The BBC has been criticised for its election coverage.

I thought it was OK, a vast improvement on 2010 when the focal point was that ridiculous 'celebrity' boat on the Thames.

In 2010 the BBC election night programme was so dire and boring I was forced to channel hop. This time there was no need for the remote control.

Things did however begin to flag late on Friday afternoon when Huw Edwards, Jo Coburn and Andrew Marr found themselves talking to the cheerful, benign figure of Lord Hurd, the former Foreign Secretary.

Now aged 85, Hurd gave the appearance of someone who was on a day out from an old folks' home and was thoroughly enjoying himself.

Invited to talk about Scotland, he commented:

"I don't want to be rude about the Scottish Labour MPs but they are not the pick of the bunch. Some of them turn up in the House of Lords of course, perfectly nice, some of them, but they haven't really got the guts to ..."

The rest of the sentence was inaudible because he was quickly interrupted by Coburn who could be heard saying "Damning with faint praise!" and a chuckling Andrew Marr who added:

"We established earlier on that the English were odd. Now we know that the Scots are peculiar!"

If I was a producer on Have I Got News For You an invitation would be winging its way to Lord Hurd post-haste.

Comedy gold.