Little Andrew: General DebateText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeLittle Andrew: General Debate[Sitting date: 03 December 2014. Volume:702;Page:1072. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]ANDREW LITTLE (Leader of the Opposition):We always love it when the Minister of Education the Hon Hekia Parata gets to her feet because the longer she stays in office the longer she stays in that job we know that the rest of New Zealand is desperate for a change and desperate for Chris Hipkins to take up the role and give us a decent education policy. She stands there and says that we have the most popular Prime Minister in a decade. He is the most slippery Prime Minister in a decade because he has been immersed in whale oil for far too long. He is slippery and blubbery and he is on his way out. He knows he has got 2 years left. He will step down and Steven Joyce will step up. They will go out in their final year and then New Zealand will have the Government that it truly deserves.We have been talking this week about the issues that New Zealanders really care about—issues that the Government opposite dare not talk to New Zealanders about because it does not have any ideas and it does not care about working people. We have been talking about jobs because jobs are important and they are the means that people in this country have to earn their livelihood to get ahead and to fulfil their dreams. That is important to us. We have always been the party of working people making sure that they can get ahead and fulfil their dreams. That party opposite has totally forgotten working New Zealanders. They are not just those on a wage or a salary but those trying to set up their own business those who are contractors those who work for themselves—but those members do not care. They do not care. Their only contribution to working life in New Zealand is that every time they get their miserable hands on a piece of employment law they make it worse. They make it worse. They take things off people. They make it harder. They make it more and more difficult for people to get ahead.Well I can tell those members opposite—and they have gone very quiet now because they know the truth is being spoken—that New Zealanders have had enough. [Interruption] David Bennett knows. David Bennett knows because he has sat there. Jonathan Young will find out because he now chairs the Transport and Industrial Relations Committee. They know that New Zealanders have had enough of the miserable the money-grubbing the shockingly desperate Government that can offer nothing to working New Zealanders. They are looking for something new. They are looking for something new. They want a Government that is thinking not just about the next election not just about the next year not just about how to get through the next week with more deception and more misleading and more making things up on the spot. They want a Government that is thinking about the issues that New Zealanders care about. They want to know that they have got a party in Parliament now that is thinking years ahead and that is thinking about the current generation of working people their kids and the next generation. That is what we are doing.We are going to go out there with all of the expertise that we have got the business people we have got on board—[Interruption] Oh no—oh no you see. They are so out of touch and so arrogant. They are so out of touch they have lost touch with their base and their community. Business people are crying out for a party that takes the future of work seriously. They have got one now that is going to talk to business talk to the community talk to working people talk to their organisations and unions and start finding out from New Zealanders how we pave the way to make sure that they get a decent opportunity they can get ahead they can get a decent income and their kids can actually have a real chance and a real opportunity.Brett Hudson: That’s right—and Labour’s going to promise them five new taxes.ANDREW LITTLE: Hollering from the back blocks ain’t going to help brother. Hollering from the back blocks is not going to help because New Zealanders want a party that is going to listen and they have got that. Grant Robertson and the senior MPs in Labour and all the members of Labour will be getting around and talking to the communities because people now want to have a talk. People want to have their input into some answers about the longstanding questions they have about work. We are not going to be tied up in silly practices or trying to keep our mates outside Parliament sweet because they have locked up all our emails and all our text messages. We are not worried about that. That is that Government. It is on its way out. New Zealanders want a party with some answers. New Zealanders want a party that is going to listen. New Zealanders want a party that cares about their future prosperity and their future prospects and in Labour they have got it. We are on our way we are up and running and it is going to be good. New Zealanders will love it. It is all going to happen here.