IT would be too easy for Prime minister Gordon Brown to just pack his bags and leave Downing Street.

That would be the classic get out clause for the struggling PM, who is taking a beating from every corner in the ring.

According to the BBC NEWS, Sir Gerry Robinson, the tycoon, who is one of many funding the Labour Party, said on Sunday's AM show that it doesn't feel right with Labour leader Gordon Brown at the healm.

He told BBC One's Andrew Marr show: "It is very straightforward. I think Labour are looking in a lot of trouble and I think Brown is showing all the signs of not being a capable leader.

"These crises don't happen accidentally. It's not just an issue of timing; it's an issue of either getting it right or not getting it right. And it doesn't feel right.

"In the end, politics like everything is about leadership and leadership is about a capacity to make us feel we are doing the right thing at the right time and making everybody feel good - that the country's in good shape."

It may not feel right, but does that mean that Brown should be ousted?

Robinson has a point, Brown's leadership since last year, when he replaced teflon Tony Blair, has gone from bad to worse, with one problem after another circling his ailing party.

Not all of it has been his fault, but, at the same time, he has contributed in part to the Party's dramatic poll slump.

The Tories, who have relished the last few months experiencing a honey moon of poll boostings, and well, to put it bluntly good fortune from Labour blunders, still have their work cut out if they are to pursuade the electorate that they are a force to be reckoned with around the leadership stone table.

Labour should take stock before they make any hasty decisions about ousting Brown, after all, who is a credible alternative?

Foreign secretary Milliband, young gun, not without his faults, Four Hats Harriet Harman, who wants everybody to be equal, and yet parades about town in her swanky suits and gale smiles? Or, former postie Alan Johnson, who reportedly defended Brown, by saying he has not had a bad year?

In the words of failed Apprentice Simon, I wouldn't want your job mate?

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