Arguing that someone should give you something is much easier to communicate than arguing that someone should redo its tech to be able to give you something. P

Arguing that someone should give you something is much easier to communicate than arguing that someone should redo its tech to be able to give you something. Policywise it is beneficial to conceal your own knowledge about their technical barrier and frame it in the easiest way possible to produce the highest public pressure. Which is probably what this telegraph journalist did fall for.