Lees-Galloway Iain: General DebateText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeLees-Galloway Iain: General Debate[Sitting date: 10 April 2013. Volume:689;Page:9243. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]IAIN LEES-GALLOWAY (Labour—Palmerston North): What an outrageous set of almost accusations from that member over there Mark Mitchell. Let us talk about the difference between the mistake that David Shearer made and what has been happening with John Key. David Shearer made a mistake. When he realised he had made a mistake he stepped up he went forward and he said: “Guys I’ve made a mistake.” He went down to the press gallery and he told them what the story was. What does John Key do? When John Key knows he is in trouble what is his first inclination? His first inclination is to cover it up tell half the truth obfuscate and stand there and let the truth drip out bit by tiny bit. It is like pulling fingernails trying to get the truth out of John Key. And that is why New Zealanders are losing confidence in this National-led Government. That is why New Zealanders are losing confidence in John Key because they know they cannot trust him. They cannot trust him. They cannot trust this John Key-led Government to be working for them.New Zealanders cannot trust the Government to protect them from illegal spying. They cannot trust John Key. When he found out when he was the first Minister responsible for the GCSB to be told that the Government Communications Security Bureau had been carrying out illegal spying on New Zealanders he did not step in and say: “New Zealand this is what is happening and I’m going to put a stop to it.” He covered it up for months. He held the truth back for months. He refused to tell the truth until he was put in a position where he had no choice. That is the difference.New Zealanders cannot trust this Government to protect their information to protect their privacy. It does not matter whether it is the Earthquake Commission the ACC Work and Income the Inland Revenue Department and now Novopay’s Talent2 and even at the Ministry of Justice people’s information is leaking like a sieve leaking like this Government because New Zealanders cannot trust National to keep their information private. And what does the Prime Minister say? That he is relaxed about it—he is relaxed about it. People’s sensitive information is being made available to who knows whom and John Key is just relaxed about it. That is because he is not working in New Zealand’s interests or in the interests of New Zealanders. Who does John Key work for? He works for his mates. That is who John Key works for. That is what the asset sales are all about—taking assets that all New Zealanders own and putting them out so that his mates can buy them all up. That is who John Key is working for—his mates and multinational companies.The latest we have seen of this is this ridiculous proposition from Simon Bridges to ban protesting by environmental protesters. We live in New Zealand Simon Bridges one of the most open democracies in the world where protest is acceptable. But who is Simon Bridges working for? He is working for some faceless foreign multinational corporation. That is who Simon Bridges and John Key are working for not for New Zealanders. It was the same deal with Skycity—not working in the interests of New Zealanders and not working in the interests of reducing problem gambling; working for John Key’s mates at Skycity. And what aboutThe Hobbit? This Government is not there to uphold workers’ rights or workplace law and not there to make sure that we are the shining beacon of industrial relations that we have always been. It is there to work for Warner Bros a multinational corporation—John Key’s mates again.Of course let us not forget the directors at Mighty River Power who received a 73 percent pay increase when the shares in Mighty River Power are being ripped away from hard-working New Zealanders. And who gets the benefits? It is John Key’s mates who are the directors of Mighty River Power.Hon Clayton Cosgrove: They didn’t even ask for it.IAIN LEES-GALLOWAY: They did not even ask for it. This is just what this Government does. It is there for its buddies not for ordinary New Zealanders. But hey we have known this for some time. We have known that John Key’s memory is a bit shonky. He could not come up with a straight answer if his life depended on it. There were the Tranz Rail shares the South African tour the drinking age the Dotcom briefing calling his buddy Ian Fletcher and being told that the Government Communications Security Bureau was acting illegally. Did he front up? No. Why? Because New Zealand cannot trust John Key.