Doesn’t our homegrown politics look all a bit boring and blasé when you’ve got such a volatile show unfolding in the US?

Actually makes you grateful for our rather quiet way of life, I think.

The most exciting it gets for us here at the moment is who may or may not make the cut in any given Caucus line up.

And today it’s National’s turn to make a few leadership calls.

Gerry Brownlee has done the right thing and bowed out.

Actually Trump could take a leaf from his book in terms of how to just go gracefully.

Not that he’s going going.. he’s just stepping aside from the Deputy role, and that’s the right thing to do.

Current Caucus favourite apparently is Shane Reti, and Judith certainly seems keen on him. There was chatter Michael Woodhouse may tip his hat into the ring, but not if all the support was going to go Reti’s way.. which it sounds like it might. Others say Todd McLay’s in with a shot.. even Simon Bridges.

As for the leadership question.. that isn’t really a question.. given who’d want that poisoned chalice right now and it sounds like Judith’s the only one putting her hand up for it anyway.

Her continuing in the role is probably the right thing to do. She fought a tough campaign, she’s a tenacious scrapper who knows how to get back up and keep going, she has the mental fortitude to deflect and defend herself in the eye of media storms, she’s experienced, and she may have finally managed to tighten up the leaks and sookabubbas who spent most of the campaign whining and undermining.

• National's caucus meets today to vote on party's next deputy leader

Though that remains to be seen..

What we do know, is that portfolios will be switched around- can Paul Goldsmith possibly keep finance after his blunders?

Who gets what will be important in regards to who they have to go up against in terms of holding the government to account.

The media will obsessively ask about diversity of course, and no doubt compare that to the Labour party’s extremely diverse cabinet. But you can’t work with what you don’t have, and Collins is a believer in places awarded for merit, not quotas anyway. But the National party is looking down a long road of rebuilding and refreshing. It’s seen as tired and shabby and needs more than just a cosmetic tart-up, it needs a thorough overhaul .. not just in talent, but also direction.

Will today’s tweaks be enough to salvage a distressed party? We’ll have to wait and see.