Last year take tw0 or Groundhog day

For the Economist's Bagehot who says

It is at once tantalising and wearyingly familiar. The rumours of plots and stalking horses; the questions about whether it is better or worse for the Tories if Mr Brown goes; the speculation about the fall-out of poor election results; the chuntering backbenchers and not very coded swipes from a few current ministers and the odd retired one; the hows and the whos (the contention that no Labour figure would want the top job in these dire circumstances has always struck me as the worst reason for Mr Brown to feel safe: these are politicians we are talking about, after all); the debate about whether a new Labour leader would be obliged to call an early general election: it is an almost exact re-run of what happened last year.