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As we have said before, this is not a straightforward privatisation, but a deal made behind closed doors—a cronies' deal made in smoke-filled rooms.
They came up with the disgraceful formula of stuffing the committee with their own political and business cronies.
Denationalisation is so urgent that he is tripping over himself to buy shares, and his cronies are doing the same.
He does not protect whistleblowers—he protects his own cronies and himself.
To replace an admittedly imperfect system with one that is worse—a system of cronies and appointed patronage—cannot be right.
When asked to choose between high standards of government and the low politics of his cronies, he has unerringly chosen the latter.
The entrepreneur who was running them had appointed his cronies as trustees of the pension fund, and ran off with the money.
Much as one would like to think that this world is full of cronies, it is not.
I fully take the point that we do not want the appointment of cronies.
What about the other cronies who have managed to get on to the list of candidates for my party?
I suppose that cronies will be appointed for that purpose, or else someone in the system will do it.
They were also a self-perpetuating oligarchy with well-used procedures of co-option from among golf club cronies.
However, it turned out that the chairman of the consultants—of the medical panel—had done his own thing and consulted one or two cronies.
On the other hand, we do not publish these things in the newspapers so that he and his cronies know in advance that he is likely to be arrested.
He and a few of his more easily led cronies swagger around the estate and threaten those vulnerable enough not to be in a position to fight back.