King Annette: General DebateText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeKing Annette: General Debate[Sitting date: 26 November 2014. Volume:702;Page:849. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]Hon ANNETTE KING (Deputy Leader—Labour):I have to say that I was very very disappointed in Steven Joyce’s speech today because he seems to have had a big dose of amnesia. He seems to have forgotten that it was he who brought in Jason Ede—“Mr Black Ops”—into the Beehive one of his ex - radio station workers; that it was Jason Ede who worked with Mr Joyce for the election campaigns of 2011 and 2014; and that it was Mr Joyce who made Jason Ede disappear when things got very nasty indeed. Mr Joyce has kept his head down until today but I think today he made a terrible terrible mistake. I would also say that I have to tell Paula Bennett who has gone from “Ms Fake Fur” to “Ms Dior” while her former constituents have gone to the camping ground that her contribution today was pathetic.You see there is something quite rotten in the State of “Planet Key”. You know it has been brewing and festering away there for the past 6 to 8 years and now the rot has been exposed for everybody to see even those who wear Key-coloured spectacles. You see this rot has permeated its way down from the ninth floor of the Beehive to infect all those who have been caught up in the sludge and sleaze campaign operated out of the Prime Minister’s own office. We have seen neutral public service advice become political cover-ups. That is what we have seen. In the last 2 weeks we have seen what used to be given as political advice—neutral political advice—being used as political cover-ups in this country.Although the Prime Minister and his “black ops” rubbish Nicky Hager and his book on dirty politics what the Prime Minister cannot hide from and what he cannot bluster his way out of is the report from the office of the Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security—a report that shows that dirty politics by the National Party was and is condoned by the man who is the Prime Minister of New Zealand. Not just dirty politics but grubby filthy unprecedented politics and all aimed at undermining political opponents and holding on to political power at any cost.If you were in the United States it would be called moral turpitude. That is what it would be called. It would be conduct that is considered contrary to community standards of justice honesty or good morals—acts of vileness and baseness. I believe it is contrary to honesty and community standards of justice and good morals to employ people paid by the taxpayer to dig up dirt and to pass their filth on to others to disseminate and to undermine your political opponents. That is exactly what happened with Jason Ede two doors down from the Prime Minister’s office.When you read that report this is what shocked me the most. This is what the inspector-general said: “Jason Ede had destroyed information to avoid any public record.” Does it not shock the people of this House that someone working in the Prime Minister’s office destroyed information that should have gone to an inquiry in order to avoid any public record to misuse and abuse the Official Information Act to smear and blame others to use malicious fabrications to make political points?But on the radio this morning the Prime Minister said that he approved of the practices and processes run out of his office by people who were just two doors down. That is morally bankrupt—morally bankrupt—to know that such behaviour was taking place two doors down and doing nothing about it saying: “There’s nothing to see here. You can’t blame me.” and then to denigrate a report by saying that it is contestable. There is nothing contestable in that report. What is true about it is that the Prime Minister allowed one of his own staff members to work in a way that is despicable and not seen in New Zealand before.