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Riot Act Reading In Caucus

1 items · 1 aliases · peaked week of 19 Apr 2026 · first seen 10 May 2026

A political commentary discussing the government's rural school support package, internal National Party tensions, polling challenges, and the likely avoidance of a motion of confidence amid growing caucus disunity.

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  • he could do that. But I'll tell you what, well, you never know, but the thing is that I know that the Riot Act is going to be read about discipline in the National Party, because various media outlets have said they've been talking to to three disgruntled MPs. Well, you know, when you've got a caucus approaching 50 MPs and most of them, of course, are outside of cabinet, by far the majority are outside of cabinet, if the polling goes on, of course, they're going to be losing their jobs. But I would say to anyone that's thinking like that. Your job is not as important as the job you do for the country. The country should be put first, not your own selfish belief that you should be in Parliament. And that's the problem with these sorts Could of questions.
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