Clebrity Night Shot

I want to interrupt my showbiz profiles for a moment to comment on recent developments in UK politics. The intent is to show that evidence for my significant years (i.e.'Year of Revolution' and 'Year of Broken Pathways') is all around us and that each day I check out the latest news another story appears. This is also by way of showing my appreciation of the team at EzineArticles, who sent me a kit to celebrate my expert author status. It was very much appreciated.

OK, now to Gordon Brown. Gordon's life in politics has been dominated by his long quest for power. In 1994, when he was aged 43 and thus at the mid-life 'Year of Broken Pathways', the former Party Leader John Smith died, leaving the question of succession between Brown and Blair. The two met at Granita restaurant in Islington and it is alleged that Brown agreed to stand aside, in exchange for a promise that Blair would one day stand down in favour of him. Brown's biographer Anthony Selden says this outcome left him: "seething with resentment believing the leadership crown, which he had hankered for all his life, had been unjustly stolen from him". This clearly meets the definition of 'Year of Broken Pathways,' as it is a fateful turn of events and presents a challenge that will take years to deal with. It is also very well known. He had to watch on as Blair became a very popular PM after the 1997 elections.

Now we move forward to his next 'Year of Broken Pathways' aged 55 and this time the tables are well and truly turned. Blair's commitment to the Iraq War and the Bush administration has left him highly unpopular in some quarters. However he did win the 2005 election, with the intent to serve a full term. Brown was now openly hostile to him and left him feeling like, in his own words: "a bullied wife". Still Blair was obstinate. In August 2006, he returned from a Caribbean holiday saying he would not give a date or timetable to leave office. On Sept 6th, Brown and Blair had an acrimonious meeting followed by the resignation of a Minister and 7 government aides. Blair then reluctantly said he would quit within the year. Later in November of that year there is speculation, that other challengers may come forward who are pro-Blair (an "anyone but Gordon" bloc). This drama again qualifies on all counts for a 'Year of Broken Pathways' example. The road to eventual leadership was anything but smooth and fateful events did occur. It would leave Brown with a challenge to cement his place in history. Again I quote the words of his biographer: "his indecisiveness manifested in his failure to call an election in autumn of 2007, which would have given him the personal mandate he never had".

Even though he gave sound leadership on the world stage in the period of the financial crisis and a range of good foreign policy initiatives, he failed to see that the party would have been in much better shape under a totally new leader. Here we see the several years of struggle, that often follows the 'Year of Broken Pathways'. He recently lost around 90 seats in the election and after several days handed in his resignation. This is not the legacy he would have wished. However he gives way to a most unlikely coalition of the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats, with David Cameron as the youngest PM in 200 years. I was interested to see newspaper reports saying Cameron: "faced an uphill struggle to make this union work and deal with a difficult economic situation etc." This fateful moment of challenge has arrived for 43 year old David Cameron, who is now in his own mid-life 'Year of Broken Pathways'. The story will repeat itself over the next few years I'm sure. A different name, a different script but the same overall theme.

You may think that I make too much of these events or that they are conveniently isolated to stories I want to feature. Keep reading because I will gradually prove otherwise. This is not the mysterious and questionable power of planets and constellations, or numbers, or anything else that is forever unprovable. It is the analysis of everyday life. It is brand new and it is different. It will one day change the course of history. At the very least it will continue to be entertaining and fascinating.