So an interesting morning of talkback after Jacinda Ardern and Emmanuel Macron announced a campaign to combat the use of social media to promote extreme terrorism.

What I was intrigued about was the amount of speculation that surrounded the debate. The speculation about why our PM was involved. The speculation of what might happen if actions were taken to extreme levels. And it seemed to me, that the fear of the speculation was driving people to dismiss the initiative. Which would be weird in my view.

Rather than imagining the motivations and consequences, you might want to just look at what has been said and when.

Yesterday the news that some international action on social media standards was about to involve the Prime Minister was greeted with some cynicism. Many said she was just trying to hide her failure the week before over the Capital Gains Tax.

Can I just say that failure will never be hidden. That failure has ensured the tax will be off the agenda for a generation. At the next election that failure will be referred to day after day on the hustings. As failures go it was a biggy...at least it cost $24 million less than John Key's flag failure.

As it turns out the reason it first made the news yesterday was that overnight the Governments of France and New Zealand announced a campaign that would, and I quote, “attempt to bring to an end the ability to use social media to organise and promote terrorism and violent extremism”.

Emmanuel Macron and Jacinda Ardern will co-chair a summit between governments and tech companies to discuss the issues, and what can be done. The summit takes place in May. Why then? Well, the meeting will be held alongside the Tech for Humanity meeting of G7 Digital Ministers and France’s separate Tech for Good summit. In other words, all the big players are already there.

All that makes anyone who thought this whole thing is a smokescreen to hide this Government’s failures in domestic policy look like a fool. Not even Jacinda Ardern can organise the globe to hide her screw ups. It's something the whole world is worried by and the Christchurch attack has thrust us into the forefront.

The release from France and New Zealand, talks about talks between governments and social media platforms. At no stage does it talk about rules, or regulations or laws. And yet many critics, including National’s Mark Mitchell, have talked about the inability of laws to be effective internationally. I have no idea why that is a relevant point. This is a pressure campaign for self-regulation and decency amongst the social media platforms.

People have also jumped straight to concerns about freedom of speech and hate speech. None of which has been mentioned in the release. This morning's debate had a lot of paranoid panicking people imagining the arrival of George Orwell's 1984

France and New Zealand would like to see Facebook come up with a way to stop a terrorist live streaming a massacre. Now if you're objecting to that, then are you also thinking that we should just show the whole thing on TV? Of course not.

Meanwhile, people keep asking why doesn't the Prime Minister get on with fixing up the problems at home first? Well, patience my pretties. It’s not quite Games of Throne but it will be a blockbuster. The Budget is coming in May. At the midpoint of the parliamentary term, this Government has to finally deliver.