King Annette: General DebateText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeKing Annette: General Debate[Sitting date: 16 April 2014. Volume:698;Page:17334. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]Hon ANNETTE KING (Labour—Rongotai): I have to say that the last speaker who has just resumed his seat Scott Simpson is a very nice bloke—but was that not the speech he gave to this House just 3 weeks ago? It was almost identical—talking about theKōpū Bridge etc. etc. He needs to get some new speech notes.It is time. The time has come; in fact it is overdue. Judith Collins has to go. She must stand down as a Minister. She is an embarrassment to the National Party. She is a blot on Cabinet collective responsibility she is an insult to this Parliament and she haslost her way in an overdose of self-importance blatherskite and bravado. I think she needs some time out—some time out for detoxifying her considerable self-confidence and ego.I have sat opposite Judith Collins for week after week as she has been grilled on her behaviour as a Minister. She has blustered. She has thrown out insults. She tried contrition—very very briefly. She made false accusations against other members of this House. She has flouted requests from the Speaker to answer questions. She has laughed hysterically at times. She has bullied and finally she has stomped out of the Chamber and scampered down the back alleys and back corridors—anything to avoid the media.As the weeks have gone by the political noose has been tightening round her neck. As her answers have become more obtuse and more evasive her colleagues’ behaviour has changed. They have gone from the usual laughing and clapping like well-trained circus seals to now having their heads down busily reading whatever is in front of them—Woman’s Day or whatever is of importance to them. They talk to each other—anything but look at her. They duck behind the bench if they can—if they are fit enough to do it—and all the while they are not wanting to look at Judith Collins. She has been left with the departing Minister of Health as her only cheerleader. Even he has gone from looking adoringly at her as he does every day to now staring straight ahead.She is just not believable. In an attempt to divert attention from her highly inappropriate behaviour as a Minister she has tried to turn it into a personal attack on her and her family and her friends. Therein lies the problem. She is incapable of separating her role as a Minister from her personal life. Because of her self-belief that she can do whatever she likes as long as it is in the name of private and personal she has now made the Prime Minister—the Government’s greatest treasure—look like a weakling. He likes to be seen as a reasonable and nice bloke but now he looks indecisive he looks inconsistent and he looks like he is not in control. He is too scared to act—too scared to act. If he does not act now and remove her from office then he deserves to be labelled “nice but weak”.Perhaps there is something much deeper here that we do not know about. What is it that she has over the Prime Minister? What is it that makes him hold back from giving her the same marching orders that he gave to Pansy Wong and Richard Worth? Did he actually approve of her activities? Did he approve of those activities in return for some big cheques from Oravida? It seems that perhaps that is the case because the Prime Minister appears to have got his private life and public life mixed up as well. He plays golf with big business for dollars—not for charity as he said but for the National Party. He has cheques for endorsements and photographs for the National Party. It appears to me that the Prime Minister has lost his moral compass. His moral compass has gone because he cannot see that what the Minister of Justice is doing is wrong. He cannot see it and he needs to get his moral compass back or he will be seen as a weak leader and only a nice bloke.