don't have the patience for these pasty people.

Here is a bit of good news.
The Home Office fixed my naturalization papers so they have my birth name typed correctly. They also sent back all of my ID that went with it.
Then? I got my national insurance number.
THEN? I finished up registering to vote.
Now to apply for my British passport.

I think I now understand how everyone in the British government works. (having wrangled with three different departments at once.) They pad things with loads of extra time (filling one with extreme rage) and then return things in a quick fashion so you are grateful for some minor level of competence on their part.
They also expect people to just quietly grumble but not actually say/do anything. (because most native born citizens don't. At most they might write a letter to the Times or maybe call into the Jeremy Vine show and blather about it. Possibly blaming the youth of today.)
I do my best to be very polite but I do ask questions. And I suspect that most governement employees don't actually know what various rules and regulations are. So they try and get you off the telephone by doing that weak, "Sorry" nonsense. AND I firmly believe that not one single department of government talks to the other. Ever. Not if they can help it. These little islands that are next to one another but refuse to acknowledge each other's existence. "Oh we don't know about that." (phrases I have heard more than once.)

And one final interesting thing I noticed about the Home Office. It was a bit of a maze to find the right phone number to contact someone to deal with my issue but there was MORE information about ways to call the home office to report immigration violations. *raises an eyebrow* You know, just in case you want to try and deport a few of these unpleasant foreigners.
Can we deport Iain Duncan Smith just because he is just a big awful bastard?