Robertson GrantGRANT ROBERTSON (Labour—Wellington Central): Well what a trio of contestants we have in National's most entertaining reality TV show. It is not so much the X factor as the why" factor. Why are these the only people the National Government can put up in front of us? Why has the National Government not created a deeper pool of talent it could present to New Zealanders? But these are the three we have so let us run through our contestants.Bill English: "Old Caretaker Bill"—like a cross between the caretaker in Are you being served? and Arkwright leaning on his broom giving you the minute detail of his view on social investment boring his way to glory. He is indeed the architect of National's policies; that is for sure. But there is a reason why people employ real estate agents to sell their houses not architects. Bill English does not even have the energy to get his hands out of his pockets. His campaign is sponsored by Mogadon. New Zealanders are going to sleep. He is the political equivalent of microwaved fish and chips from the night before—leftovers from 2002 which did not taste that good the first time around and are now soggy flaccid and stale. What an unfortunate number for Bill English in the UMR Insight poll on who the preferred leader is. He was in front on 21 percent. Any number but 21! It could have been 20 it could have been 23—any number but 21. But if he gets the job and I reckon he might he is just going to be minding the shop. He will never be seen as anything more than the caretaker the guy John Key dropped in it ready or not.Then we have contestant No. 2.Hon Member: Who's that?GRANT ROBERTSON: Old cigar-smoking Jonathan Coleman: "To the bedside manner born" as he was described by New Zealand Doctor magazine or as he is known to most New Zealanders "Who?"—or cheerfully "Doctor Who?". Jonathan told us that he has been taking a series of soundings as to whether he should be the leader. I understand most of these soundings were taken in the bathroom mirror. We have had the results leaked to us. They have come back with: "You're the man JC." "Go for it." and "When did you get so gorgeous?". Unburdened by modesty or self-doubt Jonathan is the candidate of change of rejuvenation. Finally a rich North Shore doctor so long part of the forgotten class of New Zealand will get his moment in the sun! And what a mess he has made of health. He is reduced day after day to a puddle of contradictions and jibber-jabber by the king of health my colleague Annette King. Here is Jonathan Coleman bleating away about the need for more money in health today. What has he been doing for the last few years?Then there is the third candidate Judith Collins who has done so much for the milk exports of New Zealand that she must be "Countess Homogenised—I've come to drink your milk." She does not bear grudges. Rather she embraces them keeps them in a locked dark cupboard nurtures them into full-grown feuds and then unleashes them to Cameron Slater for safekeeping. Let us just remember what she did in Oravida. She used a $36000 taxpayer-funded trip as Minister of Justice to promote a company where her husband was one of only three directors. She told us she popped into Oravida for a cup of tea on the way to the airport but she actually cancelled appointments in the justice area to drive 45 minutes in the other direction for that photo op. The National Government has two JCs in this contest. One of them thinks he walks on water and the other one thinks the original JC was a weak socialist hippy.So that is what we have got: corrupt and nasty versus vain and incompetent versus tired and out of touch. Such are the choices facing National a party that has relied for so long on the salesman skills of one man now cruelly exposed. The good news is that there is another choice: a Labour Government under an Andrew Little - leadership with a plan for New Zealand to be back at its best. Homeownership for young New Zealanders a place for everyone to live and call their own a health system where you get the best treatment no matter where you live or how much money you have a country where you know that every school the school your children will go to will be a world-class school and that there are decent jobs all around for every New Zealander; a country where security and opportunity are possible for all—that is the real choice for New Zealanders."