A lot of people seem keen to say how much they hate Brown, but none of the reasons really stands up. Certainly most of the other G20 leaders say he has done pretty damned well in the face of the global economic crisis, while the list of Labour achievements he reeled off in his conference speech looks pretty impressive to me - and I'm not a knee-jerk Labour voter.

By contrast Cameron comes across as an opportunist lightweight whose policies are remarkably sketchy - save for the scrapping of inheritance tax for the country's 3,000 wealthiest estates.

Even if you regard all politicians as inveterate sleazebags, the choice would seem to be between a a humourless bunch of do-gooders with a bathplug and some smutty videos on account as opposed to a claque of Old Etonians touting duck-houses, moats and swimming pools.