To be thrown under a bus by a spineless Chairman, reversed over, set up by a Communications Ministers and shafted by the Prime Minister of the day in an uncontrollable misogynistic rant, bullied and sacked over an insignificant expense claim all because you are far too capable and threaten their boys club existence.
Marjorie was absolutely Holgated when she lost her CEOjob.
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)