mercredi 7 juillet 2010

Lite, but good, summer reading

Fill in the blanks:

"___________'s enemies and most of his supporters knew about the Tories' fine silk threads of patronage, contracts, and party discipline. ____________'s government rewarded friends and punished opponents. The Prime Minister and his lieutenants blatantly used all forms of patronage to support their power and build their party. "As soon as Toronto returns Conservative members it will get Conservative appointments," he told his friends there, "but not before." He installed favouritism as a central feature of the unwritten part of the Canadian constitution. Senatorships, janitorships and all sorts of jobs in between went to loyal party men. Contracts were given to friends of the government..."

Any guess who wrote this and about whom?

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