He directed us to stand with our heels on a pair of marks on the floor, hold our arms out from our sides and stand still for roughly five seconds while the Kinect cameras mounted all around us snapped away.
The financial industry has even launched a massive lobbying campaign, locking arms with the opposition party, to stand in the way of reforms to prevent another crisis.
"President Obama has made it clear that the United States does not stand in the way of other countries that have made a decision to provide arms, " he said.
The report compiled by four House of Commons committees said the stand-off should have triggered clauses which forbade arms exports when there was a clear risk they could be used "aggressively against another country".