Gordon Brown, at the time of the Government's October bank bail-out, confidently told Newsnight: "You have got to get a restructuring right. I think people would take exception to a situation when there was a partial proposal and then we had to come back with another partial proposal, and then another…. What we have done is a far more comprehensive programme than ever people were asking for." Last week the Prime Minister announced "the next steps" in his rescue of the banks. He was wearing the same tie as in October, and this wasn't "the next steps", just another rushed emergency.