The term fifth columnist may be thought more relevant to our past, as with those working within British intelligence in World War II, while betraying their country by handing over classified material to the Russians. However, as a definition of someone, or a group, working subversively to attack a country from within, questions can legitimately be raised as to whether this term may describe the activities of some of our own members of the New Zealand parliament now, or in the past, causing concern to New Zealanders.