Swain Paul: General Debate 
Swain Paul: General Debate 
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Hon PAUL SWAIN (Labour—Rimutaka) 
: 
 You know it is one thing to make a cheesy DVD; it is entirely another thing to pinch someone’s intellectual property. That actually sounds like a Coldplay song: “It is one thing to make a cheesy DVD quite another to pinch someone’s IP.” You see there is a little rhyme at the end. 
I will talk just briefly about the cheesy DVD. I had a look at it on YouTube and I tell members that I lasted about 2 or 3 minutes. It was kind of shallow and insincere which is what we would have expected but it was also cringingly bad. It was humorous. It was cringingly bad and humorous. We have not seen a pre-Christmas release as humorous since Paul Holmes’ CD. Do members remember his CD? What was it called? 
Hon David Parker 
: “Snoopy’s Christmas”. 
Hon PAUL SWAIN 
: It was called “Snoopy’s Christmas”. Paul Holmes put out a CD on which he tried to sing songs he hoped people would play at Christmas time. The problem is that it was the kind of present that people bought for someone who had everything but who had an enormously good sense of humour. We just knew there were people at Christmas time gathered around their stereos listening to that CD and having a good old laugh over a bottle of wine. That is the kind of thing that was going to happen to this DVD until National had to pull it because the party had pinched the intellectual property. 
The first point that members need to know is that the offending song was “Clocks” which is from an album by Coldplay called  
A Rush of Blood to the Head 
. Is that not appropriate that the National Party copied a song from a CD with that title? But I say to members that I have the titles of more Coldplay songs here. You see the National Party and John Key could have used a whole pile of songs from Coldplay. Here are some of them. From the  
Parachutes 
 album which was released in July 2000 there is “Don’t Panic”—the first song on that album. Here is another one: “Spies”. That is the song for when they want to know who pinched all the emails. There were spies. The next song is called “Yellow”. That song is appropriate because National members say one thing before the election and do something completely different afterwards. 
Another song on this album is called “Trouble”. But members should listen to the title of this one. There is a song—I think it is the second to last song on the album  
Parachutes 
—called “We Never Change”. National could have used that song. Of course National members are the hollow men—they never change. They want to convince us that they have changed but deep down they really have not. The last song on the album is “Everything’s Not Lost”. They could have used that song as well after the gaffes they have made. 
The album  
A Rush of Blood to the Head 
 which has the “Clocks” song on it was released in August 2002. I like Coldplay; they are fantastic group. But here is one song National members could have used for the Exclusive Brethren: “God Put a Smile Upon Your Face”. That is a song they could have had playing in the background with the Exclusive Brethren handing out its little leaflets. 
Here is another Coldplay album: it is called  
X & Y 
 and was released in June 2005. The first song on that album is called “Square One” as in going back to square one after someone has made a few botch-ups and tried to get out of a few curly things. Here is the second song: “What If”. What if we had some National Party policy? That would be good would it not? What if we had some National Party policy? The next song is called “White Shadows”. I think that kind of summarises the Orewa speech—the kind of speech in which someone does not want to say something but instead gives out coded messages. 
Here is the next one: “Fix You”—as National will do to the workers of this country if it ever get back in to Government. If it ever gets back in the Employment Contracts Act will be back in. Here is another song: “Twisted Logic”. That is a great song National could have used. The sub-theme of that song could have been Iraq. Do members remember? National would have sent troops then it would not have sent troops then it would have sent troops. That song is one that National could have used. 
What about climate change? There is the twisted logic of National’s climate change policy. It was all a big hoax do members remember? Then Mr Key said he had always been a believer in it. That was twisted logic. 
Here is another song for the Exclusive Brethren—this is a little beauty—“‘Til Kingdom Come”. National could have used any of those songs on the DVD not just “Clocks”.