Bennett DavidHon DAVID BENNETT (National—Hamilton East): Mr Assistant Speaker thank you and congratulations on your new role in this House. We trust you implicitly and thank you for your gesture in letting us know what was said in the last speech. So thank you very much.This country has embarked on a socialist experiment in the last few weeks. It's an experiment that is doomed to failure. It is an experiment that is socialism at its worst and it is in this country for the first time. It's time for the people to stop this socialist experiment. The other side of this House will have an agenda over the next three years where it will want to keep the poor people poor. Those members do not want anybody to get an education so they can lift themselves out of the trap of poverty. That is why they have taken away national standards. They are taking away NCEA. They are keeping people in poverty and that is what socialists always want because socialists want to be in control and they don't want to give anybody any chance to get the best out of their life. That is a socialist agenda that will not succeed.The other thing socialists always want to do is make people dependent on the State. They want to make people dependent on the State for their housing. They want to make people dependent on the State for their jobs. That is what those socialists are doing at this moment. They are creating an attitude and a sense of dependency in this country that will not set New Zealanders free and will not enable them to succeed.The other thing that socialists want to do is to create barriers around our borders.The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Adrian Rurawhe): I'm sorry to interrupt the member. Can I ask members to my right please do not bring the Speaker into your interjections. There is too much of a barrage of interjections coming across the House. Please be mindful of that.Hon DAVID BENNETT: The other thing socialists do is they put up barriers. The socialists over there are going to stop immigration into this country. They are going to stop people coming in that have got aspiration and want to work hard to make this country great. You can see the New Zealand First Party laughing. Well all those Labour members that turn up to all the ethnic events beware because the people there know that your agenda is to stop people coming into this country. That's what all socialists have ever done and that's what you're going to see out of that side of the House.The other thing socialists do is they love big spending. They love to promise and spend and spend and they've got to pay for that spending and that's going to come in increased taxes on New Zealanders. That is what these socialists are going to do in the next three years. They're going to increase the spending of Government. [Interruption] There were 51 promises yesterday Mr McAnulty. Watch your constituency look at that and go What's happening to my people?"The other thing socialists always do is think they're right. The 60 people that are on that side of the House always think they're right. They become the privileged elite. They know better than the 4.5 million people that are out there. That's what those socialists are going to turn into in the next three years—the privileged elite that know better than the 4.5 million. That's the reality of what we have entered into in New Zealand.It's an experiment based on a group of people that never got over 1984. They never got over the Labour Government that brought in reforms to this country. They want to go back to a utopia that never existed and never can and never will succeed. Mark my words. The end of socialism will come when you see higher interest rates lower growth and higher unemployment and you will see a mass exodus of New Zealanders going out of this country. There will be a housing crisis in this country that will be created by that socialist agenda and those 60 socialists over there.Now we've heard of all their good intentions—how they mean to do well and how they love to see this country prosper. But they don't mean that at all. The world has learnt the lesson of how socialism fails. Every experiment that has been tried in this area has failed. We will be the only country apart from North Korea in this region that will actually be taking on a socialist agenda. That will put New Zealand back generations and it is all on those 60 people over there.Well it's not actually all on those 60 people over there because 50 of them never actually got voted into Government. Only one man let them become the Government and that is a bitter and twisted individual that wanted to show that he was bigger than the system in his last term in this Government. So that is the true nature of what we will see from those parties over there.Today we saw that we cannot trust a single one on that side. There is no trust over there. They have reneged on all the things that they promised during the election campaign. There was going to be a fiscal plan that could be relied on by New Zealanders. That has gone out the window today. We cannot rely on the economic plan that the Labour Party was so stringent about during the election because the Budget is still to be prepared. We can't rely on any of those figures.We also can't trust them on housing. When they were asked today if there would definitely be 100000 houses built they could not commit to that. In fact the Acting Prime Minister today would not commit to building those 100000 houses which every candidate out there in the Labour Party went around spouting that they would build. There is no commitment from Labour members to do it and they are reneging on that promise.There is also the $1 billion of funding that the New Zealand First Party was promising during the election. They are reneging on that now as well saying some of that will be existing promises in things that are funded. There's no commitment there for a $1 billion fund for the provinces and we even see in the paper today that Wellington is getting into that $1 billion fund that ought to have been for the promises that the New Zealand First Party made.Then there was education today. There was a renege on education: the promise of a free first year of education. And what actually happens in that? Australian students can now come over here and get their first year of education free. That's what it means under Labour's plan. So there are going to be New Zealand teenagers working on the farms working in the orchards working in the factories—doing all those hard jobs in the New Zealand economy—and paying taxes for Aussie students to come over here and get their first year of education free. That's what the Labour Party has promised and that is what Labour is delivering. Go out to those young men and women that want to make the most of their lives and may not want to do it through a tertiary education and tell them that they are going to have to pay for some foreigners to come over here and enjoy our education system because that's what you've agreed to. That the plan that Labour has agreed to. We heard how strong Labour was going to be in dealing with international relations how they were going to go over there and tell the Australians what they think and they came back offering free education for the first year for every Australian student that can come to this country and hard-working Kiwi kids are going to pay for it. Andrew Little shakes his head. Andrew Little you know it's true. You know it's going to happen.Today we heard in question time the answers were: "We'll work through this in due process." "These things are still to be developed." "We're going to do a budgetary process." That is not the response that you expect from a new Government that's had nine years to work out things. That's not the response from someone that actually knows what they want to do. That's a response from people that are running and hiding and that's what these socialists are doing. They're running and hiding because they know that they don't actually know what they are going to do.If you look at socialism look at the Waikato for no better example of how it's going to fail because in the Waikato there were two things that were promised during this election for the gain of the Waikato region. The first was the continuous expressway to Tauranga. That is now gone. These socialists are going to spend that money on trams in Auckland going to Auckland airport from downtown Auckland so that the privileged elite of the socialist class can go on their flights overseas and the good people of the Waikato are going to miss out on that economic growth advantage.The other thing that was up for grabs in the Waikato in this election was the Waikato medical school and that's not going to happen under these socialists either because the Minister of Health is from Dunedin and the Dunedin university is the one biggest impediment to that medical school happening. They are definitely going to not let this happen. So the Waikato has lost the most out of this socialist agenda. Our farmers are going to get attacked. We've lost out in infrastructure that would have grown our strong economy.I am dismayed that this country has to endure an experiment that is put onto it by one man's fallacies and this country will have to pay for a decade to turn around that socialist experiment. It will not work. It cannot work. It has been proven time and time again in the history of the world to never work and the Green Party can hang their heads in disarray but when you look at question time and you look at the agenda that your party wants to do we know socialism is alive but it will be dead at the next election and all of you with it."