Mark Ron; Borrows ChesterRON MARK (Deputy Leader—NZ First): Well it is astonishing sitting here listening to these two old parties arguing. And I have got to say one thing we all know—nanna told me a long time ago—is that leopards do not change their spots do they?After our leader the Rt Hon Winston Peters had done his magnificent tour of provisional New Zealand actually visiting all the places that that member Barbara Kuriger just talked about—and my questions to that member are (1) do you know where those places actually are and (2) can you pronounce them? But our leader has been there and the picture being painted is quite different to that which National is deluding itself over.What we found absolutely astonishing was that when Winston Peters came back from the provincial tour suddenly National and Labour rediscovered the provinces and put their hands up and said: Me too. We too are concerned about the provinces." But a day is a long time in politics we say and a week is an eternity. And 1 week later with a change in Labour leadership suddenly we are back to reality: it is a myopic focus relentlessly positive on Auckland—Auckland Auckland Auckland Auckland. It has not been missed out there in provincial New Zealand can I tell the National Party. Now National Party they are hearing you guys say "Auckland Auckland Auckland Auckland." all the time and they are saying: "Nothing's changed."While we sit here and listen to the old hat parties Pepsi and Coke arguing over Auckland's woes on its roads provincial New Zealand is saying: "How come funding assistance for rural roads has been cut? How come we're staring down the barrel of a one-road network plan from NZTA that's going to carve up provincial New Zealand and cause some tarseal roads to go back to gravel? How come we've got no funding assistance for the tens of thousands of one-way bridges throughout provincial New Zealand? And by the way you still haven't built the 10 in Northland—how come?".Do not bleat on about "Auckland Auckland Auckland" to us in the Wairarapa when the gorge is still closed and there is not one digger on site. Do not whine to us in your silly little squabble with Labour—a silly squabble over rail fast rail light rail and roading problems—when provincial New Zealand is dying not for its own lack of work ethic not because it is not on the game not because it does not have the best farmers in the world but because it does not have infrastructure support from this Government. This Government is now in a bidding war with Labour over Auckland Auckland Auckland. Well out in provincial New Zealand there is a message coming. There is a train coming. It is going to follow that bus that went right around the country. On that train is going to be New Zealand First and it is going to come in with a mandate and an endorsement from provincial New Zealand that will tell the National Government that clearly it is over—over.Do not talk to us about Labour's water plan. We know it is a load of rubbish. We know that Labour has forgotten the poor. We know that Labour does not understand the impact on poor families the working poor and how it is going to hit them in the supermarkets. We know that. We had the discussions with Federated Farmers; we know what food production prices will do. We know all that. But National do not sit there gloating. We are not interested in your silly little speeches. Tell us what you did behind the scenes with the deal with the Waikato authority over fifty-fifty allocation with Māori and royalties to Māori. Who is going to be paying that?Do not talk to us about these things and do not talk to us about the impact on farmers when you are signing off and endorsing the Horizons Regional Council's One Plan. The One Plan—in that document it says that farm profitability will drop by 40 percent.Rt Hon Winston Peters: How much?RON MARK: Farm profitability will be cut by the Horizons Regional Council under this Government—by this Government allowing it to go through—by 40 percent or in a best case 20 to 25 percent. That is going to see farmers walking off their land. That is going to see farmers being told by Horizons: "You can no longer farm dairy—sell your cows." Those farmers will probably try to sell their farms to Jacinda Ardern or the front bench of the Labour Party which now wants to put them out of business as well.But you are both the same National and Labour. There is no difference. This lot purports to represent the poor but it is just going to hand the poor a grocery bill that they have never ever thought of or dreamt of. And over on that side of the House the National Government is going to preside over the death of farming in the Horizons region. We are tired of Pepsi and Coke. It is time for a change.Mr DEPUTY SPEAKER: It is—your time is up."