Iain Duncan Smith on for an hour, and not a single question about his vast area of Ministerial responsibility.
You know, the one in which the Government's policies are supposedly so popular? So popular that the Secretary of State has to protected from any public questioning on them.
But where was this edition of Question Time? Liverpool? Glasgow? King's Lynn. Even there, this level of protection from the voters is deemed necessary.
No one, on the panel or in the audience, mentioned "the recovery", either. I suspect that, right there in the heart of Tory East Anglia, anyone who had suggested the existence of such a thing would have been lynched.
There was no recession on the day of the last General Election, nearly two years after the Crash. Any need to recover since then has been caused by the Coalition. Repeatedly, in fact.
And no one in the electorate at large believes that there is a recovery at all. They all think that there is still a recession, and that there has been one continuously under Cameron and Osborne.
They will think that until there is a Labour Government, and they will remember it like that forever thereafter.
That happened in 1992-1997. It is happening again now.
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