Third, to more senior MPs, I make this plea: please, please, let's not be quite so poll- and focus group - driven. They will make you nice, and beige, and timid—in short, wishy washy. And as small as our remote little islands are, its 5 million people, 26 million sheep, 10 million cows, and 100 million or so native birds deserve better. You were elected for your values, principles, character, and judgments, and to be bold in pursuit of them. If the people wanted a robot, these days they could probably buy one on the internet. As I think John Howard once told me "Good policy is almost always good politics in the end." And as maybe David Farrar or some other pollster once told me, "Polls and focus groups don't, or at least shouldn't, tell you what to do. They should only ever be an aid, helping you to decide how to get to where you think is right." Let's, more often, do what we think is right and lead the polls and the people to where they should go for New Zealand, not follow them to a place where the breadth of opinions—those we vocalise, anyway, in this House and the press gallery—become narrower and narrower, and beiger and beiger. Nice "Beige-land" rather than New Zealand: please, no way! 