Bridges SimonGENERAL DEBATEHon SIMON BRIDGES (Leader of the Opposition): I move That the House take note of miscellaneous business.If ever there was an example of a Government just six months in but already tired out of ideas—if they ever had one—and looking like a Government that's been there for 11½ years it's Megan Woods who just told us that not only do they not have any ideas; they just reheat our ones. I thought using our laws in Parliament was bad enough—the only laws this Government passes are laws from the last National Government. But we've had an admission from the last question and answer in this Parliament today that actually all this Government's got are reheated programmes from the last National Government.This is a Government that is dripping with good intentions. The Ardern-Peters Government—do they mean well? Do they want to do well? Yes I think they do. But have they got zero plans to take this country forward and make a difference on the difficult issues that we have? Of course they have zero plans.As I say Jacinda Ardern I think cares but the team has nothing.Rt Hon Winston Peters: All Brylcreem and no socks.Hon SIMON BRIDGES: So what do they do? Well they reheat our programmes and—Mr Peters being part of it—there are reviews commissions inquiries and working groups. Six months—just six months—into this new Government how many working groups and commissions are there?Hon Members: How many?Hon SIMON BRIDGES: Well one a month would be six. Six? Twelve? Twenty-four? There have been 45 reviews commissions and working groups and yet no real plans. No homes from the Minister sitting over there—not a single one has been started under his Government. No new transport initiatives Phil Twyford; no trees from Shane Jones—absolutely no plan and no clarity for this country over the next 2½ years.I tell you some people are happy with this Government. If you're a consultant who writes reports in Wellington you're doing really well. If you're importing paper for the commissions of inquiry your business is going through the roof but most New Zealanders know Ron Mark that there is zero progress under this Government. There is very little happening. After nine long years in Opposition Ron Mark got better at sudoku but he didn't do the work required. They had four-day weekends. They didn't do the policy required to make sure they had a Government with initiatives that take New Zealand forward and make a difference.They have achieved one thing. Ron Mark Winston Peters and Jacinda Ardern have achieved one thing in their short six months in Government: they have comprehensively undermined business confidence in this country.Rt Hon Winston Peters: Ha ha!Hon SIMON BRIDGES: If there were one or two issues Winston Peters—if it was just immigration if it was just employment law if it was just the overseas investment changes that you've been talking about for so long—I think business could live with that. Business and the jobs they created know that they can take a few changes and keep on moving. They want to work with the Government. That's what they tell me. They want to be there with the Government but this week alone this Government has taken a wrecking ball to the New Zealand economy cavalierly and for political purposes slicing off a segment of our economy in the oil and gas sector with no clarity on what's happening there. And then today Shane Jones was recklessly bullying Air New Zealand a listed company in this country simply for his own political purposes. If business wasn't worried Winston Peters a week ago well I tell you what: they are now. They are now.It was economic vandalism we have seen this week for political capital and political purposes and we won't make those mistakes in this party. We know that we have to take the time right now to be out there with New Zealanders listening to what they're saying engaging with them all over the length and breadth of this country and coming out with a positive set of plans for New Zealand in 2020. We're energised on this side of the House. We know that in 2½ years we can win the next election and make New Zealand a much much better place.