Why can’t politicians quit while they’re ahead like Klopp did?

The Bunker – News without the nonsense

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News, Society & Culture, Politics, Government

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🗓️ 30 January 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Jürgen Klopp impressed the football world with his honest reasons for quitting as Liverpool manager. But how come so few politicians know how to quit when they’re ahead? Andrew Harrison talks to Oh God What Now regular Seth Thévoz about the history of political exits – and the times when leaders from Harold Wilson to Thatcher, Major and Blair just couldn’t let go. •“Even politicians who’ve said ‘I am definitely standing down’ find all sorts of creative reasons to hang on to power just a little bit longer.” - Seth Thévoz •“It’s actually quite sad speaking to retired politicians, especially if they’ve been turfed out of the office. One minute being at the center of power, making decisions, and the next minute nobody wants to interview them, nobody wants to quote them or ask their opinion on anything." - Seth Thévoz www.patreon.com/bunkercast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:13.0	I loved going to college.
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1:15.1	still in mourning because in a moment that genuinely shocked the world of
1:18.8	football and generally shocked me, Yergen Klop, Liverpool FC's manager since 2015, announced it on Friday that
1:26.1	he would leave the club at the end of the season.
1:28.8	I realised my resources are not endless, he said.
1:31.5	We're not young rabbits anymore and we don't jump as high as we did.
1:34.0	I have to make the decision at one point because nobody else will.
1:38.0	I cannot do it on three wheels.
1:40.0	Clop won admiration for his frankness about the toll that senior management takes on you
1:45.0	and how only you can make the decision to go.
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