Jackson WillieHon WILLIE JACKSON (Minister of Employment): Thank you Madam Deputy Speaker. Well that was a shocking speech—shocking speech—and Denise go back to council now. Go back to council now. First of all I want to congratulate Phil Twyford. What a brave and courageous Minister. Against all the silly and poor and pathetic attacks from the Opposition we had him here standing brave today courageous talking about congestion—something the Opposition would have no idea about.Simon O'Connor: Indigestion.Hon WILLIE JACKSON: Well no indigestion for some of them. The problem is if you don't live in Auckland particularly in South Auckland you wouldn't know. It is terrible and so you have to do something. The Opposition did nothing over their nine years—DEPUTY SPEAKER: I didn't do it.Hon WILLIE JACKSON: Nothing. All they did—of course not yourself Madam Deputy Speaker but your mates—was invest in their rich friends; tax cuts for their mates. They forgot about the infrastructure forgot about the basics forgot about Middlemore Hospital forgot about the roads the streets—it was shocking shocking what you did.And here we are always thinking about the poor people the working-class people. I want to be a little bit humble today because I believe myself and my friend Anahila over here have represented more poor people than the whole National caucus combined. I sincerely believe that and I say that very humbly. The National caucus has no idea about poor people's needs. And here's the crunch: not one—not one—poor person has said anything to me about the tax. Not one word not one line and the same with Anahila. We live in South Auckland; we don't live in east Auckland. We don't live where a lot of the National Party live. We live in South Auckland and not one poor person has said anything about what the National Party's talking about tonight basically because they don't care. All of a sudden the National Party cares. Why do you care? Why does the National Party care so much now for poor people? Poor people don't give a stuff about this—not one person.The only time I've been attacked—and I need to say this—was in Northcote. In Northcote I was attacked by a National Party supporter of Dan Bidois. It was clear as a bell. I thought there was going to be violence towards me over the tax. This is in Northcote where Shanan was—the fantastic Labour candidate who cut back that huge Northcote majority and made the National Party look stupid on Saturday night.I have been to gang patches; I have been to Mongrel Mob patches Black Power patches done all the door-knocking but over there in Northcote knocking on a National Party supporter's door I was threatened. Of course I backtracked because Labour Party people are peaceful people. We're not going to engage in aggression or violence with National Party rabid maniacal supporters. No we're not going to do that. I backtracked and I said You vote for Dan Bidois. You vote for Dan Bidois."I was attacked but in South Auckland they all support this levy. They all support it. You know why? They want to get into the houses where all the people were kicked out by your Minister Paula Bennett Judith Collins and all of you because you all thought that they were smoking meth. Do you remember that time? Then you invested $100 million in all your National Party mates so that they could all have jobs. We recall that time well don't we? Remember that time—$100 million being invested into National Party supporters and friends while you kicked the poor and working class out. You kicked the poor and working class out and made up stories and you had Paula Bennett in cahoots with the Housing New Zealand Corporation. That's what the National Party did. That's how much the National Party cares about poor people. We all know this thank you very much. That's how the National Party looks after poor people.So I want to say today that Twyford is leading the way—and it's good to see you're all silent now because that proves to me that guilt has overwhelmed you in terms of this kaupapa. But we are brave; we are courageous. There is $28 billion going into this—more money than you could ever think of—and into fixing up roads and fixing up what poor people want done because poor people can't operate on rotten crummy roads that were laid out by the National Government. Kia ora tātau."