Twyford PhilHon PHIL TWYFORD (Minister for Economic Development): This side of the House is becoming increasingly worried about Simon Bridges. As Judith Collins gets closer and closer to Simon Bridges in the preferred Prime Minister stakes Simon Bridges comes more and more to resemble Donald Trump. We're worried—we're worried about him because he's not quite right. He's opposing everything. He is unrelentingly negative. He's even opposed to the Government standing up for Kiwis at the petrol pump.You know for years the big fuel companies have been ripping off New Zealanders. Since 2008 the margins of the petrol companies have been going up and up and the National Government did absolutely nothing to stand up for ordinary Kiwis. But what shocked me this morning was how brazen Simon Bridges was on Morning Report. He said on Morning Report that he could have done something when he was the energy Minister about rising fuel prices but he said there were no easy options. He did absolutely nothing about it. No Commerce Commission investigation—oh actually let me correct that; he sent a stern letter to the fuel companies. Is it any surprise that during the very years he was the transport Minister and the energy Minister that importers' margins doubled during those years.Now after our Government actually commissioned an investigation by the Commerce Commission the Commerce Commission found that the market is broken it is not competitive and Simon Bridges wants us to do nothing. Now National may be happy to defend the big fuel companies but this Government is more interested in defending Kiwis against rampaging fuel prices.If only that was all there was. If only that was where it ends. But this morning we had Mr Bridges on national radio accusing Officers of Parliament of screwing the scrum. He said he wasn't going to hand over his deepest secrets and his strategies to Officers of Parliament. Now we're in trouble Mr Bridges. We're in trouble if he thinks that election policies can be secret during an election campaign. Even the National Party in drag—aka the Taxpayers' Union—thinks this policy is a good idea.We've seen Simon Bridges become ever more negative and desperate. He doesn't trust statistics he doesn't trust numbers he doesn't trust Officers of Parliament he doesn't trust Government departments he doesn't trust the Commerce Commission. He's clearly utterly paranoid after spending so long looking over his shoulder at Judith Collins. Today's National Party is brought to us by the letter D. National Party and Simon Bridges are divided desperate distracted and divisive. But there are more Ds. Simon Bridges has been dog whistling about the PM. So many of their MPs are departing and now Simon Bridges doesn't want to share his election policies with the public and that's just dodgy. No wonder the Advertising Standards Authority is spending so much time investigating the claims that have been made by the National Party on their Facebook ads.National are opposed to fuel taxes except when they're in Government and the House knows the House understands that the percentage increases that we have legislated in the fuel excise are exactly the same as the National Government legislated for three years in a row: 2013 2014 and 2015—exactly the same. But what makes it more misleading is that at the very time the National Government is saying they're going to slash fuel excise they are promising to build $12 billion worth of unfunded unplanned and unconsented roads. That's why Simon Bridges doesn't want to share his policies with the new Parliamentary Budget Office because he doesn't want to have to explain the numbers to them.