Jones Shane: General Debate 
Jones Shane: General Debate 
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Hon SHANE JONES (Minister for Building and Construction) 
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 Kia ora no tatou. Greetings to you Mr Assistant Speaker and to all of Aotearoa. The man who just sat down has a new career possibly in Hawke’s Bay or in the medical system dispensing anaesthesia. The man is incapable of holding an audience. He has just given a dissertation on the combination of dung and manure in South Island pasture. He is an expert on it because he embodies those qualities and although his rhetoric was very dry it will be capable of putting people to sleep up and down the country. 
When John Key inflicts himself again on my Ngapuhi whanaunga and wanders around rubbing noses with Tame Iti Ngapuhi will have a new waiata for him. It is a waiata that belongs to the social progressive justice movement of the United States of America and comes from Simon and Garfunkel. It is called “Slip Sliding Away”. Line one: “Slip sliding away”; line two: “Slip sliding away”; line three: “You know the nearer your destination the more you slip sliding away”. 
John Key mistakenly thought that by wandering around the country tacking as if he is looking for foul wind or a clear wind by emulating and filching our policies he would convince the average Kiwi that he had a future leading our country. Boy has he fallen flat and disappointed a number of people—not least the shadowy influences that brought him into politics. They believed that he represented a fresh affable personable countenance but lurking deep down are the monsters that really drive the position of the party opposite. They are people who are reflected in the stories of  
The Hollow Men 
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John Key is wandering from one post to the other. What a contradiction. He endeavours to flatten his nose in the company of Tame Iti one week and then he is cuddling Roger Douglas the next week. He has two options and that is what our people need to bear in mind. Firstly he will be trying to seduce our average Maori voter into believing that the Maori Party has a future by cuddling up to National. What will be spawned—the mokopuna the name the breed—beggars the mind. And if that is not good enough he is quietly happy that the ACT party is endeavouring to practise something that belongs in theology—that is rising from the dead—by bringing Roger Douglas back into this House. The majority of the voters were not even out of school when Sir Roger Douglas was practising his politics. His positions—his politics—belong in a chapter of our history that has long since gone. 
There is a person who I feel does deserve mention in this House this afternoon and that is the member who currently holds the seat of Rakaia. Now to the Ngapuhi-s the word “rakaia” means to lock up and Mr Connell has definitely been locked up. But let no one forget his doing in bringing Don Brash down—of course Don Brash was down in another fashion but that is another story—in delivering the head of Don Brash to his former friends Mr English and Mr Key. And what did we hear? Poor Mr Connell expressed the sentiments of a large number of parliamentarians and invited a journalist to go rapidly to the toilet. No the man is derided the man is embarrassed the man is attacked by Mr English who disingenuously complains that he is not showing good form in his connections with the media. 
In actual fact Mr Brian Connell was the single politician who brought to the attention of the media and the nation the nature of Don Brash’s activities etc. And how is he being rewarded? OK he is going away on a tipi haere overseas but boy what a very sad chapter to his final steps. I really liked the guy; he enjoyed our company overseas and I wish him well into the future. But he is learning a story that one cannot trust either of those two guys. After doing the hard man’s job he has been sent out either to grow onions or to study the pasture and dung combination reflected by the former speaker. 
A lot of the ideas that we will be taking forward to our voters are being purloined and misrepresented. Of course we have Paula Bennett who is sitting just behind the seat generally occupied by the “pink batt” wearing green today reflecting the fact that she is solidly behind Lynne Pillay’s bill to save the moths the bugs and the various other ngarara occupying the Waitakere Ranges. She has actually forgotten that hundreds of thousands of New Zealand families have flocked to make use of the 20 hours’ free preschool care and the value of that outstrips any tax cut that John Key or Bill English could ever deliver to those needy New Zealand families. Paula Bennett disgraced herself and now she is embarrassed by what she said. Kia ora tatou.