Gosche Mark: General Debate 
Gosche Mark: General Debate 
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Hon MARK GOSCHE (Labour—Maungakiekie) 
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 I quote a sentence from the Leader of the Opposition’s speech which I think he gave to the Local Government conference: “In my experience good leadership allows others to flourish; it inspires challenges and encourages.” Unfortunately there is a typo. A comma has been put in that should not have been put in. It should have just read: “It inspires others to flourish. It inspires challenges.” We are seeing them today. We have just seen one challenger sit down and the other one next to him will be up next. They are all auditioning because Dr Brash has taken the advice. He could not lead so he left. He left it to Bill he left it to John Key and he left it to Gerry and that is what others would expect. 
But talking about 90th birthdays I am not an ungrateful person. I am very grateful to the National Party that they leave their leader in place; a leader like Dr Brash is the biggest birthday present the Labour Party could ever have on its 90th birthday. He has figures that I suppose John Key—sitting at 7 percent at the moment—would aspire to. John Key would like to be up there with Don on 13 and 14 percent because that is where the Leader of the Opposition is. 
It is no wonder when one looks at the cynicism and listens to Bill English over there—suddenly the man of moral rectitude—they are like that over on that side of the House. They are so pure. It is just unbelievable that we are so lucky in this House to have people over there with no faults—not one of them. Bill English used Murray McCully as an example of wonderful behaviour. I can remember that. Was it tourism boards? Who else did he pay off? He is held up by the National Party as a man of moral rectitude. 
Well it fits with this National Party that says it is going to make National cool. I picked a page from their proposals and I see a couple of bands. We are very familiar with the National Party’s fondness for hip hop. We used to hear it coming from their side of the House regularly. So they have the Dawn Raid hoodies here all fitted out so Don can do a bit of break-dancing with Bill John and Gerry so that they can make National cool. Yeah right! [ 
Interruption 
] I am sure Maurice Williamson can be cool without a Dawn Raid hoodie. He is one of the few that actually understands a little about real people in New Zealand. That is why the National Party put him in the wilderness for so long. 
But what about this for Bill English to look at: the proposal to mix Young Nats with charity. They have this political strategy for them to get out there and collect for charity and have a Young Nat badge on while they are doing it. That is what this is all about. So let us have Bill English’s lecture on morality when we look at that one. Is Dr the Hon Lockwood Smith who railed so passionately about all these things getting out there to do that as well with all his colleagues in the Young Nats? Does Dr Lockwood Smith support that sort of cynical politics? Yes he does. Of course he does. 
The women of the National Party must have thrown up when they saw this proposal at the Auckland regional conference. They know how dumped on they are in that party but the party wants them to go on the cover of the  
New Zealand Woman’s Weekly 
. That is about as good as it gets in the National Party. Yes let us plaster Judith Collins over the cover of the  
New Zealand Woman’s Weekly 
. That edition would sell well would it not? Women would be lining up for it. But that is the cynicism of the National Party. It will sell out female MPs and make them go on the cover of the  
New Zealand Woman’s Weekly 
; that is about as much as they think women MPs are worth on that side of the House. 
So getting a moral lecture from any member on that side of the House is just bizarre. Look at their strategy. Don out there break-dancing in Dawn Raid hoodies. Yeah right! Judith Collins gracing the front cover of the  
New Zealand Woman’s Weekly 
 as if she is some warm cuddly individual that ordinary New Zealand women would want to aspire to. Yeah right! Will we have another passionate speech from that side of the House about their level of cynical politics? No they will disown this. They will say they sacked the person responsible and got rid of him. It is like the one who told them to walk the plank. He was there a month before Don Brash even went and walked the plank.