SpeechHon DAVID BENNETT (National): Thank you Mr Speaker. I find it quite disgusting and reprehensible what Labour and the Green Party are doing here today. They are actually going out there to the most vulnerable workers in our community and saying to them Look at us. We're looking after you. This is a plan for you." when it will do the exact opposite. This is a failed policy that basically sent the country bankrupt in the 1970s and it was the Labour Party that actually turned that around by having the reforms of the mid-1980s. We can't wind the clock back and say that those reforms were wrong; they were followed around the world. And the economic growth and success New Zealand had in the last generation has been a direct result from those changes. It really gets me that the Labour Party comes in here and does these speeches about how they're there for the most vulnerable workers and "Look at us. We're going to look after you." What it's actually going to do is actually hurt the most vulnerable workers because what's going to happen from this is there'll be less production in New Zealand there'll be higher costs and the people that actually take the hit on that occasion are the most vulnerable workers. There will be inflation out of this. They've just said it's about raising wages. That means inflation. OK you want inflation at a time that you've got more inflation? The only people that really get hurt are the ones that have no assets low incomes and are stuck at the bottom. That's what's going to happen. You're going to hurt the very people that all these speeches are saying you're trying to help. Then what is going to happen next? It only needs 1000 workers in one industry to set this up. This enables compulsory unionism in areas that the Government hasn't been able to get into. Michael Wood's eyes just raised then. He was on TV this weekend saying he wants to get rid of the contractors in certain cases—don't you? We know that's the plan. This is part of that plan. They want to take away the competitive pressure of the New Zealand economy. They say competition doesn't matter. Competition is bad. That's what we've heard from all these speeches. Well let's go out in the world and sell our products and say on them—and put a little logo saying—"We don't compete." How are we going to sell those products? Do you think they're going to buy our milk and our other products just because we say we don't compete? Anna Lorck: Quality.Hon DAVID BENNETT: Quality—quality? Quality is about price and value. If you take up the price because you're doing this then you're going to artificially destroy the New Zealand economy. It's what happened in the 1970s. The rest of the world has thrown it away. They do not believe in this because they know it does not work. This is blind ideology from a Labour Party that has to pay back the unions. We all know that the Labour Party is now dominated by the union movement. It's not the Labour Party of the old that actually represented a mix of New Zealanders; it's a Labour Party that the unions control they fund and they own it. And this is the payback to the unions.Hon Michael Wood: Point of order. For the second time in this debate an allegation has been made that members of this side are owned and controlled by a force outside of this Parliament. That is in direct contravention of Speakers' rulings. Hon Todd McClay: Point of order Mr Speaker. Speaking to the point of order. Just for clarity perhaps the member could tell the House the selection process for Labour MPs where unions are sitting there selecting.ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Ian McKelvie): I remind the member that is not a point of order and—Hon DAVID BENNETT: Well let's look at the selection of the leader. It's done by the union movement.ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Ian McKelvie): The member will just be seated. So I just remind the member and I'll ask him to withdraw and apologise because he was accusing him—he'll know what he was saying. I've asked him to withdraw and apologise.Hon DAVID BENNETT: What was I accusing—Mr Speaker what was the problem? ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Ian McKelvie): I'll ask you to withdraw and apologise and if you don't—Hon DAVID BENNETT: I withdraw and apologise.ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Ian McKelvie): Thank you.Hon DAVID BENNETT: What other business is their leadership determined by an organisation is funded by an organisation and doesn't have any control over that organisation? Maybe that's the world we live in where there's no competition. There's this ideological place that lasts. This is dumb policy. It's going to hurt the most vulnerable and the Labour Party and Green Party should be disgraced and disgusted in the way that they use these people in these speeches to try and promote plans and policies that are only for their own personal gain."