Bishop ChrisCHRIS BISHOP (National): Thank you very much Mr Speaker. Six years ago the country voted and they voted for change. National was thrown out of office and Jacinda Ardern ascended to the prime ministership and there was hope and change on the way according to Prime Minister Ardern. Labour came to Government promising to fix the housing crisis promising to build light rail in Auckland by 2021 and they promised economic transformation.After six years let's look at Labour's record. What have we got? Well the housing crisis that Labour promised to fix has got worse. Rents are up $175 a week since 2017. The social housing wait-list has quintupled and there are now 25000 families in severe and urgent need of housing. In the last six years the Government has spent $1.4 billion on emergency housing motels. Front page of The Dominion Post this morning: some motels charging $450 per night for homeless people to live in. One hundred thousand KiwiBuild homes were promised; after six years 1800 KiwiBuild homes have been built—1.8 percent of the promised 100000.Jacinda Ardern and Phil Twyford and poor old Michael Wood stood in Mount Roskill and said We're going to build light rail by 2021." Six years later Simeon Brown's kids have built more sections of light rail than the Labour Government have. We're still waiting for the business cases we're still waiting for the final sign-off. And economic transformation that's what Grant Robertson used to talk about. What a joke. Well I'll tell you what we have had economic transformation—in the wrong direction. Inflation is treble what it should be. Inflation is 6 percent—we're in a cost of living crisis that shows no signs of abating. Debt has massively increased. Government spending has increased by 80 percent. And my simple question for you Mr Speaker and indeed for the country is: is the country 80 percent better off for an 80 percent increase in spending? And New Zealanders waiting in emergency departments for longer and longer overnight do not think that the health system is 80 percent better. The parents of kids at school who can't read and write do not think the education system is 80 percent better.So this is a failed Government and ultimately in 36 days' or so time New Zealanders will get to hold that Government to account. A Government that promised a lot—promised transformation promised transport projects promised to fix the housing crisis—and has delivered very little.So where has Labour got to? What have they got? Because they're going into an election campaign knowing that they have no track record to defend nothing to campaign on. They've got two strategies. The first is to adopt National Party policy and pretend it was theirs all along. So on the roading front National's campaigning on new roads of national significance and six years after cancelling all of National's projects Labour now expects the public to believe that they've had a road to Damascus conversion and they're all in favour of roads. So suddenly roads that we were building in 2017 Labour's said they're going to build like Cambridge to Piarere the further extension of the Auckland Northern Motorway and a whole series of other things.We're expected to believe that Labour is now in favour of a second harbour crossing because Chris Hipkins and David Parker plucked out of nowhere the emerging preferred option out of the business case process and stood next to Auckland Harbour and said "We're going to build it." On law and order we've had a series of made-up cooked-up announcements in order to pretend that the Labour Party care about law and order and now this week we hear fiscal reprioritisation is the order of the day. After an 80 percent increase in Government spending Grant Robertson has decided that it's time to be Scrooge McDuck in time to save some money. It's just not credible.And then the second strategy is just to make stuff up about the National Party. Labour Party MPs opposite and some of their candidates are just going around literally making things up about National Party policy on their social media. It is desperate it is disgraceful and it is disreputable. They've got nothing. They have no track record they have no vision and no plans for the future. All they've got is confected culture wars confected outrage and endless negativity and ultimately that is why they will be thrown out of office on 14 October."