English Bill: General DebateText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeEnglish Bill: General Debate[Sitting date: 22 August 2007. Volume:641;Page:11359. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]Hon BILL ENGLISH (Deputy Leader—National): So in our changing world with the globalised economy the highest interest rates in the developed world and financial instability from here to London here is the big question: did John Key live in Remuera in March 2002? That is it! That is it! Did John Key live in Remuera in March 2002?Hon Trevor Mallard: Is he telling the truth?Hon BILL ENGLISH: I want to tell Mr Mallard what the good voters of Wainuiōmata have as an answer. It is: “Who cares?”. Their other question is: “Trevor why do you care when you always said you cared about ‘me’?”. And that is the problem for the Labour Government. That speech tells everyone who voted Labour that Labour has stopped caring about the voters and cares only and obsessively now about the survival of the Labour Government.The reason we had Mr Hodgson today is that Phil Goff’s performance in the last 10 days has resembled a dog that goes off to chase the traffic and hits a parked car. So today we had the next best shot from the Labour Party Darren Hughes. He was the man who got up in question time and made the big hit. When Labour voters realise that the person Helen Clark is putting into the front line on behalf of low and middle income New Zealanders—people who face 18 months of going backwards between now and the next election—is Darren Hughes then those voters too will start leaving the Labour Party.You see my colleague and our leader John Key is absolutely right. When everyone else thought that the Labour Government was trawling through the policy options to improve the lot of New Zealanders who are now going to pay the price of mismanaged growth it was in fact trawling through the rubbish bins and the Companies Register to try to find another way to trip up a politician whom they simply cannot deal with. That is why it is getting personal and nasty and Trevor Mallard needs to understand thatwhenever he or his colleagues are on TV attacking John Key our support goes up not down.The voters want to see a positive forward-looking vision of New Zealand what potential it has and where it can go rather than see a tired fag-end worn-out bunch of Labour elitists who are only ever worried about where they have been and what jobs they might get between now and the election. That is all summed up by the Electoral Finance Bill. Helen Clark has done nothing more self-serving—more for the Labour Party and against the people—than to bring in that legislation. She has written a piece of legislation that makes sure that her useless Minister—what is his name?Hon David Carter: Burton.Hon BILL ENGLISH: —that he and Trevor Mallard will get to spend $65000 of public money in their electorates next year advertising themselves; and the National candidate will be allowed to spend only $20000. In fact those members will get to spend $85000 $65000 of which is public money. In the electorate of Taupō the National candidate will win.The Government has become totally self-serving and totally inward-looking. I feel sorry for the voters it has deserted because the people who have loyally voted for Labour and expected some kind of reward for it after 8 years have been deserted. Back in 2000 people on the average wage—loyal Labour voters for three elections—were paying 19 percent of their income in tax; now they are paying 23 percent of their income in tax. Their interest rates are going up and their purchasing power is dropping. And if Mr Mallard is worried about the polling now well the bite has not even come yet. [Interruption]