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- noun Plural form of
quangocrat .
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Examples
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But boasts of multimillion-pound savings have given way to claims that culling quangocrats is really about democratic accountability?
Quango cull must lead to greater transparency Gaby Hinsliff 2010
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On the Daily Politics yesterday, and again today, Phillip Hammond was made to look foolish and their list of the top 20 'quangocrats' includes many from the BBC, C4 etc, bodies that Hammond agreed were not quangos.
Bonfire of the Quangos? Mark Reckons 2009
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Today's details included in the ODA's annual report confirms that bosses at the construction agency are among Britain's most richly-rewarded "quangocrats".
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By then, of course, Pickles will have gone, cherishing his reputation as a tough guy willing to face down the quangocrats and regulators.
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Nor will any redundant quangocrats next week be donating their six-figure payoffs to Big Issue sellers.
Cutting from the rich and clobbering the middle, Cameron looks like a lefty Simon Jenkins 2010
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Etc.etc. So, far from conduction a hefty dose of arson, our beloved Prime Minister has, as Chancellor and Prime Minister presided over a vast expansion of QUANGOs and a proliferation of faceless quangocrats.
Archive 2008-03-30 2008
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Etc.etc. So, far from conduction a hefty dose of arson, our beloved Prime Minister has, as Chancellor and Prime Minister presided over a vast expansion of QUANGOs and a proliferation of faceless quangocrats.
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Generations of well-meaning arts quangocrats have attempted to crack this so-called "Samantha syndrome".
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Figures published today show that 26 quangocrats earn more than £200,000 and 158 earn more than £150,000.
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When not personally pocketing public money, the quangocrats are frequently to be found passing it on to their ideological soulmates in the left-leaning think-tanks.
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