Mitchell ClaytonCLAYTON MITCHELL (NZ First): I rise on behalf of New Zealand First to speak to the Our Work Our Future Bill. I have been sitting here in a bit of a quandary really. The bit of a dilemma that I have is how I am best to start my contribution for today's speech. With all due respect and of course with admiration for the person who has proposed this new bill I cannot help but draw the attention of the House to the remarks by the member whose bill this is—of course that is the honourable member Andrew Little. He starts off by saying that this is a landmark occasion: this is the first time a Leader of the Opposition has brought two bills down drawn from the ballot in Opposition to this House. But I have to say in actual fact one of those bills is a New Zealand First bill so it is not actually two bills that he has brought to the House. I have to say that the reality is if at the very—David Bennett: That's true. It's New Zealand First's.CLAYTON MITCHELL: Mr Bennett I will get to you in a moment. When you open your mouth you make stupid look intelligent.When you raised the question of this bill in the House we as New Zealand First had been speaking about procurement—making sure that we procure in New Zealand and put New Zealanders first—but the member himself has come out and said that this is a policy that the Labour Party has come up with. He says it is about New Zealand but he forgets a little point: to say it is about putting New Zealanders first. He goes on to say It is putting New Zealanders" and we would like to finish that sentence off by saying: "putting New Zealanders first." The Our Work Our Future Bill is at the very best plagiarism and at the worst an absolute rip-off—or a cheap imitation if you like of what New Zealand First has put through this House on numerous occasions in the past.This is a situation where we have over the past number of years seen—time after time—opportunities where both sides of the House have taken New Zealand First policy and used it as their own. We have seen it with regard to our community wage which was put in and taken out by the Labour Party and then just been recently brought back in to the House trying to label it as its own policy.Our immigration policy: this party over here that is now proposing that we need to tighten up on immigration—of course that is something that we have been proudly saying for 23 years. Of course we were called xenophobic and all sorts of racist connotations. And now take our position on being nationalistic and having a pride for our country. Foreign ownership: now this party is against foreign ownership of our land and it is talking about stopping speculative buyers buying up more property—that is another New Zealand First policy. Our youth employment and training initiative—again it is something that New Zealand First established got up and running and has a bill in the ballot box on specifically. The universal allowance has been in our manifesto since 1993. In fact perhaps Mr Assistant Speaker you could enlighten me as to the best way moving forward from here. At the end of my speech would it be appropriate for me to make a point of order and table our New Zealand First manifesto just so the member could take a copy and have quick reference to the polices that the party regularly takes as its own? No—not appropriate?The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Lindsay Tisch): You can seek leave at the end and I will judge whether the material is relevant or not. But I do ask the member to come back to what this debate is about and not talk about a wide range of other policies.CLAYTON MITCHELL: Thank you. It is just as relevant. This gentleman truly is the salt of the earth and a true gentleman and I feel that he would feel far more comfortable putting his name to a bill that was truly his if in fact he was part of New Zealand First. In fact I was at a meeting just recently and after my speech I was asked a question by a member from the floor. They said: "Is it true that New Zealand First is looking to put candidates in every electorate?". I said: "Yes we are." Then they said: "Is it true that Andrew Little is running for New Zealand First?". I said: "What are you talking about? How is that relevant?". He said: "Well he is taking so many of your policies I thought he might be becoming a member so I thought it might be appropriate if we gave him membership so he could actually join New Zealand First. He would feel better about taking our policies if he was part of the team if you know what I mean."This is a pragmatic bill as far as looking after the benefits of New Zealanders is concerned and I shake my head in disbelief when I hear absolute nonsense coming out of Brett Hudson's mouth saying that this is going to damage "New Zealand Inc." I mean Brett Hudson to be fair is the most disliked member of his own caucus by his own caucus members. But to be fair that just shows you the disconnect of that party when it comes to looking after the best interests of New Zealand and making sure that "New Zealand Inc." and New Zealanders have got the jobs that they need. Thank you."