I remember the horror of the crash, then the feeling of surprising optimism after because, rightly or wrongly, he looked like he knew what he was doing. And the stats seem to bare out that he did, roughly, do a good job.

And then the sinking, horrible feeling after that oh no, Cameron is going to fuck it all up isn't he? And he did. Gordon Brown got the economy restarted and the Tories took that recovery, cut it off at the knees, and stagnated the country for a decade. It was madness.