Driveway project going wrong - Have I been given a bad 'MOT Type 1'

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Afternoon everyone, I've just joined the forum to get some opinions on my situation, it's driving me crazy.

For a while I've been excavating an area of my front garden, for a driveway parking area, plan is to gravel it, it's a sloped area within a retaining wall, sub soil is hard clay I believe.

I ordered a delivery of quarried 'MOT Type 1 - 803 spec' referred to as Dolomite in our area quite often, the company is called Scott Bros in the North East of England.

I used Terram1000, and a biaxial Geogrid, laid the MOT down roughly 75mm loose, compacted it with a 58kg plate, it seemed perfect when I initially did it, dry weather.
Over the past week, it's rained on and off (no torrential rain) and the result is a sloppy mess, see my images.

Every part of the area is like this, regardless of location on the slope, if I walk on most of it, my food will go straight through into the below grid/terram.

Can I recover this in anyway, or should I contact the merchant and dispute the quality of the product.

Any help will be appreciated.

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