Bennett David: General DebateText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeBennett David: General Debate[Sitting date: 09 April 2014. Volume:697;Page:17056. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]DAVID BENNETT (National—Hamilton East):That member David Parker could not use even 5 minutes. The best person in the Labour Party could not use even 5 minutes in the general debate. That is a party from the past. As Bill English said it is a party from the past—a party from the 1970s. Well it is better than its coalition partners. Winston Peters was in his prime in the 1970s. He is actually out of it now but the 1970s were his best years. And the Green Party—well the Green Party is actually from the 1930s because if you look at it it wants to go back to Stalinism and communism and 5-year plans. It wants the central planning of the world.The Green Party the New Zealand First Party and the Labour Party represent a vision that is gone. They represent the past. New Zealand wants a future. New Zealanders want leadership. They want a young inspired country that looks forward and takes its place in the world. That is what the National Party offers. That is why the Labour Party the New Zealand First Party and the Green Party are struggling where they are because they do not represent New Zealanders’ desire to look forward and have a strong and developed and wonderful country.Look at Hamilton—Hamilton is the future of New Zealand the city of the future. Remember those words. Hamilton represents that dynamic forward-thinking progressive country that we will represent. National is giving Hamilton the ability to be that forward-thinking place. We are building the Waikato Expressway and everybody from Hamilton and the Waikato should listen to this. I will say this again and again for the next 5 months: the Labour Party will not build the Waikato Expressway. The Hamilton bypass and the Huntly bypass are due for contract in 2015.If you were the Labour Party looking for $1.3 billion where do you get it from? You tell the people of the Waikato “No expressway.” That is what the Labour Party members are thinking. I bet you that is what they are thinking. I challenge the Labour Party members to stand in this House before the end of this parliamentary session and say that they will fund the Waikato Expressway next year. Will you do that? No way. There is no way they can do that.Waikato and Hamilton have the most to lose in this election. If we do not get a National Government re-elected that road goes back 30 years to the 1970s where it is on the plans but it does not actually happen. That is what the Labour Party wants. It wants us to dream of a road as it did in the 1970s.Sue Moroney: They’re worried in Hamilton.DAVID BENNETT: Well we make it a reality Sue Moroney and I want to see somebody in the Labour Party come out and say that before the next election.The other thing we get is that we have schools. We are building new schools in north Hamilton for the growing population of that city. I see it as very rich for the Labour Party members to come in here today and go on about those Christchurch schools and talk about the community’s wishes. I know that when the Labour Party was in Government Sue Moroney stood on a bit of land and had this article in the paper saying: “This would be a lovely place for a school.” But did she do anything about it? No. It was only when we came in that we bought the land and we built the school and we are going to give the people what they deserve and what they need.The New Zealand National Party delivers the future for cities like Hamilton that are the future of New Zealand.Hon Annette King: We bought the land.DAVID BENNETT: No you did not buy the land. You did not buy the land. We have got Annette King here. I want to see Annette King stand up and put in front of this House the piece of paper saying the Labour Party bought the land for the secondary school because it did not. That Minister the Hon Anne Tolley bought it and I can tell you that. No no you cannot do that Annette. None of that rubbish in this House.We are looking at a diverse open successful modern country going forward. Hamilton is an example of that. We do not want the 1970s approach which does not build the Waikato Expressway. We do not want the 1970s approach of politics which is all about personal attacks. We do not want the 1930s approach of politics which is Stalinism. We want a modern free and open world and country and that is what we are going to get under a John Key - led Government. Thank you.