Mark Sainsbury

Okay, fair enough, all right?

Then came the bit that just pissed me off.

We suggest, recommend you go back to your GP and look at alternative providers, including private.

What the fuck?

You're telling me, you the state are telling me I should go and pay for it myself.

That's what you're saying.

Now, I can understand the priority thing and all that sort of stuff.

But when they started saying go and pay for it yourself, I thought, I was so pissed off.

I thought about going public.

Then, oh, it looks like you're just trying to leverage your way up the queue, you know.

So I was sitting on a plane going up to Auckland.

And I look across the aisle.

Oh.

Who's that?

The leader of the Labour Party, Andrew, who was the health minister at the time.

How are you going, says Andrew.

I said, oh, yeah, not bad.

I said, I need a hip replacement, but apart from that, oh, well, of course, you'll put in lots of elective posts and da-da-da.

I said, look, yeah, I've got no problem with that, Andrew.

And look, I...