Bagehot: The Twilight Zone

摘要

For the plotters of coups, timing is all. Move too early, and they find themselves facing a firing squad, fleeing into exile or, in more sedate countries, being snubbed in the parliamentary tea rooms and excluded from the membership of select committees, with their supposed champion immortalised as the wielder of a banana rather than of power. That is the fate that seems to have befallen the Labour mps who called for Gordon Brown to step down, just before the global economy imploded and the prime minister was extolled as its stalwart saviour. The plot, if not the plotters, is now dead-right?