Henare Tau: General Debate 
Henare Tau: General Debate 
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Hon TAU HENARE (National) 
: 
 I got it wrong I say to Trevor Mallard. It is not “hang ten”; it is “hang loose” so I say “Mahalo to you too brother.” Clayton Cosgrove said earlier on this afternoon that he wanted to reflect. Well OK let us reflect. Stuart Nash says he wants to be like the Terminator—“I’ll be back.” The fact of the matter is that in the next  
Terminator 
 movie the Terminator dies. So if the member wants to be like that I tell him to go right ahead. 
I want to talk about working-class heroes and one of those working-class heroes I love is the Mad Butcher—“Go the Warriors”—who to me is a true New Zealand working-class hero. He is not the sort of working-class hero in this picture who drives around in a flash as Mercedes-Benz and parks outside the office of Nicholas Jermyn Shirtmakers. Here is the thing. Look closely at this picture. What does it say? It says “Chauvel Labour”. It is a Merc. It is a brand new Merc. But here is the thing. He is not even driving his own car. He has somebody else to drive it for him. Talk about  
Driving Miss Daisy 
. 
How dare Darien Fenton have a go at our man—and he is our man—from New Zealand from South Auckland the Mad Butcher. I can understand that. I can understand being in Opposition and faced with the appalling travesty that is about to happen on 26 November. Well it is not a travesty; it is actually good luck. Actually it is not luck; it is just good—it is just good. Labour is at 26 percent in the polls— 
Darien Fenton 
: No. 40. 
Hon TAU HENARE 
: Absolutely—no. 40 in the polls. Our 40 is the equivalent of 15 in the Labour Party. So who goes? Who goes from the Labour Party? Who does not get to have a valedictory? Well we know it is Stuart Nash. And I feel sorry for that member because he has actually done a lot—OK he has not but he is a nice man. There is Carmel Sepuloni who I think is talented but she is not coming back either. There is Steve Chadwick. Well she has been here for a while so she can go. 
Then there is Iain Lees-Galloway. Now we have just heard from Iain Lees-Galloway. He wants to put a tunnel under the Manawatu. He wants to put a tunnel there so there are no more slips. My goodness me! That is not going to get him in. I have two words for Iain Lees-Galloway—two words. 
Hon Member 
: Bye-bye. 
Hon TAU HENARE 
: No the two words are Leonie Hapeta. They are two words that will continue to play on that member’s mind. 
Then there is the very very unpatriotic Phil Twyford. He has the gall to open up an office across the road from me. I can handle that. I wave out to him every morning I go to work but I have flags on my office: New Zealand flags All Blacks flags and flags of all the nations of the Rugby World Cup. And what does he have on his office? Nothing—nothing but an ugly red picture that has been photoshopped and one that we know has been photoshopped. So I say to Phil Twyford: if you want to come to Te Atatu—not you Mr Assistant Speaker Robertson though actually I know you would like to come to Te Atatu. If he wants to come to Te Atatu and represent the people of Te Atatu then he had better be patriotic about his country. He had better be patriotic about his nation because I tell you what: it is a pretty bad look. To not even be able to find the turn-off to Te Atatu—that is another little lesson I want to leave Mr Phil Twyford from the Labour Party. They will all be gone on 27 November.