!
Anycase, I think the British Goverment should retaliate and ban all Oranges