Must try harder.

Someone thinks we work too hard. We should take it easy, and not work so much. Perhaps we can follow Darien Fenton's lead - so far in October she managed to:

• Make no speeches in the House. (It sat for six days so far this month.)
• Make no published speeches
• Not issue a single Press Release in October. So far this year she has put out nine press releases - less than one a month.
• Get her first issue to appear in the Herald this year about working too hard. (According to their search function on their Website - a search on Stuff returns nothing.)
• Asked two supplementary patsy questions (and they would have been written for her.)
• She is on two select committees - there were three meetings of the Government Adminstration Select Committee and one meeting of the Transport and Industrial Relations Select Committee.

Hardly the workload that one could complain about!

I'm sure some people out there will say I'm being too harsh, and that Darien Fenton cannot be too controversial as she is a backbench Government MP. However, several Backbench Government MPs have built high profiles - For instance, Tim Barnett - and I alwas believe that it is incumbent on MPs not to complain about the good work they think they do but to build their profiles and push policies to the forefront. If you want an example of this, look no further than the Green Party.