Cosgrove Clayton: Taxation (Budget Measures) Bill — In Committee 
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Cosgrove Clayton: Taxation (Budget Measures) Bill — In Committee 
[Sitting date: 20 May 2010. Volume:663;Page:11124. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.] 
Hon CLAYTON COSGROVE (Labour—Waimakariri) 
: 
 People have called this Budget a “borrow and hope Budget”. In fact Ganesh Nana on  
Morning Report 
 this morning when asked—[ 
Interruption 
] Shirley Temple in the corner over there laughs as she is wont to do. She laughs at everything. She laughs when a rapist is on the run laughs when a corrections officer gets his bones broken laughs laughs and continues to laugh. But here is the thing that Ganesh Nana said— 
Hon Judith Collins 
: I raise a point of order Mr Chairperson. The member is now becoming extremely unparliamentary in his language. If he wants to call me by my correct name Judith Collins he can but to refer to me as Shirley Temple is frankly just ridiculous and is just another example of his behaviour in this Chamber. 
The CHAIRPERSON (Eric Roy) 
: There is a longstanding convention that members are addressed by their correct names and titles. The member should contain his remarks just to the bill and I advise him to do that. 
Hon CLAYTON COSGROVE 
: Absolutely. I note for the record that my friend Charles Chauvel who is a bit of a movie historian I am told noted that the actress Shirley Temple was a far better diplomat than some around here. 
But Ganesh Nana the economist said that this is a Budget where the Government has borrowed for tax cuts. He is a learned economist and said it has borrowed. It is very interesting because Judith Collins could be described as a bit of a cappuccino politician: if one gets rid of the froth there ain’t a lot of coffee left in the cup. It is interesting. I did not call her that Mr Chairman; I was making an analogy. This is a “borrow and hope Budget”. It is “borrow” for tax cuts for millionaires and “hope” that the inflation rate does not hit Treasury’s forecast of 5.9 percent. That is what it is so let the old cappuccino politician over there suck that one up. 
Indeed I invite Judith Collins to go to the people of her electorate which I believe is Papakura. She is not keen on having public meetings in her electorate but I challenge her to have a public meeting and invite the 67 percent of her constituents—she does not like this of course—who are earning under $40000 per year. She is the great tough Minister. She is going to get tough on everybody right? I invite her to have a public meeting and get tough with those 67 percent of her constituents who are earning under $40000 a year and get a tax cut that is negated absolutely by GST which is then negated absolutely by the 5.9 percent inflation increase—and we have not even started on accident compensation levy increases car registration increases and the list goes on. So I invite that gutsy Minister of Police that gutsy Minister of Corrections who is so tough who wears a grin bigger than a Cheshire cat around this Chamber who is tough with everybody to continue to show her enormous intestinal fortitude and have a public meeting in her electorate with the 67 percent of her constituents who have missed out—or worse—and who are worse off thanks to her. 
I do not hear the cappuccino machine bubbling away. No Judith Collins is not so tough now of course because she will not do that. I invite Judith Collins at her next police executive meeting to say to Howard Broad: “Look commissioner I know that everything your department purchases will go up by 2.5 percent. I know that I have not compensated your department for the Budget cut that I have effectively put in place. But don’t worry commissioner because I as Minister of Police will swagger around and be tough and that will compensate you.” Every Government department every school every church every organisation and non-governmental organisation that purchases goods and services gets a 2.5 percent cut to their budget as of this legislation going through and commencing. But no we do not hear anything from the corner stall over there do we? No she is not so tough now. There are not so many grins coming from over there. 
I say to Mr Sharples that in his electorate 64 percent of his constituents earn under $40000 per year and our “weekend warriors” from the Maori Party stood up one after each other last night to say how proud they were of this Budget and how they had delivered for their constituents. 
Hon Judith Collins 
: Yep! 
Hon CLAYTON COSGROVE 
: The tough Minister says “Yep!”. I tell members that that will be a great quote for Labour members who are or soon will be clustered around her electorate to take to the 67-odd percent of her electorate whom she has sold out and the 64 percent of Mr Sharples’ electorate whom he has sold out. Those people are worse off and the froth is starting to come off. But those members will not get up and justify that. I will make a bet with anyone in this Chamber that Judith Collins and Pita Sharples and all the old relics over there will not have a public meeting in their electorates.