Tabuteau Fletcher: General DebateText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeTabuteau Fletcher: General Debate[Sitting date: 26 August 2015. Volume:708;Page:6176. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]FLETCHER TABUTEAU (NZ First): The Nats go on and on about being serious about money being serious moneymen—but it is a load of rubbish. They are rubbish at it. The reason their so-called plan is working for them is that they have no plan. It is now because things are getting serious that the people of New Zealand are finally able to see that the Nats have no plan and that they have no vision whatsoever. Under National there are more people unemployed than there were when National took power. There is more debt now than when National took power. There are now more way more immigrants coming into New Zealand than when National took power. Nearly all of them are unskilled by the way—nearly all of them are unskilled—which simply masks the lack of a real plan for New Zealand. It is not a panacea; migrants are coming in and instead of the Government focusing on a real plan and a real way of generating wealth in our regions we get more and more people coming into the Auckland economy creating this consumerist economy that completely misleads New Zealand about what is going on. It is so that the Government can talk about average GDP figures—averages. The 1 percent are getting richer but everyone else is getting poorer.What about the balance of payments? It is getting worse. The Minister of Finance has not had a single surplus—not a single surplus—since he took the job. If this was a cricket match this guy would have hit a maiden over by now. It is not a cricket match but those are his own rules. Those are the rules he set for himself and he has hit a maiden over. It is unbelievable. Where is the brighter future that this Minister promised in 2008? No one is seeing it. Most young Kiwis cannot even afford to buy a house let alone get on to a Kiwi farm. Wages have stagnated. Where is the growth that this National Party promised the people of New Zealand? There is next to nothing if you look outside of the Auckland housing bubble and if you look outside of the Christchurch rebuild unfortunately those numbers are now going in the wrong direction as well.But the scary thing from the global dairy trade downturn is the flow-on effects. We are already seeing the flow-on effects of our New Zealand farmers having to close their cheque books now and the flow-on is that regional businesses are not getting the business that they once were. The books do not show that to this Government just yet. The books have not caught up with reality. So that National Government sits there and continues to deny the facts but the books will reflect that reality very soon.It is unbelievable. This Government took credit for the low Kiwi dollar this morning. It took credit for it like somehow it made that happen. What a joke. Yes the Government says now: “Yes yes but look at the low interest rates.” It knows they are low because the economy is heading down the proverbial. Interest rates are going down because this economy is not performing.Look at what the Government is focused on now in the health and safety legislation—secret tribunals taken straight out of the investor-State dispute settlement provisions of the Trans-Pacific Partnership and now we have got school principals talking about how they cannot and are not willing to let kids play on playgrounds any more. They are not willing to let kids go on trips any more. This is from the guys who hit at Helen Clark over shower heads and pies in schools. If Labour was running a nanny State then this is National’s nanny State in denial. Thank you.