Dean Jacqui: General DebateText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeDean Jacqui: General Debate[Sitting date: 19 February 2014. Volume:696;Page:16079. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]JACQUI DEAN (National—Waitaki): That was a particularly awful and distasteful intervention from Parliament’s most prominent landlady Annette King. You know the truth is that if you cannot run your own caucus then you simply cannot hope to run the country. It is as simple as that. We on the National side of Parliament are working hard around the traps day after day and the message coming back to us loud and clear dayafter day after day is: “What on earth is Labour up to? Has it not learnt a thing since the last time it was in Government?”.At the very moment that we get a lift in the economy—and that is thanks to John Key and Bill English—Labour just wants to start spending the money all over again. So it is just a couple of weeks into the new year and Labour and the Greens have promised to spend the thick end of three-quarters of a billion dollars a year. That was just their spending promises in January—that was just January. Three-quarters of a billion dollars of extra spending—that is Labour and the Greens. But even with his rather transparent election bribes Mr Cunliffe simply cannot get it right. Do you remember his baby bonus policy?Jami-Lee Ross: Baby bribe.JACQUI DEAN: Baby bribe bonus policy—thank you. Well it certainly sounded very generous. In fact I was almost contemplating restarting my family. I mean it is never too late. I could have done with the bonus. But anyway it certainly sounded really generous and he certainly let the media think so. In fact they printed all the lines.But he got offside with them after that of course. Read the fine print and it ended up being just a little bit tricky—and then he blamed his staff. Oh what a guy. He got found out for being tricky with his policy. What did he do? Did he front up like a man? Did he front up like a true leader? Did he what! What did he do? He blamed his staff. Oh how appalling. Gosh no wonder they are all leaving. You know it must be absolutely gutting to have Shane Jones hogging the media for—how long has it been? Nearly a week—nearly a week with Shane Jones hogging the media. There must be a lot of those in the Labour caucus with absolutely sinking hearts. Do you think that in their heart of hearts they are beginning to realise that once again they have just chosen the wrong guy? Well the latest Fairfax poll has Labour at around 30 percent. That is one off from 29 percent. That is not very good. That is no better than it was under David Shearer. [Interruption] So over on the other side of the House those members must be really worried. You are right—their heads are down.Do you know what? New Zealanders are not stupid. They can see what they would get under a Labour-Greens Government. What they would get are big spending promises that mean big borrowing. That would mean big taxes which of course those members would give back to us as welfare and policies that will utterly shut down the productive sector. So mining agriculture and fisheries will all have this great big green sanctimonious hand come right down on top of them with policies that are centred around what they cannot do any more for the New Zealand economy. Both parties want less competition in the energy market. So obviously electricity prices will go up and obviously investment will go down and they will implement an emissions trading scheme that will put household energy bills up by—how much? By $500 a year.Jami-Lee Ross: How much?JACQUI DEAN: By $500 a year. What they should be talking about—what this Government is talking about—is growing the economy creating new jobs getting the crime rate down getting more bang for your buck from our public services getting more elective surgeries getting welfare dependency down and getting more kids leaving school qualified so that they can get further training and have the brighter future that they are having under this Government.