Well – Gordon was sooooooooooo dull that the Speaker had to tell everyone off for holding private conversations! That’s what happens in the Chamber when the person on their feet fails to hold the Members’ attention. You don’t expect it from the Prime Minister though.

As for the substance of what he had to say – Vince Cable summed it up well: after all those years waiting (and even delaying the election so he could lay out his visiion more clearly) – there wasn’t any vision there. Instead we just saw the cosy duopoly of the Tory Twins – i.e. both Labour and Tories agree on so many, many things now – leaving the Liberal Democrats to stand up for the public against the cosy self-interest of the political establishment.

As the for the behaviour of MPs: the racket and the baying and the shouting was shameful. If this is the example that Parliament gives in terms of grown up behaviour, debate and governance…