Who am I going to turn to, now that my former role models in the financial world are in disgrace. Alan Greenspan, ex US Fed boss, Adam Applegarth, former Northern Rock CEO, Sir Fred Goodwin, Royal Bank of Scotland and Andy Hornby (HBOS), to mention but a few. These are just a handful of what I will call the "Midas Boys",” who have turned the financial world up-side and down. What I need to urgently know is who and where are the new geniuses who are going to lead us out of the unholy mess give us our jobs and our confidence back.

Only twelve months ago, I would wander the City, in jealous awe of those sharply dressed, yuppies, who I believed had the financial world at their fingertips. In restaurants, I would sit on the next table to them, straining my ears in hope for gleaning a crumb of insider information. I would sidle up next to a group of them in the bar, hoping for a drop of precious advice.

Well that’s all over now. I can’t even see a dark pin striped suit without getting irrationally irritated. But the one good thing is that restaurants are now destitute of many of those arrogant, overloud traders and, in the bars and pubs, can be once again heard the common sense of your average man in the street.