Henare Tau: General DebateText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeHenare Tau: General Debate[Sitting date: 06 November 2013. Volume:694;Page:14413. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]Hon TAU HENARE (National): I first want to pay my respects and condolences to Lotu-Iiga Lotuatamaiti Sam Lotu-Iiga’s father who passed away suddenly this week and also to Peter Fatialofa the former captain of Manu Samoa. They were two sons of Samoa so my condolences go to both families.Twenty years ago today—it sounds like a song—on 6 November 1993 I entered this House. Today is the 20th anniversary of that. I want to thank first of all the Rt Hon Winston Peters of New Zealand First for giving me my shot at politics. And no it was not my second party: it was my first.I have been in for 6 years I was out for 6 years and I have been in for 8 years. I know it sounds like a lag and I know it sounds like a prison sentence—a prison term—but in 20 years I have seen them come and I have seen them go. I have seen changes and I have seen things that stay the same. There has been one constant in all of those 20 years: Labour has no idea. It never did have an idea and it never will have an idea. Just imagine if it ever got the reins of power to drive the ship. If it was a captain of a ship it would spend like a drunken sailor.But that is not all. See there is nothing wrong with spending like a drunken sailor if it is your own money. But the fact of the matter remains that when you spend like a drunken sailor and it is not your money it is the taxpayers’ money and then there is something seriously wrong. It was pork barrel politics then and it is pork barrel politics now.Before he went away Mr Twyford got up in this House and he said: “In the great words of Lyndon Baines Johnson”—I could not believe my luck. There was the biggest racist bigot from Texas that the United States has ever known. In fact what he did wasto send the world into the Viet Nam War and this from Phil Twyford the member of Parliament in my own area. I am shocked and I am horrified. The message to children out there is when you go home tonight read about who Lyndon Baines Johnson really was. He was the one who sent people to the Viet Nam War. He was the one who—oh so this is the great Lyndon Baines Johnson. Therein lies the answer to the question. Can these guys deliver? Can these guys run the ship? Absolutely not. And you know why? Do you know why? Because they rely on old outdated models like Lyndon Baines Johnson for their thinking. That is where the thinking of Mr Twyford comes from.Look I do not know. Let us take Skycity. Labour railed against the Skycity deal but on the other hand took tickets from Skycity to go to the rugby. Let us take a look at the man ban. It does not know whether it is Arthur or Martha. For goodness’ sake! Labour wants it both ways—50c here and 50c there. Do you know why? Because it does not have an idea. It never had an idea. In fact what it is doing is apologising for stuff it did 20-odd years ago. But really—Dr Cam Calder: They want to do it again.Hon TAU HENARE: Labour wants to do it again. So what it is going to do is have KiwiAssure. It will get this thing up and running and then what is the bet that it will sell it? For goodness’ sake! For goodness’ sake. We have been there we have done that we have bought the T-shirt and we ain’t voting Labour again.