“Is it fair to say that the country…..and the economy have been let down by people in the city?” “So why is that if you’ve made the right decisions and the Tories have made the wrong decisions do the polls not reflect this?” …. and so on and so on. Even when Brown told complete lies like “we have reduced debts”, Marr remains mute.

Jeff Randall on Sky really laid into Brown this week when he tried to pull his usual line in “Brownies”, not that it made much difference, Brown just stuck to his lines. The viewer was able to make up their mind who to believe. Marr really should stick to reporting, his interviews are pathetic.

Gordon seemed to be testing out a new line, that he had been telling all the other finance ministers (who were not as brilliant and as far-seeing as him) that we need a global regulator for years. One that would allow 125% mortgages, not monitor liquidity and wrench the central bank away from the government debt markets. If only the Americans had listened to him…