Faafoi KrisHon KRIS FAAFOI (Minister of Civil Defence): Thank you Mr Speaker. As the last speaker in this general debate I find myself in the position of taking the post-match commentary position on some of the speeches from that side of the House and some from this side of the House. I think it can be best summed up for members on the Government side of the House that we're part of a strong team—that we've had a great start to this parliamentary year at Waitangi and in getting through our 100-day programme.I think the theme that I would pick up from the other side of the House is don't mention the war" because there is one going on across that side of the House. I think it was a little bit rich of Lawrence Yule to stand up in this House and within the first 30 seconds accuse this side of the House of "avoiding the issue". Ha ha! There is an issue on that side of the House and I do want to tackle that and say that I do respect the decision that the Rt Hon Bill English has made and I respect him as a politician. Every year when I have been sworn in after a general election I have the honour of being sworn in with Mr English and I shake his hand because I do have respect for him and I do want to note that here in the House.But I do think that the Rt Hon Bill English has been treated shabbily by his caucus—shabbily by his caucus. I'm at pains to point out the anatomy of this coup against Mr English because there's someone in this House who started it all off who I have quite a lot of respect for—the member for Invercargill Sarah Dowie. An innocent comment started this whole ball rolling. When asked when leaving a select committee Sarah Dowie said the innocent words of "Look there's been a little bit of talk." Just that little half a sentence from Sarah Dowie meant the game was all on and we know it was on because Sarah Dowie is a very truthful person and she got caught out telling the truth.Over Christmas a lot of them were talking about it and then when Mr English was giving his state of the nation speech a couple of Wednesdays ago boom—someone spruiked the speech. Now who was it—who was it?—and why would they do it? It's pretty obvious that there was unrest in the National caucus. Bill had done his best but they realised he wasn't the man for the job so when Bill was about to take centre stage someone from that side of the House said "We're not going to let Bill have it all his own way." So Sarah Dowie and then this spruiking of his speech all added up to something being amiss in the National caucus.I respect the decision that Mr English has made but now it's all on and now there are a whole lot of people who have never had phone calls from senior members of the National caucus who all of a sudden are getting phone calls every five minutes—because that's how it works in their caucus. There are three or four runners I know now. I think "JC" tried to get out and have first-mover advantage—not that "JC" but Judith Collins. She tried to get out and get first-mover advantage on Twitter today but I think it's not looking good for her given—and it may be news to some of the members who are in the House because they may not have seen this because they think something else is the issue of the day—Amy Adams has also announced her candidacy for the leadership. Apparently standing behind her were Maggie Barry Chris Bishop Tim Macindoe and Nikki Kaye.So I think if I put my former political reporter's hat back on that's bad news for "Slick" and when I say "Slick" I mean Simon Bridges who was up until about 35 minutes ago the front runner for the leader of the National Party. But it seems—and if the party wants generational change— Hon Willie Jackson: Māori's going to miss out.Hon KRIS FAAFOI: —Amy Adams has got it. Now I do want to point out the speech from Willie Jackson that they haven't taken his suggestion of looking for a Māori leader to lead them to the 2020 election.Hon Willie Jackson: Jami-Lee.Hon KRIS FAAFOI: He did mention Jami-Lee; I don't think Jami-Lee is going to run. But here's the rub: Judith Collins is not going to sit and watch Amy Adams just take it so easily; neither is Simon Bridges. So it's going to get ugly until it comes to a head and it's going to get ugly for the National caucus. So the phone batteries of the members of the National caucus are going to go very flat very fast over the next three or four days because they are going to get lobbied heavily by both—I think the front runners now are Amy and Simon. SPEAKER: Order!Hon KRIS FAAFOI: Amy Adams and Simon Bridges. So—Erica Stanford: Is that all you've been thinking about today? Come on what else is new?Hon KRIS FAAFOI: Ha! Erica Stanford thinks that charter schools are the issue of the day. I would suggest you go to the New Zealand Herald and Stuff websites and figure out that the failed leader of the next National Government is about to be chosen.The debate having concluded the motion lapsed."