Possible Clues:

• Quilt for an Apple bigwig?
• From objectors remarkably, his sympathy is actually discouraging
• Escort from abroad undermining task is unhelpful ally
• Pointless employment website — for brief time one brings no relief!
• One purporting to give sympathy but merely adding to the distress
• One aggravates the situation and posts dummy to England (once)
• One giving little solace posts woollen scarf
• Posts one arriving outside castle: he brings scant relief
• Using six's muffler, I just make things worse
• But he's not a sympathetic official at employment exchange