This Morning presenter Fern Britton moved from the world of light entertainment to BBC’s Question Time this week and gave her views on the current financial crisis.

Fern appeared with Conservative shadow business secretary Ken Clarke and Liberal Democrat Treasury spokesman Vince Cable and when asked about the current banking crisis she replied:

She said: “It seems to the majority of people, that we who have families and mortgages and all of those things, we knew that spending was too much.

“We knew that credit was being offered willy nilly, we knew that money was suddenly very cheap to borrow.”

She added: “I’m going to be very sexist here, but it appears that a lot of men have been in on this money business and they have made a very bad fist of it.

“If there were some women doing some old fashioned housework, if there was the old fashioned housekeeping where women are traditionally pretty good at making sure the money goes in the pot for electricity and the phone and the whatever – we didn’t pillage and rob it and stick it all on a horse to see if the money would come in next week which it clearly hasn’t – when we put all that money into the banks and we see nothing coming back.”