Spare a thought for the treasury officials and bank executives who have had a weekend of talks and hand-wringing about the awful position we’re all in.

Whilst we’ve all been out wining and dining (or whinging and moaning), booking our summer holidays and generally splashing out with the help of our plastic friend (I don’t think), they’ve been trying to come up with a plan to save us all from losing our confidence in the Government to deal with the financial crisis. How much confidence do they think we have? You can’t lose what you ain’t got!

The meeting follows the promise from our main man, Gordon Brown, that measures would be taken to help families feel secure about their savings, so mortgages can be provided and businesses can get loans. Now, why didn’t he say that before – now I feel so much better, don’t you?

In addition to this glad news, Mr B said that there were ongoing talks with international leaders in order to tackle the global financial crisis caused by the “failure of the banking system”.

There seems to have been a lot of talking and an announcement is expected next week. We await the news.