O'Connor GregGREG O'CONNOR (Labour—Ōhāriu): Can I assist those at home and members across the House—in fact everyone here—just to explain with some imagery as to what's going on here. We're all aware of that cartoon where you see a fine day people enjoying themselves and it's a nice place but in the middle of it there's this person wandering around with a cloud over their head with those lightning strikes going down on them. They're getting soaked and everywhere they go there's doom and gloom—it doesn't matter how good it is it's going to be wet cloudy and stormy. That's the imagery I'd like to see because as you sit here as you listen to what's coming from the Opposition benches—I'm sorry Madam Assistant Speaker; not you—that's exactly what it's like. It's a little bit like—[Interruption]ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Poto Williams): Order! [Interruption] Order! [Interruption] Order! Can we just take it down a fraction? Thank you. [Interruption] No no carry on please.GREG O'CONNOR: You weren't telling me off Madam Assistant Speaker? Thank you for that I'm used to being pulled up—ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Poto Williams): No carry on.GREG O'CONNOR: Can I go back to—there's this cloud that comes and sitting here in the House for the last two days three days the gloom—the lights might as well be off. But on this side of the House I know that having chosen to come over here it is glowing.A little bit more seriously—if I can carry on another piece of imagery this is like a great ship a great tanker that has been bearing towards probably the Astrolabe Reef in the last nine years—[Interruption]ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Poto Williams): Order! [Interruption] Order! Can we just have a little order in the House please? There are some reflections that have been thrown about which are not appropriate. Can we just take the tone down—I know it's Thursday afternoon and we're all looking forward to the end of the day but please can we just take it down a bit and remember not to bring me into the debate.GREG O'CONNOR: Thank you Madam Assistant Speaker. So this ship the direction it's been going in—it's been going towards ultimately a rich country full of poor people because that's what neo-liberal politics is. The people on the other side—I know they're good people; they've come here for the right reason. We all come here for the right reason. But it's the belief—a blind belief—that if we continue to actually just move towards the way we're going where all the wealth is concentrated in fewer and fewer hands ultimately we are condemning our children our grandchildren and the generations after us to a particularly unfair world.Ultimately if you're going to take it to its natural extension you go to your Russian and French revolutions—the unfairness that must be fixed. Whereas what you've seen—if I can go back to that imagery with this—is this ship now has straightened up. We've avoided the Astrolabe Reef and now we're actually—because there's been a sea change. What we're actually delivering here and as you go through this Budget it's making sure that that direction we were going to—we were just going to end up with a lot of as I say more and more people who are left out who are alienated from our society. Another piece of imagery: like looking in the restaurant window with their noses up against it—looking but no chance of ever getting. It's a rock star economy—never going to be able to afford a ticket to go to it; never get in there. So it'll be a nice little exclusion. Ultimately it's all of our children and grandchildren who'll suffer that.So what this Budget represents is a change. Actually what it's going to mean is that many more New Zealanders—in fact ultimately all New Zealanders are going to feel part of this country. So you can afford to go to the doctor as a result of this. Your housing is going to be met—it won't be met overnight but it will be met.ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Poto Williams): Order! [Interruption] Order! Sorry could I encourage the member not to use the word you". Perhaps if you would face me and speak to me then the speech will actually be directed to me as opposed to including me in the debate. Please Mr O'Connor carry on.GREG O'CONNOR: Thank you very much for those instructions.But anyway going back to what this Budget does in the very short time left to me I'll just say why I'm so pleased to be here speaking about that is that this whole change that's been now—we're going to end up with the wealth of this country this great country being shared by so many more. It will ensure that we end up—that this will be a moment that people will look back on when that ship was steered away from the Astrolabe Reef—where we actually now end up with a better country that we all and more importantly our grandchildren will get to enjoy. Thank you Madam Assistant Speaker."