I’ve been getting through an awful lot of printer ink recently. With our friends in Canary Wharf embarking on a publication spree this summer, the latest 114 pages to roll off my trusty HP LaserJet finished off yet another cartridge.

When I first became a Financial Planner in 2002, professional development was fairly straightforward. I would pick the most interesting sounding product provider seminars, turn up at a couple of these each month, and that would be enough to satisfy my continuing professional development needs. How things have changed.

Leading Financial Planners say that the Conservatives recently dwindling fortunes in the polls meant that the election result was far from the shock some experts have said and that a Conservative-led coalition remains likely to try to push through current financial reforms as best it can.

Five years ago today, I launched an online petition calling for fairer funding of the FSCS.