The last time this happened the party only just survived a split and the loss of around 30 MPs.
After the conditions they had only just survived, it was, I suggest to Brockbank, quite a feat.
Having only just survived my second battering with chemotherapy and still suffering ongoing consequences, I think the decision to refuse further treatment in future may be easier.
But could the Europa League be too much progression, too soon, for a club that only just survived the drop last season?
Last season Sunderland spent £40m on mostly British and Irish players, only just survived, and the manager, Roy Keane, complained too many were not good enough.
The manager was wise enough to acknowledge that narrowly beating Wigan, who only just survived relegation last season, hardly gives cause for jubilation.
There are other teams in the mix as well, so we have to concentrate on ourselves". But could the Europa League be too much progression, too soon, for a club that only just survived the drop last season?
Then, after a much-travelled career, in which he seemed to specialise in coming second or third, he arrived in 2015 at Leicester, a team that had only just survived relegation the previous season.
Traumatised and terrified by the attack that killed his friend, Brooks was bullied by detectives who accused him of fabricating his account of the crime he had only just survived.
Labour came in fourth with an unprecedentedly few 13 seats, Meretz only just survived, with 3. Oz sees this as a direct result of Ariel Sharon's Gaza pullout and the Hamas rockets that followed it.
