Bridges SimonGENERAL DEBATEHon SIMON BRIDGES (Leader of the Opposition): I move That the House take note of miscellaneous business.Another week in this Government and another shambles.Hon Grant Robertson: Ha ha!Hon SIMON BRIDGES: Oh he laughs. Last week it was the regional fuel tax flip-flop. We've still got no idea what's happened. Was it last week? Was it some other week? We've got no idea and Phil Twyford doesn't either.This week: How about we grant a gangster fraudster drug-peddling crook residency in this country? And then to top it off why don't we flip-flop on it?" because that's what we've seen from the Government today. I'll tell you what really gets me—[Interruption] Oh they're angry; they know they've got it wrong. That's why Iain Lees-Galloway was hiding behind a pillar from the media this afternoon. That's why he was hiding. What really gets me about this decision is that there are thousands of great people throughout this country families from early childhood education through teaching through the trades—thousands of them—who work hard who pay their taxes and who love their families and they're not getting residency from Iain Lees-Galloway. They're working. They're not smuggling drugs they're not hanging out with Hell's Angels and there's nothing for them and yet this guy who's done all that—Iain Lees-Galloway inexplicably granted them residency. I've got a question—Rt Hon Winston Peters: Why'd you let him in?Hon SIMON BRIDGES: You'll get your turn and I hope Mr Peters that you speak about Karel Sroubek. I hope you give us five minutes on him. He knows how embarrassing this is. He knows how wrong this decision is how shabby what his Government has done is. But I've got a question for the Prime Minister and it's simply this: how on earth did this happen? Iain Lees-Galloway I think I know—he didn't do the work. He did not do the work. It was an incompetent and naive decision from this Government like so many we've seen before.Here's what we know: his basic view is that well he might be harmed when he goes back to the Czech Republic. Well that's preposterous given the state of the Czech Republic today: a First World civilized country under the rule of law. But it's worse than that: he did go back. He went back to the Czech Republic. He was so scared about what happened that he went back.Hon Phil Twyford: They've given up.Hon SIMON BRIDGES: Oh Phil Twyford says "No no no—we still got it right." Is that what he's saying? He thinks they got it right? Then why'd Iain Lees-Galloway look so bad? He looked like he'd had some online bullying from Phil Twyford. That's what I think happened because they know how incompetent and naive that decision was.And there are no excuses. Iain Lees-Galloway should have known. He should've had as his priority New Zealanders being safe. It's pretty simple actually. Nothing's changed. He should've had all the facts. He's made a terrible decision. Yes I agree with the Prime Minister: Ministers make and have to make big calls in areas like this but they also have to dot the i's they have to cross the t's they have to look officials in the eyes and they have to ask the hard questions. The reality is Iain Lees-Galloway got a briefing he spent precisely eight minutes on it and he signed it and in doing so he made New Zealanders less safe.I say to Chris Hipkins who's barracking over there—who's gone quiet now because he knows actually how shameful the decision is that Iain Lees-Galloway's made. I say to him: you stick up for those civil servants who provided advice. Don't you let Jacinda Ardern or Iain Lees-Galloway throw the civil servants under the bus for an incompetent naive decision from Iain Lees-Galloway.On this side of the House we're ready to govern. We're experienced we know what we're doing and unlike that side of the House who's laughing while a drug-dealing gangster is out on the streets we'll keep New Zealanders safe."