Woods MeganDr MEGAN WOODS (Labour—Wigram): Well it is a full-on full-blown Blue Wedding" over on the other side. We are seeing the blood being spilt but clearly the word had gone out before today's general debate: "Don't mention the war. Everyone channel Bill and bore them into submission. Everybody make sure they are as uneventful as they possibly can be." and for that I give you a 10 out of 10. The Minister of Education may even achieve an Achieved on that one.But make no mistake this is a backbench in revolt. They have never had so much to do. You can see the lights in their eyes as has been said somewhere else—the plotting the scheming the extra coffees in Copperfield's. You can see it all happening. All over the second floor of Parliament House it has been awash with bewildered and lost-looking Ministers asking us whether we know where so-and-so's office is and what they look like because they would quite like a chat. For once this backbench in the National Government has something to do other than not last 10 minutes. So it is all on over there.One member one unnamed backbencher from National told me that he never knew he had so many friends. I said: "Don't worry it will all be gone by lunchtime Monday. It will all be over." But what happened at that pirate party last week? Well a mutiny emerged. That is what came out.Kris Faafoi: The swords were sharpened.Dr MEGAN WOODS: As my colleague here Mr Faafoi is saying the swords were sharpened. What may have been planned was that now-infamous barbecue at Todd's place down in Gore on Friday. Who was there? Well we know that the maternal overlord of the National backbench was the guest of honour—Judith Collins was the keynote speaker at this. But who else was there? Maggie was tweeting up a storm saying what a hard-working member that member was but his mate Sarah Dowie seems to be backing Bill and it seems to be that Bill will not back Todd so what went down at the barbecue? Was that Don of the South Island National Party Roger Bridge in attendance desperately trying to secure a lifeline for his old mate Gerry B? Or has he given up on him too as everyone else seems to have? But what went down?Todd Barclay was at pains to say he was proud to be a member of a John Key - led National Government. I wonder whether John Key is as proud of him or whether he has more pride in his mate from Merrill Lynch who is contesting that seat for selection. Nowhere were the fault lines in the National Government more revealed than in Gore on Friday. But when we thought it could not get hotter today it got hotter. Bill's bridesmaids emerged. No one wants to be Jonathan's deputy; everyone is queueing up to be Bill English's deputy. There is Simon and there is Paula both hustling it out to be the generational change. They have declared the 50-year-old North Shore doctor not to be hip enough to represent that generational change. I do not know—he knows how to smoke a cigar at a U2 concert. That might be quite hip enough. But Simon is making it clear that he is Generation X and Jonathan is not. This has to be the defining thing. So "Si/Bill"—as it is going to be known—is going to be offering 10 lanes on the North Harbour bridge at any moment.But then on her way into the Chamber Paula Bennett declared her hand. She said that she too wanted to be the face of generational change and that she was the one who was going to be the deputy. This is a change from the normally reserved Paula Bennett who does not like to blow her own trumpet: as quoted in a recent article this month when asked who was the politician dead or alive whom she most admired she said: "Me." But most chilling for all the—Hon Annette King: You?Dr MEGAN WOODS: No no she said "Me."—quote unquote—not me. But most chilling for members on the opposite side who are up against Ms Bennett is that when she talked about her softer side her more tranquil side she revealed that she likes to go fishing. She said: "I love being on the sea. I find it tranquil. I find it reflective. I find it cleansing. All that kind of good crap. And then I kill something." This is why there will be a change of Government to Labour in 2017 and there will be an Andrew-led Government after the next election."