Seymour DavidDAVID SEYMOUR (Leader—ACT): Thank you Mr Speaker. I was reflecting on the question of: what is the job of a politician; what is the job of a Government? I'd put it to you that it is to confront the challenges of today so that the people of New Zealand can have a better tomorrow. It was interesting to listen to Simon Bridges the National Party leader tell the House that the Labour Party and their associates are so devoid of ideas that they've had to steal his ideas in place of their own. I know how Simon Bridges feels because if you look at the legacy of the Key-English Government what are those improvements to New Zealand that have created a legacy that are now under threat which the National Party declares itself ready to defend? Well one of them is the 90-day trial: the idea that a person who is young who has few skills who employers aren't willing to take a chance on can get into the job market and start growing for themselves the skills they require to have a prosperous life.Another idea was three strikes: the idea that the worst offenders those who are violent and sexual offenders who show that they cannot in any way be rehabilitated and who do it not once not twice but three times should go away for the maximum possible sentence—the simple idea that we put the worst offenders away the longest so that New Zealanders can be safe in their homes and in the street.Another idea that the National Party is determined to defend in the legacy of the Key-English Government is charter schools: the simple idea that there are people in every community who have kids who are disengaged from State education who have ideas about how to set up schools that will engage them so that those kids can gain skills that turn into qualifications that turn into further education and jobs careers self-esteem and ultimately the ability to feel good about themselves.Three simple ideas and the only three that are a legacy of the Key-English Government that the National Party has committed to fighting for—except maybe some tax cuts that never happened—since going into Opposition. And what do those three policies all have in common? All of them are policies that were advanced in the last Government by ACT. Had there not been an ACT Party in the last coalition Government I'd put it to the House that the Key-English Government would have no legacy to defend at all.But that's enough beating up on them because unfortunately this Government—Phil Twyford's and Jacinda Ardern's Government—are worse. Let me pay a compliment to our new Prime Minister. She's good. Oh God she is good at selling her policy. She is our first truly professional Prime Minister who has worked on herself and her communication and her presentation for at least a decade. The problem that she's got is that the job of a politician is not to be a celebrity and it's not just to sell; it's to actually make people's lives better. And all we're seeing from this Government is poor quality spending. We're seeing for example fees-free tertiary education. Well that's great for the kids who are already going to tertiary institutions because the policy's not going to bring any more in. What about the kids who don't make it at all? They're being denied an opportunity to get a tertiary education already and now they're going to pay taxes for the rest of their lives to subsidise those who do. That's not making people's lives better; that is simple cynical electoral politics.What about the provincial growth fund? The idea that people all over the world and especially in New Zealand have somehow missed investment opportunities in provisional New Zealand that Shane Jones is going to detect—that's not going to make New Zealand a better place with opportunity for all. It's going to waste a huge amount of taxpayers' money and we're going to be all the poorer for it.Our job is to make New Zealanders' lives better with greater opportunity and I'm proud to say that in the last Government the ACT Party was essential to any of that happening. I look forward to ACT coming back in a future Government where we can continue that work where this Government is absolutely failing.