Seymour DavidDAVID SEYMOUR (Leader—ACT): Well this debate has been a little bit like a water-skiing contest in a shark tank. There's been so much shark jumping from every side of the House. I've never seen the likes of it. We've just heard Greg O'Connor attempt to do a rendition of Sir Winston Churchill. Well I can tell Greg O'Connor that the people will be sitting around in the pubs of Ōhāriu thinking That man is no Sir Winston Churchill."—no question about that. And then we had Amy Adams telling us that this bill will make New Zealand like Uganda or the types of countries that Donald Trump likes to speak of in Africa. Well I can assure the people at home that this bill is not the end of democracy. Nick Smith told us that we should fight this bill with every bone in our body. Spare us the melodramatics. Then we had perhaps best of all poor Andrew Little who had to spend eight minutes of his speech—the eight minutes after he said everything he could think of to say in the first minutes—trying to fill in the full ten. The truth is that this bill is not really an affront to democracy. It returns us to the rules that we had for the first nine years of the MMP system. It's not the end of the world as we know it but it is also completely unnecessary and rather stupid. The truth is that the only reason that we are having this particular bill is one paranoid man who's been voted out of three electorate seats—that is all three that have elected him; you'd think he might have got the hint after the first one or maybe the first two but the people of Northland thanks to the very able Matt King had to really give him the message last year—who has chosen a Government and who has form for falling out with people. As David Farrar very well set out on his blog last week Winston Peters has hand-picked around 30 members of Parliament to join him in the New Zealand First caucus and he has fallen out publicly with—these are just the ones we know about people that he picked to come into Parliament that he publicly fell out with—more than half of them. In a former life I was an electrical engineer and one thing we're good at is maths and basic arithmetic. This Government has a majority of three. There are nine New Zealand First members of Parliament. If Winston Peters' form is that he falls out with half them then 63 minus 4 is 59 and this Government will be over in a term just based on the number of people that Winston Peters publicly falls out with in any given term of Parliament. So the reality of this bill is that this Government just on the basic numbers is sunk because Winston Peters is pathologically unable to get on with people that he brought into Parliament with himself. This bill is necessary only because Winston Peters cannot get on with people even with his own caucus; cannot trust people; and is paranoid so much so that he has used his political capital to get the Labour Party and most surprisingly the Green Party to vote to change the electoral laws of New Zealand. That is the take-out from this bill. All electoral systems have their flaws. There is no perfect electoral system and this one won't be much better or worse than what we'd otherwise have. But what you can take out of this bill and what the people at home watching this debate can take out is that it's a sad day for our great democracy to be at the whims and paranoia of a man who pathologically can't get on with his own colleagues who's been kicked out of three electorates and sacked from three different Cabinets—and there's one more to come this election. This Government would fall without this bill entirely because Winston Peters cannot be trusted by the people that he sits in caucus with. What a shame. The ACT Party will be opposing this bill."