King MattMATT KING (National—Northland): It's a pleasure to speak on this Mugabe-Zimbabwe Bill". It's the political equivalent of the underarm bowl—there is actually a Wikipedia page about that. I hear the Hon Andrew Little talking about him having integrity but he is supporting a bill that is the equivalent of the underarm bowl. Now I want members opposite to look up the words "cognitive dissonance". I'll read it out. It's: "the mental discomfort (psychological stress) experienced by a person who simultaneously holds … contradictory beliefs ideas or values." Now the Hon Andrew Little is the definition of cognitive dissonance.I've had 24 years interviewing and investigating people. I'm a reasonably good reader of body language and I'm watching the Hon Andrew Little sitting at his desk and he's gritting his teeth. He's taking a deep breath. I saw him a few weeks ago in the House look up to the boss—Mr Winston Peters—and I could see that he was thinking to himself "This guy gave me a hospital pass and he's exempt. He's exempt." So he's gritting his teeth he's hunched over he's fighting the good fight and he's taking this underarm bowl bill through the House.Now I want to refer to James Shaw. A while back he talked to us about—CHAIRPERSON (Poto Williams): I apologise to the member. The time has come for me to leave the Chair for the dinner break.Sitting suspended from 6 p.m. to 7.30 p.m.MATT KING: I talked previously before the break about the hospital pass that the Hon Andrew Little got from the Rt Hon Winston Sp—Winston Peters—but I want to talk about—Hon Member: Where have you been?MATT KING: No—only drinking juice in the break. Now the funny thing about this bill is that the leader has got to notify the Parliament that they're going to kick someone out. So in this bill the leader is exempt. So the leader can't be kicked out. You're not going to have a leader that's going to kick himself out. So it's interesting that Winston Peters has exempted himself from this bill.Now we quoted from Rod Donald the very honourable and well-respected former Green MP and we quoted him about the flaws in this bill—the major flaws in this bill. I remember that James Shaw said that we were waving a dead man's hand. He got quite offended. But I think that quoting from Rod using his quotes and the exact words that he used about this sort of bill is actually showing respect to the man. I notice that a lot of the Green MPs or most of the former Green MPs have slammed this bill. I believe that if this was a true blind ballot this bill wouldn't get past the first hurdle because it's a shameful piece of legislation devoid of integrity devoid of valid reasoning devoid of support.In the Northland by-election in 2015 when the Rt Hon Winston Peters got elected that changed the representational proportions. It changed everything around. In the German situation they would lose a list seat. Hon Member: Make your own points.MATT KING: Their own laws—yeah they're MMP. They would lose a seat. So the first opportunity and he's going against what he did in 2015. Thankfully I won in 2017.Now it's against the democratic will of the people. It's opposed by every submitter every constitutional expert—every constitutional expert. So the Hon Andrew Little is arguing against every constitutional expert. That's that cognitive dissonance because I know that he knows that it's wrong as do all the academic scholars even the Clerk of the House and all the former Green MPs. So truth be known the only one that really honestly supports this bill is the Rt Hon Winston Peters and we know why he's supporting it.Hon Scott Simpson: Darroch supports it.MATT KING: Darroch Ball might be supporting it as well. I guess what concerns me—oh the clock's not on. I can speak indefinitely. [Interruption] I'm going I'm going. OK. I've got all night—I've got all night. [Interruption] OK. It's a power grab. This is a power grab.I want to talk about some of those New Zealand First MPs over there because I've got to know them and some of them—some of them—are actually really nice people. I want to talk about one of them: Mark Patterson. Now Mark Patterson—he's a true-blue bloke. The reason why I say that is he used to be a Nat. For 15 years he was a branch chair in the deep Clutha-Southland area. He's hard-core blue.Hon Scott Simpson: He's a waka jumper.MATT KING: Yeah. He didn't make the cut with us. So now he's New Zealand First's MP. If I were him—[Time expired]"