Peters Winston: General DebateText is incorporated into the Bound VolumePeters Winston: General Debate[Sitting date: 01 July 2015. Volume:706;Page:4999. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS (Leader—NZ First): New Zealand First has just been attacked by Wikipedia. First of all from 1 July free doctors visits is a New Zealand First policy. They say imitation is the most sincere form of flattery but a bit of old-fashioned honesty would have been a good idea.Today Nick Smith got up in the House and clearly misinformed every New Zealander. If you go to the Forests Amendment Act 2004 section 67C—we are talking about section 67C(3)(a)(iii)—it is as clear as daylight: “the timber has been presented to a Forestry Officer for inspection and he or she has inspected and approved”. Mr Smith misled the House. Damien O’Connor was precisely right.Now we go back to Northland—well before I do why would they have meetings with the RSAs of Wellsford and Kerikeri without asking the man who believes and whose party believes in proper funding for defence forces? I mean those guys up there are going to be told: “If you want some help then there is one place to go to and it starts with ‘NZ’ and it ends with ‘First’.”Now on Northland Simon Bridges is a politician who will double-cross any bridge he comes to. On 8 March National’s candidate announced the 10 single-lane bridges that were to be replaced and there it had this candidate surrounded by of all people the Minister of Transport “Simple Simon” and a man from down in Wellington who cannot get a seat Mr Bishop. There they were. There they wereat the election—all promising. It was 8 March. This was not as a rogue candidate. Then you had National promising up to $69 billion—Chris Bishop: Billion?Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS: —$69 million I said—for these 10 bridges. So where is the money? Where is the money? Where is the Wellsford to Pūhoi roadway? Where are the plans? Where is the money? On 18 March Mr Joyce was asked to list the bridges for double-laning and he had no qualms about listing the likes of the Darby and Joan Kauri Bridge. Everyone in Northland knows that that is manifest nonsense. It puts me in mind of the former president of Russia Nikita Khrushchev who said about politicians that they will promise a bridge where there is no river. That is what he said a long long time ago. The Darby and Joan Kauri Bridge does not have a river ladies and gentleman. For the umpteenth time: it is not a bridge.Anyway Mr Key said: “We are in Government and we can do things.” And then he got caught out. He said that the Government would spend up to $69 million on 10 bridges regardless of the outcome of the Northland by-election the blitzkrieg about which Mr Mark Mitchell was being so effusive. A blitzkrieg—[Interruption] Oh yes it was! It was a blitzkrieg of truth and commitment to the people of the north. Then on 30 June Simon Bridges waded back saying that the New Zealand Transport Agency had ruled out double-laning three of the bridges including the Darby and Joan Kauri Bridge. That is what he said. So National announced three bridgesyesterday not 10. Are you confused? It gets better. Speaking to the Dominion Post yesterday Mr Bridges said that despite most of the 10 bridges promised to Northlanders failing to make the $13.9 billion transport plan announced on Tuesday National will keep the campaign pledge and fund them anyway. Really? When where and how? Oh of course that is the kind of thing responsible people do when they are in Government!Someone must have been costing Mr English out because Mr English was asked a question at a select committee. He got asked the question “Have you got costings for all of these things?”. This was 2 weeks ago. Mr English said: “Well yes there will be.”—yes there will be. That statement was demonstrably false. But it comes back to this: we want Maurice Williamson back. At least Maurice told the truth. That is why Maurice tore into the Minister of Transport in the select committee but National’s deceit will be known in Northland. My job—and indeed Mark Mitchell’s job—is to ensure that Northlanders know the truth which is that they have been grievously let downagain.