http://www.libdemvoice.org/eight-reasons-for-gordon-brown-to-be-worried-1230.html Our place to talk - an independent website for supporters of the Liberal Democrat party in the UK. Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:55:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.libdemvoice.org/eight-reasons-for-gordon-brown-to-be-worried-1230.html#comment-28369 tony hill Sun, 26 Aug 2007 19:27:14 +0000 http://www.libdemvoice.org/eight-reasons-for-gordon-brown-to-be-worried-1230.html#comment-28369 It's not just the case that long-serving Prime Ministers have historically been replaced in office by people who have been less successful: Harold Wilson was succeeded by Jim 'Crisis, what crisis?' Callaghan (OK, I know he didn't say it in so many words); Harold Macmillan by Sir Alec Douglas Home; Churchill by Eden. Outside of wartime the historical precedents are not good for Brown, but there is no iron law at work here, and maybe none of the others have wanted the job as much as Brown and had his almost fanatical degree of political focus. It’s not just the case that long-serving Prime Ministers have historically been replaced in office by people who have been less successful: Harold Wilson was succeeded by Jim ‘Crisis, what crisis?’ Callaghan (OK, I know he didn’t say it in so many words); Harold Macmillan by Sir Alec Douglas Home; Churchill by Eden. Outside of wartime the historical precedents are not good for Brown, but there is no iron law at work here, and maybe none of the others have wanted the job as much as Brown and had his almost fanatical degree of political focus.

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