Bishop ChrisCHRIS BISHOP (National—Hutt South): Thanks very much to the fluoride front runner" Duncan Webb over the other side for those interesting remarks. There are a few things that characterise this Government. Number one is backflips. It is galling to hear members of the Government stand up and laud the Trans-Pacific Partnership deal. I'm a relatively new member in the House but I have been around long enough to remember Labour members opposite and New Zealand First members opposite marching outside electorate offices marching down Queen Street and standing next to Jane Kelsey and saying that this was the worst trade deal in New Zealand history that it compromised our sovereignty that it destroyed Pharmac that it didn't allow New Zealand to regulate in the public interest that Jane Kelsey's analysis should be listened to and that we must reject the Trans-Pacific Partnership deal. And then a few months later what happens? Twenty-two changes out of a 5000 word document and all of a sudden it's the greatest thing since sliced bread. All of a sudden we hear David Parker standing up in Parliament saying that it's a progressive deal that it makes good market access gains for New Zealand for our avocado industry and for beef. And he's right; he is exactly right. It just would be nice to have some consistency.He paid tribute to Ministers and to our trade negotiators and I want to echo what he said. I do want to pay tribute to Todd McClay and Tim Groser who spent so many years negotiating this very complex deal. I want Labour members to be consistent and endorse what Jane Kelsey says now because do you know what Jane Kelsey says now? Jane Kelsey says that fundamentally this is exactly the same deal. You can add the words "comprehensive" and "progressive" in front of it all you like. This deal is pretty much exactly the same deal as was negotiated by the National Government and they should endorse it.Hon Andrew Little: Another backflip.CHRIS BISHOP: So that's number one on the backflips front. Then we hear Pike River and we hear the Minister of Justice talking over there. Well I remember during the election campaign and before the deeply obnoxious politicisation of this issue and I hear members opposite saying "We're going to go in." In fact Winston Peters offered to be the first down the tube—first into the drift. "I'm going to go in." Now what do we find? Now we find that actually they received exactly the same advice in Government as National did which is that it's an extremely dangerous toxic working environment and the new position is "Oh we'll only go in if it's safe."—we'll only go in if it's safe. Well that is the position of the National Party. We all want to go in there but we can go in only if it's a safe environment. So the Labour Party is now endorsing exactly the position the National Government had.Then we hear all the claims around open Government. Clare Curran and the Ministers opposite say this will be the most open and transparent Government in New Zealand history. That is a very bold claim. I just want to repeat that: the most open and transparent Government in New Zealand history. Well that lasted probably I don't know 45 seconds before the questions for written answer started to not be answered before they refused to release information about people they were meeting with and before the Official Information Act denials started. This is not the most transparent Government in New Zealand history and if they start as they mean to go on it will only get worse.The second thing that characterises this Government is incompetence—absolute incompetence. You've seen this every day in question time. You see it with Kelvin Davis standing up and Grant Robertson whispering the answers to him. It's just embarrassing for the deputy leader of the Labour Party. You see it with Willie Jackson the Minister of Employment who doesn't know how many jobs we created in the New Zealand economy in the last year doesn't know the unemployment rate and doesn't know how he's going to decrease youth unemployment. You see it with the verbal diarrhoea from Willie Jackson in response to Paul Goldsmith every single question time. The third thing that characterises this shambolic Government—and this is the most important—is lofty ambition and rhetoric that is actually matched with regressive policy that punishes the people Labour claims to stand for and nowhere is this more evident than around charter schools. They are furious about charter schools. One thousand kids failing in the traditional system most of them who have gone outside the traditional mainstream system—actually gone to schools set up by Labour members set up by Peeni Henare and Willie Jackson and Kelvin Davis—who are now largely succeeding outside the mainstream system and nothing angers them more. Isn't it weird? There are 1000 kids at Vanguard Military School and at South Auckland Middle School kids that Labour claims to care for kids that have failed in the mainstream system. Isn't it weird that 1000 kids—Hon Andrew Little: You don't believe in them. You never did.CHRIS BISHOP: —1000 kids most of whom are now succeeding—SPEAKER: Order! The member will resume his seat. I just want to ask my learned colleague to stop bringing me into the debate.CHRIS BISHOP: There are 1000 kids in schools that are challenging the soft bigotry of low expectations and the Labour Party wants to shut them down for no other reason than ideology. I find it disgraceful. I find it disgraceful."