So, in classic British fashion, they co-opted him.
Against Posa's will the king has co-opted him as his confidant and spy.
Pickering's exile only lasted an hour before Manganese's fellow directors co-opted him back as chief executive.
Don't let's wait for somebody else to co-opt him.
"It will be interesting to see if the system is able to co-opt him as it has so many other black ministers in this town," he said.
More often, Smith is partnered with white men, usually older, grumpier, more authoritative ones who co-opt him into the status quo.
"Tim Hincks used the opportunity to have close contact with Peter Fincham by co-opting him into the Endemol band who already had a drummer so I got dropped".
Let African-Americans co-opt him, let's surround him with so much camaraderie and friendship, and don't let him forget, let us do it rather than fall victim to Machiavelli's dictate, separate and rule, divide and conquer.
Even his critics, however, recognise that Rajoy is his own man, distancing himself from Aznar and resisting the financiers, newspaper editors and others who have sought to co-opt him.
He credits Albarn – "a sweetheart" - with re-igniting his interest in music, first by co-opting him into Gorillaz, then by offering to co-produce The Bravest Man In The Universe.
So friendly has Clinton grown with his old opponent George H. W. Bush — they have raised more than a hundred million dollars together, to help the victims of the Asian tsunami in 2004 and Hurricane Katrina in 2005 — that one member of the Clintons' circle worries that "the Bush people worked hard to co-opt him," keeping Clinton quiet, or at least polite, by keeping him close.
