To be fair, though, Simon Bridges is right to be worried. Todd Muller called Harete Hipango a liability. Simon Bridges said that Maureen Pugh was "[rather] useless", and if that isn't National Party hate speech, I don't know what is. But then the leader herself should probably be a bit worried. If the standard is "saying things that are mean about your colleagues", Judith Collins is currently holed up in a floor-to-ceiling glass house. As one of her colleagues said on her election as leader, "It's a bit rich to be lectured on loyalty by her, given how much leaking she did." But then, on the other side of the coin, she called Bill English a poor leader, and Bill English in turn said that she had an unfortunately high estimate of herself, so it cuts both ways over there. But, as I've said before and I'll say again, nothing screams "alternative Government" like late-night caucus meetings, resignations, scandals, disappearing lounge suites, and MPs being chased through airports, and long may it continue.