00:00The fate of individual politicians doesn't really matter as much as the development of the right policy.
00:06I mean, it isn't a good idea to keep changing prime ministers.
00:11I think there's also a limit.
00:13I mean, if I give you a term of years, it'll undoubtedly cause trouble.
00:19But I think it is an idea to have a limited number of years.
00:22I think the Americans who have two terms of a president and then stop, I think there's a sense of...
00:27We can't get to two years at the moment before speculation.
00:29I know, I know, I know, I know.
00:31But this is a phase we're going through.
00:36And it's partly a function of the many, many difficulties that we face at the moment.
00:41The role of... You're not there as a politician. It's not a game show.
00:44You're not there just to provide fodder for the media and project your own career.
00:51You're there to deal with problems that the ordinary people elect you to do.
00:55We are a representative democracy.
00:59We send representatives to parliament to make sure that our lives are better.
01:06And if you ignore and deny those issues, our lives will not get better.
01:11And those parliaments will have failed.
01:14And those parliaments will have failed.
01:15How are we going through?
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