Investors were evidently intent on having their say at last Friday’s Barclays annual meeting.

One enraptured the bank's board with the tale of how he married into the Barclays fold, before thanking the firm for its professional support, prompting Agius to applaud him for his "good business plan", while another bamboozled the board by bringing up sign-on and pay-off costs for a recently departed executive, Lehman Brothers-related legal proceedings, and the independence or not of the remuneration committee chairman as part of one of the longest non-questions yet heard at an AGM.