Williamson Maurice: Misuse of Drugs Amendment Bill (No 3) — In Committee Third Reading 
Williamson Maurice: Misuse of Drugs Amendment Bill (No 3) — In Committee Third Reading 
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Hon MAURICE WILLIAMSON (National—Pakuranga) 
: 
 It is with a certain amount of trepidation that I take another call because when I took what I thought was a reasonably moderate call on Part 1 and said that there were some concerns about giving powers to a Minister—not the Minister in the chair Jim Anderton; I was not trying to be nasty to him—Jim Anderton of the Jim Anderton party who is going to set up a regime that will live for a thousand years got up and savaged me. As members can tell I am quite nervous now because I get worried when people savage me. I kept thinking that I have to pay respect to a man with Jim Anderton’s ability. No one in the history of this world has self-named a party as that man has. There was the Napoleonic era but did Napoleon call his party the “Napoleon Party”? No. The same was true of the Elizabethan era. But we are to have the Andertonian era with a glorious leader and some sort of Kim Il-Sung of North Korea - type equivalent. 
We will even have to change our names. Matt Robson is out there right now changing his name to “Jim Anderton II”. 
The CHAIRPERSON (Hon Clem Simich) 
: Order! 
Hon MAURICE WILLIAMSON 
: No I will come to Part 2. 
The CHAIRPERSON (Hon Clem Simich) 
: That is not the issue.There is a correct name for the party you are referring to. 
Hon MAURICE WILLIAMSON 
: It is the Jim Anderton party. 
The CHAIRPERSON (Hon Clem Simich) 
: No it is not. 
Hon MAURICE WILLIAMSON 
: I am sorry but the party has applied to the Electoral Commission to change its name to Jim Anderton’s Progressive party. 
Hon Jim Anderton 
: Not for parliamentary purposes. 
Hon MAURICE WILLIAMSON 
: It gets even better! The name is not for parliamentary purposes. Calling oneself the Jim Anderton party is something one does in the privacy of one’s own bedroom but not out in public. At any rate the leaders of the past—Fidel Castro Leon Trotsky—never called a party after themselves. The Jim Anderton party told me I was wrong and evil and I apologise to its glorious leader. I hope the regime lasts for a thousand years. 
Hon Jim Anderton 
: You’re easy to savage. 
Hon MAURICE WILLIAMSON 
: I am; I know that. I am such a delicate little flower that I take those things very personally. But I looked up the books and saw that Mao Tse-Tung did not name the Communist Party of China the “Mao Tse-Tung Party”. He was not as arrogant as that. Lee Kuan Yew who took over Singapore and ran it for three decades did not name a “Lee Kuan Yew Party”. But Jim Anderton— 
Hon Jim Anderton 
: Where is this in the bill? 
Hon MAURICE WILLIAMSON 
: It is not in the bill but I am surprised the bill is not called the “Jim Anderton Bill”. Why is it not the “Jim Anderton Bill”? What a silly name the Misuse of Drugs Amendment Bill (No 3) is. The bill should be the “Jim Anderton Promotion Bill (No 3)”— 
Hon Jim Anderton 
: Parliamentary purposes. 
Hon MAURICE WILLIAMSON 
: —for parliamentary purposes only and not to be taken at home. That is what the Jim Anderton party is. 
I make it clear that the National Party does support Part 2 which contains the search and seizure provisions. I know I will get another absolute rogering from the Jim Anderton party and I am sorry about that. 
Katherine Rich 
: Strip-searched! 
Hon MAURICE WILLIAMSON 
: There will be a strip-search by the Jim Anderton party. But I make it clear we support the bill because we do know there are certain things in it. As my colleague Lynda Scott pointed out someone who comes through the border with a suitcase absolutely packed with cold and flu remedies that contain all the precursors one needs to head off to a big cook-up to make P is clearly not carrying it for personal use. That person could not use all those remedies in the thousand years that the Jim Anderton party regime will last for. They could not be used personally. So I am really happy that the National Party is supporting this part. I am sorry I got savaged on the first part. I will wait to take my medicine for the next part when it comes.