Peters Winston: Adjournment — Sittings of the HouseText is incorporated into the Bound VolumePeters Winston: Adjournment — Sittings of the House[Sitting date: 09 December 2015. Volume:710;Page:8721. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS (Leader—NZ First): Before passing on our season’s greetings we should say that this has been a most momentous year for the Government and it should be given credit. But on examination of the lists of success stories we ran into a roadblock: “ponytail-gate”; the nail failed twice; the surplus after 7 years’ creative accounting and back to deficit the next quarter; the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement sold the public a lemon and not much about trade; the Iroquois sold to the Yanks and not our own people; the flag with all the levitation of a lead balloon; the housing bubble in Auckland—but only consents no new houses of course; the Nick Smith public relations tour which ran into a deed of ownership that was not the Government’s in the first place; Skycity outsmarting the PM—another shonky deal; Mr Key wearing various hats sometimes when he puts the cat out; and Phillip John Smith taking a holiday in Brazil.Then you have got the Malaysian diplomat but no apology; detainees on Christmas Island being sold out because the PM wants to be an Aussie PM groupie; the Prime Minister telling everybody what he does in the shower; the Serco fight clubs; the “Crusher” Collins comeback—after Oravida that is unbelievable; the biosecurity cutbacks and then the levies on all travellers to try to make up for the cut; logs and milk two products in a declining market; the worm farms’ health and safety risks; Silver Fern Farms’ corrupt deal; the Saudi farm corrupt bribe; the capping of the SuperGold card travel programme; the Solid Energy collapse—it used to be a State-owned enterprise star; and then the so-called $25 increase in benefits while it took the axe to welfare and all the other budgets as well. Then of course you have Redcliffs School where you ignored the parents in Christchurch.But the real thing is that the Government hit its big star performance in Northland in March with a team of strategists ministerial cars spin doctors Crosby/Textor Cabinet Ministers and the Prime Minister going there three or four times. He is on every hoarding 500 of them and then there is the master planner-strategist “Mr Fix-It” Steven Joyce. That poor candidate up there Mark Osborne did not have a hope in Hades. Do you remember that the Government said we had a dog’s chance? Well up went Mr Joyce. He gave it his best shot and the Government came up way short. You see what happened up there was the people up north had been lacking an MP standing up for them for years and they decided to get one.Hon Member: And they are still lacking one.Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS: Oh yes really? Well why do you not front up? I saw that member up at the show in Waimate North and no one knew who he was. He had a badge on and no one was shaking his hand. I felt so sorry—I really did.I just want to say this: on the international stage Tim Groser has been an embarrassment. He has been an embarrassment. It is clear from informed sources that he gets his information from watching the weather girls on TV on the 6 o’clock news every night. The Prime Minister has found it very hard going. You see Prime Minister you cannot run a country through photos on Facebook. Drinking beer out of a bottle does not make you a Kiwi bloke. Haunting the All Blacks in the changing room is an embarrassment to them as well—especially if you do not know one end of the paddock from the other; especially if you have never played the game of rugby.Hon Gerry Brownlee: He has.Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS: No tournament whatsoever and Gerry has never played rugby either.Hon Member: Of course he has.Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS: No. You ask “Jimbo” who can play rugby around here. “Jimbo” can and we can but the National Party cannot—very short on talent.Here are the Prime Minister’s many hats: National Party leader All Black baggage handler international freedom fighter golf cart caddy for the United States President—the list is endless. Prime Minister our relationship with the United States is not going to be enhanced by you giving President Obama the No. 5 iron.Hon Member: Or a three-way handshake.Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS: Or a putter or a three-way handshake when there are only two of you there.The Prime Minister had the audacity to tell the Labour Party to get some guts and courage over Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. Look—political leadership is about policies. It is not about sabre-rattling especially when you are thousands of miles away from the danger. While our troops are overseas in situations of danger under a flag why sell that flag down the drain? It is inappropriate it is insulting and the reception being given to this arrogant rebranding exercise is that it is all over Rover. Stop wasting any more millions. Quit while you are behind because the turnout is so low despite all the millions of dollars the Government has put into it and if he goes on it will show that he is all about personal arrogance and self-interest.You see it has been—what did the Queen call it—an annus horribilis for the blue brigade. Whilst I am at it—[Bell rung]—1 minute to go? Well I cannot leave this out. If you are taken to the Queen’s private residence and you take a photograph you do not put it on Facebook. You see what that tells me is that there is no class and you can have all the money in the world but you cannot get class. That is tragic—tragic. The Government will go on next year trying to repopulate the country in a binge of consumerism but the die is cast. In contrast New Zealand First finishes in the best shape we have ever been in—make no bones about it. We have got offices in Invercargill and all the way now to Kaitāia Dargaville Kerikeri—oh yes we are coming on strong steaming really fast now—Whangarei Warkworth and Nelson. [Interruption] Look the answer is Gerry: your time is up. Your time is up.The last thing Mr Speaker before I wish you generally a very happy Christmas—I really think you deserve one actually—and all the parliamentary staff is that believe me if you look at the last six elections and the polls on election day compared with the period before those elections then you are looking at the top of an iceberg. Help is on its way. New Zealand First is going to be back real strong in 2016 ready for an election whenever they fly the white flag.