What a difference a year makes.

One year ago everyone was hailing Gordon Brown's baptim of fire and brimstone,having had a terrorit attack,flooding and foot and mouth arrive in his first month.What a good PM to have dealt with all these unexpected interuptions and he even foregoes his holiday to return to direct the country.

One year on and the country cannot wait for him to go on holiday.

Meanwhile David Cameron was getting a lot of critisim for leaving his flood bound constituency to travel to Rwanda,his party split over Grammar Schools and seriously thinking it would lose a snap election.

Andrew Porter reminds us that

At home he had been pilloried for coming to Africa at all while Gordon Brown appeared to single-handedly co-ordinate the flood rescue plans.
Another low point came when even a local hack asked: "Shouldn't you be at home given the flooding?"
He had also just been stuffed in the Ealing by-election and there were mutterings about letters of no-confidence circulating.

Now he stands on the brink of becoming the next PM but surely a warning that a lot couild happen in the next twelve months.Any predictions?