Peters Winston: General DebateText is incorporated into the Bound VolumePeters Winston: General Debate[Sitting date: 06 April 2016. Volume:712;Page:10245. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS (Leader—NZ First): The leak of over 11.5 million documents in the Panama papers is further proof that there is something awfully rotten in the world of international finance. The PM’s response was to childishly claim that he is right and that every international commentator—including the UK’s much-respected economists—and tax experts everywhere are wrong.The scandal has clearly claimed the Icelandic Prime Minister and swirls around the Government of Malta and many others. Mr Key is clearly rattled when he resorts to curt statements like “I’m right.” on tax haven status before blaming the previous Government—all in the same sentence all in the same breath and with him being well into his third term. Above board and foreign jurisdictions he says can ask our Inland Revenue Department (IRD) for information on their foreign-owned trusts in New Zealand. That is an answer worse than Wall Street. How would Germany be able to make an inquiry of our IRD if it did not have any registration or identification and that trust is hiding under the veil of secrecy? It is moronic to say that. Unless it asks for every file which the IRD will instantly plead privacy for then it could not possibly know what it is looking for. It is a nonsense. If it walks like a duck sounds like a duck quacks like a duck and smells like a duck it most probably is a corrupt duck.The PM says that all is above board there is nothing to look at here and that he is right and everyone else is wrong. But in the same sentence he says to blame the last Labour administration. Today he said to blame me—that is yours truly—and my smart clever colleagues. If everything is above board why would you blame the last administration? But it is not above board and countless warnings have been ignored.It is a bad look for the National Party and yesterday’s and today’s body language tells you everything. Every front-bencher and backbencher is looking downwards. All of a sudden they have got some urgent written material to read. They are trying to escape public scrutiny. The PM was asked—Hon Members: Ha ha!Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS: Do not laugh guys. This is not funny. The PM was asked: “Are any of your present and former ministerial colleagues involved?”. Twenty-four hours later we want to know what checks he and his colleagues have made. Were any of his present and former colleagues involved? Twenty-four hours later not a mutter not a syllable not a sound. But this is not going to go away. This we can say already.This matter is not going to go away and any National MPs over there and others who need National to get more than 40 percent at the next election should be refining their CVs. Brett Hudson is gone—goodbye Ōhāriu. Bakshi is gone—goodbye patsy questions. Jian Yang is gone—goodbye our man in Beijing. Sadly Alfred Ngaro is gone—no more kia orana. Paul Foster-Bell is gone—goodbye cherub. Parmjeet Parmar is gone—goodbye the Indian connection. Chris Bishop is gone—hallelujah praise the Lord! Nuk Korako is gone—goodbye “Never Nuk”.Jono Naylor is gone—goodbye Wellington hello Palmerston North. Maureen Pugh who just got here—hello West Coast again. And “Jimbo” and Marama and Peter Dunne and Seymour—all gone.But there is one great benefit from these Panama papers. Do you know what it is? More and more people are seeing the Prime Minister for what he really is like and that is a good thing. More and more people in the National Party are seeing this man for who he is. He is running into some heavy weather and is deciding to look around now for Rudolph. I can see in their faces the shock and fear of yesterday. But I can tell you one thing: New Zealand First is not in this Parliament to muck around. We have much worse coming on this. We will make sure it is sheeted home. The Prime Minister is at the centre of a cover-up. He is the veil of secrecy’s greatest defender and he is going to take his party and a stack of people over there down with him. I say this sincerely and so do my colleagues: the National Party voter deserves much better than that.David Bennett: Mr Speaker. [Interruption]