In all honesty I had to look Denise Lee up. She is one of the 20, or so, percent of politicians in the previous Parliament I had literally never heard of.

For a person like me who has a pretty solid interest and understanding of the political game and who is playing it at an influential level, I was surprised when I did the exercise some months back, just how many of them in there i had literally never heard of.

Denise Lee was one of them. Isn't it always the way that the ones who seemingly make the least contribution, are the biggest problem makers behind the scenes?

For it Ms Lee, who has whined publicly about her leader Judith Collins coming on this show on the Leaders Breakfast on Monday, and announcing the review into the Auckland Council and the CCOs like Watercare and Auckland Transport. She moaned she hadn't been consulted, which is sort of ironic, given all the stuff she has been consulted on she clearly never did anything of note with, given I had never heard of her.

She was, her bio exposes, a former Auckland councillor. I had never heard of her in that life either as it turns out, but I suspect it is a clue as to why she might be miffed at the policy. Not only wasn’t she told about it, it insinuates she was part of some of the ineptness Judith Collins wants to review.

Anyway, because Ms Lee has clearly very little loyalty and discipline, she's now made life difficult for a party that has over the past several weeks gained some very serious momentum.

Collins made what she calls a leader's call. And here's the important point, does anyone in their right mind really think it's bad policy?

Auckland is a mess run by buffoons and Collins wants it sorted. The engine room of the country's economy is short on cylinders, the mechanics are amateurs, and she wants to fix it. Surely, that’s the bit we should be interested in, not whether some nobody three years into their time in National is a bit miffed the boss didn’t call.

Collins is right to dismiss her whinging, and Collins to right to have received the apology because the fact this race is actually a race now is down to the work of Collins, not Ms lee, her misery, and lack of positive contribution.

It's one of the downsides of the political equation, you can't sack the hopeless ones.