in professional integrity that I would publicly praise people Judy and I had trained and criticise or ignore those we had not trained. What makes this even more offensive is that I could not possibly have been more open about our long-standing relationship with the Labour Party or my personal political allegiance. We were media advisors to Helen Clark, her front bench when she was in opposition and her Cabinet when she was Prime Minister. We trained every Minister in that Cabinet, including David Cunliffe. As I have declared elsewhere on this site, we were approached by Labour Party people about six months before the election to provide assistance to Phil Goff and other Labour Party front bench spokespeople, including David Cunliffe. We were not asked to provide training or advice to David Shearer, but would of course have done so, had we been asked. This is far more information than you are entitled to or deserve. I really should have told you to mind your own bloody business. But this sort of nastiness gets right up my nose. Now you can sit down and write suggesting that I do protest too much, the predictable next move from people like you. Two great candidates but I feel on edge when Shearer is interviewed because he cannot present his argument concisely. So I agree with you except for your point that the caucus' job is to elected someone who can win the next election because you've omitted to mention that the