Michael Jennings in bureaucratic purgatory

Pity poor Mr. Jennings . . . a recently naturalized British subject. He chronicles his experiences of trying to apply for a British passport:

When I made my last post about the small piece of incompetence I had encountered from the Home Office upon attempting to apply for a passport immediately upon becoming a naturalised British citizen, I wrote the sentence

Theoretically, when I became a citizen, one thing I gained was the right not to suffer the petty humiliations and bureaucratic hassles and incompetence from the Home Office that a non-citizen goes through just to live here.

One commenter left a response that more or less translated as "You poor deluded fool". I concluded the post on a surprisingly upbeat note, however

My passport will hopefully still come in a couple of weeks...

It is now two and a half weeks later, and all I can conclude is that yes, I was a poor deluded fool. However, the situation is somewhat more sinister than this.