English Bill: General DebateText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeEnglish Bill: General Debate[Sitting date: 19 February 2014. Volume:696;Page:16075. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]Hon BILL ENGLISH (Deputy Prime Minister): Twelve months on some things have not changed about the Labour Party. I think I have said this before. The leader is still called David. Most of his caucus still do not support him.Tim Macindoe: Probably more.Hon BILL ENGLISH: Probably more actually. Grant Robertson is still going around the country undermining a leader called David. But one thing has not changed: this David is a tricky David. With the other one you at least kind of knew what he was—and at least he knew. But of course David Cunliffe is not quite so sure. This is a man who is a unionist with the unions a Māori with theMāoris and a farmer with the farmers. But one thing that he tried not to be was a leafy suburb guy in the leafy suburbs. But what happened? He got caught standing in front of a yacht—a picture he could not get them to delete in Taranaki unlike the other ones. It turns out that for all of his references to large homes in leafy suburbs he has one. And of course being the working-class hero with the working class does not quite fit with being the leafy suburbs guy in the leafy suburbs.So what I thought I would do is have a quick look at the latest update on his CV because as we know that is a dynamic document to say the least. Bits appear on it and then disappear. He is the founder of Fonterra—actually he is not; he is something else now. I came across this thing called DavidCunliffe.com—a digital identity. He is a digital guy when he is with the digital natives. This is a DavidCunliffe.com website and I thought maybe I had found him. It says: “David has guided and supported individuals with matters of the soul for decades”. I thought maybe he is a monk with the monks.But then his CV goes on to say he has “become a respected figure …”—well that does not sound quite like the person we are after. It says he is “often described as a … insightful individual”—and he is in his CV described that way often. But the next one killed it: “refreshingly humble”. That was when we knew this was not the real David Cunliffe because although he may be refreshing it is not with humility. That is absolutely sure. Then I knew for sure when it said: “Surprisingly his spiritual path has remained … refreshinglyunboastful.”This is a party that cannot boast about its leader—that is for sure—and does not want to. But usually in the Opposition when the leader is having a bad patch like he is the front bench does the work. It actually took Shane Jones to show everybody just howweak and lazy the Labour front and middle benches are because when they should be carrying their leader—because he is going to need a lot of that—by running issues that put pressure on the Government and attract the public’s attention they are not doing any of that. They are not focused on anything that matters.In fact it is infecting David Cunliffe. On my little phone I got a tweet from David Cunliffe that was about a big issue of the day. It said something like: “I am very sorry to see the end of @massivemagNZ.” What the hell is that? It is the big issue—and not for just the Leader of the Opposition because he also says to refer to Grant Robertson.I think it must be a student magazine. That is the big issue of the day.I know that Grant Robertson never really left student politics so the end of Massive Magazine from Massey’s campus probably is the biggest single issue that has preoccupied him all week. But he should be doing more than that to carry his leader who needs guidance who needs to be carried and who needs a team around him to feed him issues instead of him making them up as he goes.