Matt Bullen

Wow, David Stewart, what a fantastic op-ed in Wednesday's Beacon.

I bet you didn't think I'd be saying that, Dave.

Isn't the coalition doing a great job? I'll get to that, but first, when I went to school, early on, back in the 1970's, my mum lovingly made my lunch, sandwiches, a bit of baking, some fruit, every day packed into my little Tupperware lunchbox.

Once a month on a Friday, however, we got to order our bought lunch from a local provider. I'd order a mince pie and a doughnut, a little box of raisins and a cheese wedge.

Oh, the excitement when the lunches arrived; an over-enthusiastic 7-year-old, straight into the lava-like mince in the little pie, and the result, a burnt mouth. Ah, hot!

I didn't tell the teacher though, because in 1977 if you whined about something stupid you did to yourself, you got the strap. That's how we learned not to do stupid stuff to ourselves.

I'm still waiting for Paddy Gower or John Campbell to arrive to do an expose on the second-degree burns I suffered at Bledisloe Primary School in 1977.

Back to the government doing a great job. If, just like the bent legacy media, the school lunch programme is what is grieving you the most, then the ACT National and NZ First Government is just cracking along, isn't it?

With the breathless activist reporters on One News interviewing their own typewriters and re-running footage of entitled little ingrates serving their taxpayer funded lunches to Crackles, the school pig, and Mr Stewart occupying a third of a page in our well-balanced local paper, if that's your main concern, we should be encouraged and confident that everything else the Coalition is doing, is going swimmingly well.