Tabuteau FletcherFLETCHER TABUTEAU (NZ First): Look across at the other side of the House right now. Look at them. Look at their eyes opening like newborn babes as the thumb comes off and they realise: We can think for ourselves. We can think. We don't need to be told what to say and do any more." Look at their eyes. They are like headless chooks right now—they are like headless chooks they really are. They do not know what to do with themselves. They are running around the room and they are literally bumping into one another. Then they are running to corners and they are whispering to one another. Today for example I saw a group of Ministers and MPs I have never seen together sitting down chatting to one another. Goodness knows what about—goodness knows what about.Hon Member: Asking them their names.FLETCHER TABUTEAU: "Doctor who? 'Crusher' who?" So here we are now. It is wonderful. The thumb has come off the leader has left the building and the sycophantic bobbleheads no longer have to bobble their heads quite as hard as they had to the week before. It is wonderful. It is empowering for them. But it is freaking them out—it is freaking them out. I think it is fair to say that the "Hunger Games" have begun. What we are now seeing is the aspirants fighting one another now—Todd Barclay: Mahesh. Give Mahesh a go.FLETCHER TABUTEAU: —for the leadership of the National Party a party that has passed its use-by date and is probably on its way down anyway Mr Barclay.Now we have to ask: what has the New Zealand public been saying to those people over there? What has the public been saying? What has the response been to this amazing news that John Key has left the building? Actually it is quite simple: now is not the time for tax cuts look after the people of New Zealand first—talk about that. Now is not the time to be talking about housing consents; now is the time to be actually building homes for New Zealanders. Stop talking about it and start doing something about it. Stop the flood of migrants coming into the country and manage the population of New Zealand for the benefit of New Zealand. Make it work. Make it work. Fix the gap. Here is the critical one because—I will get into the detail shortly for some of the smiling members on the other side. Fix the gap between the ultra-rich and the desperately poor. That is what the people of New Zealand want to see.Those backbenchers like the rest of New Zealand now want to see an actual plan. For too long they have been detritus or debris floating on the sea of random chance. To be fair to Mr English it has worked out not too bad for him. He has been able to paint some pretty numbers but New Zealanders know that there is no plan and right now the future is not looking bright at all.What is the legacy of this former Prime Minister of the Prime Minister who has left the building? What is his legacy? Let me put it to the House in the form of numbers because you cannot argue with the numbers. Since that National Government came into power farmers' debt has increased by $17.2 billion; businesses now owe $13.8 billion more and it was $100 billion before that; and homeowners have almost doubled their debt in terms of debt for their homes. This is the legacy of that National Government. Here are some numbers for that side of the House: private debt has increased by $409 every second since that party came into power. That works out to be $24000 every minute. That is $1.47 million every hour and $35.5 million every single day on that former Prime Minister's watch—on that Government's watch. It is debt—mountains of debt. It is businesses borrowing more and more to do less and less. It is people borrowing just to survive week to week. This is not John Key's legacy but the legacy of a decapitated snake now in its death throes. Thank you."