Well, I got through it this time – although to be honest, I did keep dipping into websites: my attention doesn’t stretch to ninety minutes of people saying ‘real change’, ‘we are truly different’, and ‘I will get the big decisions right’ over and over again.

After half an hour I wrote ‘false, false, false’. It was the first and last note I took. The rest of my feelings didn’t need notes. Gordon Brown did much better (which wasn’t difficult), Clegg continued to look credible…and David Cameron was awful. Surprisingly, Sky asked a senior member of each Party which man won, and they all said theirs did. But then, Sky does have the majority of the X-Factor audience, so we mustn’t look for intelligent analysis.

A genuine surprise, however, was that Miliband for Labour was right on the money when he said “David Cameron didn’t really turn up for this one”. I’m baffled by Cameron, probably because I can name the exact day when he suddenly lost it: it was a Monday – the one when Osborne went on telly and said that the Party had to get tougher on the deficit…and Ken Clarke backed him up. For the next three days, David Cameron was the invisible man. I think he’s been secretly dispatched to a shallow grave somewhere, and replaced by a quieter, slightly more awkward clone.

I doubt now if I’ll ever get to the bottom of what really happened that week, but Cameron has been off his stroke ever since – and George Osborne has obviously been told to shut up unless he has something right down the on-message fairway to say. Either way, unless Dave has a hat somewhere with ten rabbits in it, the chances of a Conservative Government now look slim. I’ve been told in the last half-hour (10.00 pm last night your time) by a well-placed Tory that the private verdict on their man immediately after the programme was not good; but then, this person isn’t what you’d call a Cameroon.

No doubt as I write, lots of people are being asked who they want to be Prime Minister. I’ve a sneaking feeling Adam Boulton might just shade it.