Williamson Maurice; Carter DavidHon MAURICE WILLIAMSON (National—Pakuranga): Can I first of all give a huge thankyou to the whips for allowing me once again to speak in Auckland's drive time. I said to the senior whip that it used to be Auckland's drive time when he let me speak around 4 or 4.30. In Auckland right now it does not matter what time in the House you speak it is Auckland's peak drive time where you are stuck in traffic. But I do thank the whip for that. I want to entitle my speech today—because I think every good speech should have a title—and the title of my speech today is going to be Peace for Our Time version 2". I am reminded of "Peace for Our Time version 1" and that was by a man called Neville Chamberlain coming back from Germany arriving in England. He said: "I have in my hand a piece of paper—just one piece of paper—and this is going to give us an agreement. It is a sort of memorandum of understanding with the other side where we can work together cooperatively." I have never ever been more reminded of that than last week or the week before when I saw Andrew Little out in the foyer of this building with a piece of paper in his hand saying: "We have got an agreement." I have never seen a piece of paper worth less than that piece of paper—including the one Neville Chamberlain had—because it did not say anything. It did not say anything. He said: "We're going to work together Labour and the Greens." I actually thought they had been doing that for a decade or more. They had to put it down on a piece of paper a memorandum of understanding. They said they would cooperate more and be nice to each other—I thought they already were. I already thought they were. God knows what they were doing beforehand if they needed to get a memorandum of understanding for it. But when any two organisations merge—and before I came to this place I saw a number of airlines merge. They had to get agreement on what was this part of the service that they would drop and what part would another one pick up and when they went to the public with their offering the public knew what they were getting. The public knew exactly what they were getting and said: "This is quite good." But we do not have a clue what this two-headed—and it has to have more than two heads we have already been told. Andrew Little told us—he told us. It is not monogamous. It is not monogamous. I know that some members over that side of the House think monogamy is something you make a dining room table out of but I know what monogamy is and this arrangement is not monogamous. It is going to require some others in the relationship. I first of all had a think about the colours because when you are merging two things you should look at the merger. Does anybody know the chromatic scale of what happens when you mix red with green?Tim Macindoe: Brown.Hon MAURICE WILLIAMSON: No wrong. It is not brown. Tim Macindoe: Dark brown.Hon MAURICE WILLIAMSON: Well it is close. It is yellow if you have a look at the chromatic scale but it is at the Karitane yellow end of yellow. Any of you who have changed nappies over the years will know what the Karitane yellow end of yellow can look like. That Karitane yellow heads towards the brown scale only if you tip a bit of black in it. And that is what will probably have to be added to it in order for it to be of any value. When I see the policies that are so divergent between them I ask the poor old voter of New Zealand to think what it is that they would get. What is it we would get if we voted for this memorandum of understanding? Would we get those who are supportive of free-trade agreements like David Shearer and Phil Goff and that who think free-trade agreements are great? Or would we get the lunatic end of the Greens who think free-trade agreements are evil and disgraceful and wrong? Which one would we get? Or would we get a free-trade agreement that was for only one year and then for another year it would not be and then it would be an on and off agreement so that both parties could get it? How would the voter ever know what they were going to get? I have to say that Neville Chamberlain's piece of paper had a lot more value to it for his "Peace for Our Time" than this memorandum of understanding has. What I also want to say to Labour is that you cannot come to this House all the time criticising policies like the refugee numbers increase where we have gone from 750 to 1000. And yet for—listen to this—12 years in office—Hon Annette King: You used to. You did for 9 years.Hon MAURICE WILLIAMSON: Now I have my colleague saying "No it was only 9." No no. They made the change in 1987 so from 1987 to 1990 and then from 1999 to 2008—that is 12 years—they did not change it. I have to say and the public in New Zealand say what crocodile tears. What a shipload of rubbish that is to—Mr SPEAKER: The member's time—[Interruption] Order! The member's time has expired."