I'm not sure what it means but Daniel Hannan is still in the top 4 You Tube most Viewed Videos, and No 1 in the UK viewed videos. I've been watching the figures go up 200,000 300,000 600,000. The count is now at 1,200,266 views. If you haven't yet seen it, it reflects what so many think about the disaster that we have in charge. It's a shame that people don't speak like this any more in our "knock around, broken" Westminster Parliament.

"For once, Gordon Brown had to sit and listen"

So what caught people's imagination?I think it has to do with pent-up frustration. People feel ignored, ripped off, lied to, taken for granted. No one asked them whether they wanted to run up the biggest deficit in the world. No one asked permission before seizing their money in tax and giving it to the banks, only for the banks to lend it back to them at interest. The whole thing was done without so much as consulting Parliament. And there was I thinking that we had come through a civil war in order to establish the principle that only the House of Commons might raise revenue through taxation

When people hear the Prime Minister blithely asserting that all is well, that the recession is coming to an end, that Britain is well placed to "come through stronger" they want to grab the man by his lapels and shout at him. Not being able to do so, perhaps they enjoyed the sight of someone else doing it for them.

The episode serves to show how utterly and irretrievably the internet has changed politics. In 24 hours, 380,000 people had watched a video before a word appeared on the BBC or in any newspaper. The Daily Telegraph was the first. The days when political journalists got to decide what was news are over. Ten or even five years ago, a dozen lobby correspondents would dictate the next day's headlines. Now, millions of bloggers and commentators come to an aggregate view.