Kaye NikkiHon NIKKI KAYE (National—Auckland Central): I am very pleased to speak in this general debate. If that speech from Winston Peters wasn't an example of a distracted Government focused on conspiracy theories attacking the backbench instead of talking about the issues that matter to New Zealand I don't know what was. This is a Government that was an accidental Government and already within six months is engaging in spin because they don't have an agenda and because they promised far too much.Let me take my colleague Mr Hipkins—or shall I call him Trumpkins"—engaging in fake news. The facts are under our Government the education budget went from $8 billion to $11 billion. In early childhood education (ECE) it doubled—it went from $900 million to $1.8 billion. And school property—does Mr Hipkins remember the fact that when we came in we had no idea of the state of school property or of condition assessments across every school in New Zealand? The Auditor-General report shows that. We then went and invested a third more. We went from $3 billion to $5 billion. That member can start to release lists like unusable buildings but until he provides the detail he is just engaging in spin.But let's talk about the other issues that we know that this Government is focused on and what they say and what it actually means. Here are my top five Labour lines of spin. The first one: "It's not a tax; it's an excise." You try and tell the families in west Auckland that it doesn't mean increased costs for them. You try and tell families in South Auckland that their food isn't going to go up. Tell the people of Great Barrier Island who have $3 at the moment for their fuel that that doesn't mean increases.Then we heard about the billion trees: "We are going to plant a billion trees—but actually we haven't planted any because it's winter. It's winter so we haven't planted any trees yet. And half of them are going to be delivered by the private sector.""We're going to deliver 100000 houses—but actually we haven't built any houses yet. And half of them are going to be delivered by the private sector.""We had the numbers for the Speaker."—we had the numbers for the Speaker. On the first vote of this Parliament to show their amateurishness their inability to run this joint we saw them fail on that first vote. And what did they do? They then handed us most of the chairs of our select committees and numbers of select committee places.Again this Government is totally focused on spin. They don't have an agenda. They realise that they promised far too much and they have now got Treasury and a whole lot of public servants—we know; they talk to us also—in Wellington saying to them that you promised too much—SPEAKER: Order!Hon NIKKI KAYE: —that the Government promised too much. The numbers don't add up so what they're having to do is engage in spin. They're having to create fake news. They're having to rewrite history. They're having to ignore the fact that we had the Canterbury earthquakes ignore the fact that we had a decade of deficits ignore the fact that we increased the education budget every single year that we've been in office and create these stories to make up for the fact that they have to manage expectations in the Budget that they can't deliver on their promises.It's a Government of broken promises. It's a Government of spin. If you wanted to leave yourself with one final line which again many New Zealanders are saying "What are going to be the costs to my family as a result of this Government?"—because we know that they are looking at increasing taxes across the board. They said there would be no new taxes but the reality is that when they said no new taxes what they actually meant is no new additional taxes. The reality is that they are going to increase a range of existing taxes that are going to hurt people in their back pockets.We've heard in terms of business confidence that business confidence is slumping. What businesses are saying in Auckland Central and Waiheke and other parts of New Zealand is that between the minimum wage going up between the 90-day trial period going for businesses with over 20 employees and the additional costs in terms of fuel people can't cope. So this Government has to front up deal with the problems accept that they overpromised and stop spinning to New Zealanders because they deserve better."