Peters Winston: AdjournmentText is incorporated into the Bound VolumePeters Winston: Adjournment[Sitting date: 31 July 2014. Volume:700;Page:19813. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS (NZ First):I want to pass on our regards to all retiring colleagues and wish them the very best. To those soon to retire bad luck but that is what politics is like—and there are going to be a few I can assure you. I want to say also to get rid of the debris of organisation that those who want to see a change in this country and a real change will be at the Kelston Community Centre at 1.30 on 10 August for our launch. It is just common sense.Hon Gerry Brownlee: What’s the address? What’s the street number?Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS: No no Mr Brownlee. If you want to come you will have to get there early because it is going to be wall-to-wall. It will not be like those telephone-booth meetings you have been having where you say something or cough and they report it. No no; we respond to market demand.First of all let us be very clear that New Zealand First wants to thank all the many people whose commitment integrity and professionalism here ensures that Parliament runs in a smooth and seamless way. Thanks to everyone in the Speaker’s office. Thanks to everyone in the Clerk’s Office the Hansard reporters all the library staff and the telephonists. We acknowledge especially all the messengers and their helpful cheerful manner around these parliamentary precincts. We thank also the security guard team for keeping us safe here and above all we give a special thanks to the cleaners who deserve a pay rise. We will deliver them a pay rise as soon as this election is over. Our apologies if we have forgotten anybody.We appreciate all of those who are part of the parliamentary community and enable us to operate as an effective political party and keep these people honest—it is not the easiest job there is. It is not an easy job at all. We support the dedication of our staff in our own office who have made this year for New Zealand First yet again a successful one and as you know we will be celebrating our 21st birthday tonight.Hon Member: That’ll be untidy.Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS: Unlike the National Party we do not get drunk on a wine biscuit. In this Parliament we have been a firm and outspoken Opposition party whilst always being constructive. We have been unafraid to tackle contentious issues; areas such as for example what others regard as taboo: Whānau Ora wholesale immigration scandal after scandal in the Immigration Service and the Treaty industry. This has been the party with the resounding message. It is the party that people in this country can rely upon the one that has the record—not just a dog whistle when it gets worried but a consistent record through these last 21 years.We have spoken for the ordinary people of this country the people whom the National Government has consistently chosen to ignore and overlook and I know personally that the National Party’s political support is soft. It is seriously soft. It is below where it was at this time for the last election and on the present basis it is seriously in trouble as some of the inside body language shows. Mr Key called an early election. He called an election and he said it was to calibrate it with the APEC agenda. That was false—Steven Joyce let it out of the bag. He said “Oh our supporters were going to the beach.” so he fixed that one. You see how deceitful they are? They called a snap election on the basis of their political advantage. They have had 6 years at the helm and there is an old saying “Pride cometh before a fall”.David Bennett: You should know about it.Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS: There is Mr Bennett laughing now but I know his knees are shaking—I know his knees are shaking. The question is: do their policies deserve another term? The answer is “What policies?”. The answer is a resounding no. Why give their policies more time to do more damage? We are on a slide. There is $150 billion of debt and they are smiling. National debt—that is the Government debt—is up six times to $60 billion and they call themselves proficient managers. They are unbelievable. They are bereft of ideas and intent only on helping their well-connected mates and cronies. That is what is going to lose them the election—they have looked after their own. But this time is for those that have been abandoned and forgotten or as the famous Australian Prime Minister Menzies called them “those forgotten New Zealanders.” They are going to go out on election day they are going to express their anger and they are most definitely not voting for the National Party.Our correspondence our emails and our contacts say that they know to hang on for just 7 more weeks because help is on its way in the form of New Zealand First. This is what National’s record is: massive debt—massive Government debt—and homeownership rates that are the worst since 1951 when Holland was the new Prime Minister. Then there is all that incompetence—the bread and butter of this administration is total incompetence. “Mr Fix-it” was going to fix up Novopay. He is an ace. Of course every morning he gets up and he points towards Pakuranga and bows to a man called Maurice Williamson who made him the multimillionaire he is. That is another story but when I hear these stories about how competent they are and how much business experience they have I do my investigations and we know how he got his money.Novopay—what a fiasco. The $800-million South Canterbury Finance blowout—$800 million and they would not have an inquiry. They refused to have an inquiry as to the incompetence of Ministers or Treasury. In short they made an underwriting arrangement with South Canterbury Finance and did not cap the underwriting document.David Bennett: And who gave it?Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS: Mr Bennett says “Who gave it?”. Look at your colleagues. What have you been doing in caucus? I mean do you go to caucus to eat your lunch? Go and ask the Ministers: “Why did you incompetent bozos lose my people—the taxpayers of Hamilton East and West—$800 million?”. That is called “accountability”. No of course this is a National Party that has this feature: it asks a nice guy like Goldsmith to stand in a seat and pull down his hoardings. How politically cuckolded could you get? To use an old English expression how politically cuckolded could you get?Mike Sabin: Tell us about Ron Mark.Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS: I want to tell Mr Sabin that he is in trouble in his electorate as well. He wanted to move to Whangarei because he is not popular. He has not got John Carter’s skills. No he is not popular in Dargaville Kaihu and all those places. I know because they keep on saying: “Winston when are you going to put up a candidate? We don’t like this guy.” When the Mangawhai Heads people got into trouble what did he do? He just deserted them. He just deserted them. Those Mangawhai people in their thousands are most definitely not voting for any party that did not help them. But one party did: New Zealand First.This country’s sovereignty has been so compromised by National. We have so many people who are non-citizens and are allowed to buy into this country buy property and cause a massive housing bubble in Auckland. From Kaitāia to Invercargill they are paying high interest rates—four rises in the CPI already. From Kaitāia to Invercargill they are paying high interest rates—because of what? Because of National’s open-door policy for immigration and offshore buying of Auckland homes. What a farce.Soon the people of this country are going to get one of those glorious things that in the canvas of history has been most rare: a democratic vote. If you look down the ages of history having a vote at an election is a rare privilege. But they are going to get it and they coming out with a vengeance. I want to tell the media one thing. If any reports are out there that New Zealand First is in discussions with any other political party any such report will be to use Geoffrey Palmer’s famous words spreading rumour with malice. It will be false. It will be an intentional lie on the part of that journalist. It will have no basis whatsoever.Only one party is independent in this Parliament and its name is New Zealand First—its name is New Zealand First. That is why hundreds of thousands of New Zealand are going to show up some of the people in the press gallery on 20 September—because they are coming out and they are going to make sure that this time their voices are heard. Our commitment to them is that we will not let them down.