Peters Winston: General Debates 
Peters Winston: General Debates 
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Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS (Leader—NZ First) 
: 
 I move  
That the House take note of miscellaneous business 
. Looking back over the past year at achievements by this politically correct apology for a Government we can only say that never before in the history of this once-great country have so many done so little so often for so few. [ 
Interruption 
] Whom did I plagiarise that from? Well not from Rod Donald. He is no wordsmith. He has a big mouth but he is no wordsmith. Labour once a great party of social and economic justice has been taken over by a collection of creatures from a political “Middle Earth” nightmare. This is a Government that is banal bent and full of weirdoes who deal in slogans jingles and clichés. 
Hon John Tamihere 
: Look in the mirror. 
Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS 
: No that is not my habit. That is the member’s habit—not mine. 
Real New Zealanders have become increasingly cynical about and disbelieving in the political process under this Government. No better is that illustrated than at question time in this House. There is no Western democracy where there is so little accountability where Ministers think question time is a joke and where they do their utmost to evade simple answers. 
Government Member 
: That’s not right. 
Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS 
: I wrote to the Minister of Immigration in what she claimed was the most recent correspondence—the operative word being “recent”—on 22 November. She wrote back and said that she had no idea of the fraudster I mentioned even though his brother an LLB from Dakar says that he is here. The brother may know that—and he knows the friends and relations—but of course the Minister does not know that and nor does her department. She boasted yesterday of catching eight people because of the department’s new early-warning system. That is eight out of how many? Well 190000 people came here last year all up and of that number in 4 months the department has found eight. The Minister is boasting about it. 
Hon Lianne Dalziel 
: It’s 2 million. 
Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS 
: Oh no she cannot say that. Those are tourists and visitors. The people down there in the ship right now are part of the 2 million people but I am talking about the 190000 that go into our register. 
Hon Judith Tizard 
: So they have marks on their heads have they? 
Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS 
: Oh no. What an excited laugh that member has. It is a bit of a give-away really. I cannot tell members what I think it is but it is a give-away. 
This Government is a bizarre group of political misfits—and there are no “Mr Fits” just “Miss Fits”—who have decided that New Zealand women aged 18 can become prostitutes but that they cannot have a smoke! To combat teenage drinking those no-hopers increased the price of port and sherry for the elderly. They have brought in tens of thousands of people from the Third World and from all over the world and planted them in Auckland. Then we have a Minister with responsibility for Auckland Issues. What has she done for Auckland? That must be the country’s best-kept secret. I ask members to name just one little thing that she has done for Auckland. Nothing! There is not a sound from over there on the Government benches. The Minister with responsibility for Auckland Issues has done nothing for Auckland. The Government brings in all these tens of thousands of people—40000 in 2002—parks them in Auckland and then claims it will get on top of Auckland’s roading problems. What a joke that is! The Government imposes laws by stealth. It pleads the United Nations. 
Ahmed Zaoui should never have arrived here; that has cost $200000 now. He will be in prison for a long long time. He was not turned around—and the Minister says she cannot tell us about him because the privacy laws prevent her from doing so. 
The Government has inflicted this country with an epidemic of political correctness which has created men out of women and women out of men. Now women can become fathers. There must be a biological advance I am not aware of but women now can become fathers. The hardest job in our future will be to train boys to become men. There is no accountability in this House. There is nothing but spin all the time—vituperation tirades and no facts. [ 
Interruption 
] Lianne Dalziel is giving a speech by way of interjection. Why will she not get up and defend herself? 
Opposition Member 
: She should resign. 
Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS 
: Yes she should resign. She is incompetent. She is the worst Minister of Immigration any Western nation has ever had.