Ngaro Alfred: General DebateText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeNgaro Alfred: General Debate[Sitting date: 26 August 2015. Volume:708;Page:6174. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]ALFRED NGARO (National): Over the past week the robust debate in the House has been about the health and safety reforms. There has been a lot of to-ing and fro-ing around what the most hazardous occupationis. Well it is official. As of today the most hazardous occupation is neither worm farming nor the harvesting of lavender flowers; it is actually being Leader of the Opposition which is the Labour Party. It is official because the New Zealand Herald DigiPoll survey of Labour supporters states itclearly: the Prime Minister is up ahead at 63.7 percent.But here is where the challenge lies—with Mr Little at 13.3 percent. This is where the challenge lies. He has finally risen above single figures. He is now in double digits. He feels like he is a little bit safe. But what is happening? Hot on his heels is Miss Jacinda Ardern at 3.9 percent. That is right. We know now for sure. The evidence is in. Phil Twyford—he is the numbers man. He is the one who rolled the numbers on David Shearer. He knows it. He is not looking across here but he will tell you that this is the truth. He is the numbers man who is working out there. We know that that is happening. There is trouble. They are worried. They know that this is going on.But we have had some inside knowledge. We know that Mr Little is now trying to raise himself to a point of relevance. What has he done? He has been working on a song. Actually it is not a new song; it is a song sung by Joe Cocker called “With a Little Help from My Friends”. He is using these words. He is practising them himself. It starts like this. Here is how the verse goes:What would you do if I sang out of tune?Would you stand up and walk out on me.Well we know that that has happened. You need only look across at the “three Ds”—David Shearer David Parker and David Cunliffe. That Budget speech was the worst speech in this House by a Labour leader. We know; their heads were down. They were ashamed. They wish that they could have stood up and walked out of the room. The second line says:Lend me your ears and I’ll sing you a songAnd I’ll try not to sing out of key.We interpret this as saying that Mr Little is trying to be like Mr Key. That is right; he wants to be popular. He wants to be aspirational but he is “Angry Andrew”. He cannot do the aspirational. He does angry better than aspirational. But it gets better. So he goes to the chorus. Here is the chorus:But I get by with a little help from my friends.It is 6.5 percent. That is right—the two and a half members who voted for him in the caucus. He is relying on them—the 2.5 percent who would support him. But it gets better:I get high with a little help from my friends.He is looking at the Greens at this stage seeing whether he can get some support. He looks across but Metiria is not giving him the eye of interest so that is gone. But then here are the Ginsu knives. He says: “I’m going to try with a little help from my friends.” He looks across at New Zealand First. Is help coming from them? Mr Winston Peters keeps saying: “But wait help is on its way.” He looked across. We were there during the by-election up in Northland. The Winnebago bus was going around the town. It was running.But let us chew the facts. The only reason that New Zealand First won is that Labour folded. That is right. Poor Willow-Jean Prime she folded over. She allowed her 4500 majority to go to New Zealand First. At the end of the day here is the telling tale: the day after the by-election Andrew Little looked across and said to Winston “Is there help from you?” but all that he saw on the beaches of Ahipara was footprints in the sand. That is right—footprints in the sand. There was no Winston there—that is right. There was no help—there was no help. It is a lost cause. He is looking across.It gets worse. We heard the “Mood of the Boardroom”—150 executives right around the country. This is what they said. Yes they still have confidence in the Minister of Finance. They still have confidence in Mr Key. But here is what they said: “Unless Andrew Little and Grant Robertson gain some credibility in the business world there will be no hope. They must gain some credibility.” This is not happening. We know that this is not happening because there is confidence in this Government.It is a sad day. Mr Little is looking for friends but they are not coming from New Zealand First they are not coming from the Greens and they are certainly not coming from the two and a half members in his caucus. We know that his days are over. Health and safety: we know that Leader of the Opposition—that position held by Labour—should be high on the agenda. We need to protect the Labour leader. Thank you.