Obama-rama. Obama-mania. Obama-drama. That, yesterday, was Prime Minister’s Questions. Actually I’m surprised we still use that silly old term Prime Minister. Yesterday it was more like Questions for the President-elect’s New Best Friend. For that is who Gordon Brown is now and he can’t quit talking about it. Indeed, at one point, Mr Brown seemed to intimate that American voters, in electing Mr Obama, had virtually elected him.

The fawning was so intense that I half expected Bambi to be watching from the public gallery. Everyone who was anyone (and many who are not anyone at all) clasped the new American President-elect to their breasts. I think it was when a Sir Stuart Bell actually started to quote Martin Luther King that I wanted to roll up in a ball and pretend it wasn’t happening.

Mr Brown began by saying that his new best friend had written a new chapter in history. “I know from talking to Senator Obama that he will be a true friend of Britain,” he said smugly, for in this case Britain was him and he was Britain.

David Cameron had his own little gush. For the US to go from the horror of segregation to the election of his new best friend in 40 years was an “incredible transformation”. “It shows that the US is a beacon of hope and opportunity and change.”

Dave savoured the word “change” for he believes that, like his new best friend, he is the change. But now Gordon also thinks he is the change. Labour MPs started to barrack Dave: we may not have a Barack but we do know how to barrack.

“I read that you sent a message to the President-elect,” noted Dave, “presumably it wasn’t, ‘This is no time for a novice’.” Gordon was thrilled that Dave had mentioned his billet doux. “What I said was serious times need serious people!” he trilled at Dave. “Once again he’s proved he’s not serious!”

Dave gesticulated towards the Labour benches just as Barack would if he were there. “You’ve made your strategic choice,” he taunted. “You killed change when you bottled that election and you buried change when you appointed Peter Mandelson ...”

Mr Brown, who is quite the comedian now that the global economy is in meltdown, taunted back at the Tories: “The only change that you represent is that you change your minds every week!”

I wanted to cry “Stop! All change!” but there was no stopping them. Finally Gordon just exploded with this: “The reason the American people voted for change is that they want progressive policies. They voted for a fiscal stimulus, opposed by the Conservatives. They voted for a rising minimum wage, opposed by the Conservatives. They voted for regulation of pensions and mortgages, opposed by the Conservatives. They voted for tax credits, opposed by the Conservatives.”

I had to shake myself. The American people did not vote for tax credits, they voted for Obama. Most wouldn’t know a Conservative from an Oldsmobile.

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