Jones Shane: General DebateText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeJones Shane: General Debate[Sitting date: 17 April 2013. Volume:689;Page:9444. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]Hon SHANE JONES (Labour): Jackie Blue thank you for bringing Paul Quinn back and improving the intellectual capacity of the National Party. Up and down the country and around the rowdy halls and the lonely places formerly known as the Labour electorate committee of the National Party they are happy that Paul Quinn is going back into that side of the House. But they are disappointed that the former spokesperson who is soon to disappear on to something else did not go to see Mrs Thatcher and her family and compare handbags. I could imagine Gerry Brownlee not actually going and seeing Judith Collins going and actually celebrating the connection that she no doubt had with Baroness Thatcher—not intellect not forcefulness and not leadership but accoutrements such as handbags.I want to turn to the Prime Minister who is not unlike “The Fisherman of Parliament”. Like “The Fisherman of Parliament” he does not focus. Most fishermen focus on whoppers but when he tells one he pretends that it is a tiddler—a small lie a small untruth. But in actual fact up and down the country in families marae and businesses they know that this person this Prime Minister can no longer be trusted. It is an arcane area when you talk about spies police agencies etc. But when you consistently stand up in this House and your body language gives it away and your colleagues are starting to look down—even if it does cause my Radio Live colleagueJudith Collins to look up believing perhaps that she is the Baroness Thatcher of 2014. When you see that person looking down fudging cannot find the exact words you know the poll results in their own data collection are going only one way. They are going the way—not only down but also as Paul Quinn rises their fortunes slip. It could be that that is the final feature they have to offer given the poor performance.It is not unreasonable that the Prime Minister should take a delegation and be patriotic in Asia to drum up business but do not go there and declare war on North Korea. It is not unreasonable that the Prime Minister would want to shoulder-tap someone whom he may think is a reasonable applicant for a very important position but do not come to this House and hide that. Do not come to this House and conceal that and then get panicked into making a half-baked admission and then go overseas and pretend that neither he nor Steven Joyce knew anything about the leaks. Those are not the hallmarks of a Prime Minister.But anyway we have heard up and down the country the promise that the sale of these assets is going to improve the economy that energy prices will become less of a burden and that jobs will flow. I can tell you that up and down the country people loathe the idea of paying higher prices for power. People loathe the idea that foreigners are going to end up owning more of our assets as a direct consequence of that side of the House. Those members want only one thing. They want to hock off these assets reward a narrow caste of their fellow travellers and they do not give a hoot about the long-suffering garden-variety Kiwis who cannot afford property in Auckland cannot meet escalating medical-related costs and cannot find jobs.In the forestry sector 18000 jobs are at stake—18000 jobs are about to dwindle. This Minister for the Environment for example boasts that the Resource Management Act reforms are going to deliver new opportunity. For 4 years as a small example the forestry sector has been waiting for an environmental policy statement to simplify the functioning of the forestry sector. Not a dicky-bird. Mills and manufacturing plants up and down the country will applaud the announcement that energy costs are going to come down because they are getting no leadership no assistance—no assistance from this Government.If people do not like those reforms then they are going to have an opportunity to give their views. It is called an election. That is one reform where support will come massively our way because there is not a single idea that is lessening the burden of daily life on Kiwis and certainly not from this Prime Minister who is a stranger to the truth.