Tabuteau FletcherFLETCHER TABUTEAU (NZ First): After today's question time you have to ask the question: what on earth is the plan? The Government has got no idea what it is talking about now. Where is the Government taking us? The people of New Zealand are now asking that question. That party and those Ministers have got no idea. They sit there and they shrug. They shrug and they say: Thank goodness for tourism." They shrug and they say: "Oh the New Zealand dollar's killing export industry." They shrug as day by day and week by week New Zealand exports are falling in real terms. That is what this National Government is doing with its so-called plan. Banks owned by overseas companies reap billions of dollars every year. National shrugs as those billions of dollars flow offshore. The Government members speak about the importance of the regions. They love the regions right now. It is just unbelievable how the regions have suddenly come into their collective conscience. The spin machine works in overdrive telling Kiwis how wonderful life is and how happy they should be living under the leadership of this Atlas of a man the Prime Minister. It is just wonderful they tell us. But what they cannot deny is that now and for the past several years the magnitude of the problem has been building such that National's wonderful spin-machine cannot hide the magnitude of the problem. The people are beginning to see it for themselves right now. I take Westpac as an example taking my lead from the deputy leader of New Zealand First today. For 27 years it has been the banker for the Government of New Zealand profiting tremendously for all that time—I think a $445 million half-yearly profit as at 31 March this year. Nearly half a billion dollars in half a year and that money is going offshore. But what does Westpac do? There are 72 jobs being cut in the provinces as it closes its doors. Why? It is not making enough money apparently. Its contract with this Government—the contract with the people of New Zealand—does not seem to be enough of a reason to provide core services to the people who so desperately need them especially our seniors who have been speaking out against this move of Westpac's at the moment. What does this Government do? It sits there and it shrugs. The Prime Minister's determined and considered effort to stifle the Kiwi wage packet is working. But actually what big businesses—multinationals from around the world—are telling him is that they are still not making enough profit and they could still cut more off the cost of operations and their margins could be bigger. So what do Messrs Joyce English and Key do? Unfettered and rampant record numbers of unskilled migrants are coming into the country coming into Auckland in particular creating a housing crisis ensuring that working families cannot afford a home to live in and ensuring—and here is the kicker—that wages in New Zealand remain stagnant. And stagnant they are. There can be no debate about that. I put it to the Government that they will start to decline in real terms. In fact my commendations to the Minister who spoke before me Hekia Parata. She seemed to be the only one who has a plan. If you are a private corporate looking to cream a profit off Kiwi kids' education in New Zealand then Hekia Parata is the Minister with a plan. Ignore the fact that internet and online learning has been a part of the New Zealand curriculum—an integral and important part—for decades; she has got the plan. It is just wonderful—just ignore reality. I want to conclude by saying that where once you could forgive a percentage of the New Zealand public looking at the Prime Minister and considering him a titan an Atlas of business whose shrug would change this country for the better now we see a man who is only a man who shrugs and has no idea and no clue about what tomorrow will bring. Thank you."