Goldsmith PaulHon PAUL GOLDSMITH (National): Well the Minister Chris Hipkins over there feels good about the election campaign and so do we because here in the National Party we're feeling like as we go into the Christmas season we have a lot to reflect upon. One is the fact that this Government has delivered us a slower economy and a slower economy means fewer opportunities for Kiwis to look after themselves their families and to have great jobs—fewer jobs are created. When this Government came in growth was in the mid 3 percent growing about an extra $9 billion a year. Now it's closer to 2 percent and we heard just a couple of days ago ASB's latest prediction that they are currently forecasting per capita—that's per person—growth to struggle to exceed zero. Zero—so not growing at all when you take into account population growth—and this is at a time when New Zealand should be booming.Just a couple of days ago we saw the latest terms of trade which are the prices that we're getting for our international goods. You'd have to go back to the 1950s—and actually it's even higher than it was in the 1950s at the high point of New Zealand's export prices. So we should be doing really well right now. We should be booming. This is a golden opportunity for this country to progress and instead we're spluttering along because of this collapse in confidence that we've seen under this Government the strange priorities that they have the lack of delivery around anything that they promised and the wasteful spending. The only solution that Grant Robertson and Jacinda Ardern offer is distractions like the fact that we should smoke a bit more marijuana and do all these other things—and of course more debt. More debt is their solution and they're prepared to break the solemn promise that they made to the people of New Zealand that they'd live within their debt targets.The other interesting thing is that they had their conference on the weekend and one of the interesting stories that came out was that the conference booklet was an interesting one. It had 13 pictures of Jacinda Ardern and none of anybody else in the caucus. I always remember—Hon Iain Lees-Galloway: It's good to have a leader we're proud of.Hon PAUL GOLDSMITH: Oh well I always remember during the Mt Albert by-election there was a sign up saying purely and simply just one word: Jacinda". It always occurred to me that anybody that allowed that sort of sign to go up on their behalf has a colossal ego. There's no doubt about it—a colossal ego—just to put your first name up on a hoarding sign. And here we have a party that is looking more and more like a cult of personality for Jacinda Ardern. It's amazing.So we've got the 13 pictures of Jacinda. I suppose the question is: why didn't they put anybody else in? I mean why couldn't they have Kelvin Davis in there? Why wasn't there a picture of Kelvin? They could have had a picture of Kelvin. He is the deputy leader—deputy leader of the party. Of course he is a bit of an invisible man not available when she is not available to do her weekly media which is quite often. Grant Robertson fills in. So Kelvin they could have had a picture but they didn't. They could have had a picture of him at Ihumātao. To be fair Grant was in the side of one of the photos but he shouldn't expect anything more than that.Chris Bishop: What about Iain Lees-Galloway?Hon PAUL GOLDSMITH: Well they could have had Lees-Galloway. They could have had a picture of Lees-Galloway sparring with Karel Sroubek but they didn't—they didn't. What about Phil Twyford? They could have had a picture of Phil Twyford beside one of the KiwiBuild houses in Wānaka that nobody wants to buy or perhaps beside one of the houses which don't even meet the standards for social housing in New Zealand. Or we could have had a picture of Megan Woods down at Taranaki talking to the people of Taranaki where she's very popular! They could have considered one of Andrew Little. He deserved at least one photo for throwing in the towel just before the election to get them over the line. The New Zealand equivalent of Corbyn should have had at least one photo in the book. The angry old man of New Zealand politics—where was he?Chris Bishop: What about Jamie Strange?Hon PAUL GOLDSMITH: Well there's no chance of Jamie Strange. We could have had one of Stuart Nash. What about one of Stuart Nash collecting firearms? We could have had one of those. Or we could have had Jenny Salesa vaping. We could have had a picture of her vaping but no there's nothing there of Jenny. There's a whole heap of other Ministers that nobody's heard of. David Clark—we could have had a speech bubble with David Clark saying "Nine years of neglect nine years of neglect." That would be a good photo of David Clark I think. Maybe Carmel Sepuloni with one of the deadbeat dads that don't have to pay for their kids any more under the welfare system. Willie Jackson—we could have a picture of Willie. Poto Williams—what about a picture of Poto? I think that'd be good—a well-deserved photo. We could but no we have none of that—only 13 pictures of the Prime Minister and if anything goes to show that this Government is not a team that it's a one-person band then that's it. Thank you Mr Speaker."