Coleman Jonathan: General DebateText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeColeman Jonathan: General Debate[Sitting date: 07 May 2014. Volume:698;Page:17578. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]Hon Dr JONATHAN COLEMAN (Associate Minister of Finance): That speech made by David Parker really shows the problems that the Labour Party has. David Parker is a very nice pleasant naïve fellow trying to explain where Labour is at with economic policy. Frankly none of that makes sense to the person in the street. The fact is that it was a whole lot of garbage. In economic terms David Parker is like the bloke at the rugby club who still showers in his underpants. That is where he is at. He is totally naïve and out of touch. He has got this policy thing that he is calling the “big tool”. The problem is that no one out there in the real world can understand what the heck he is talking about. It is all academic mumbo-jumbo. It is no wonder that David Parker is not an electorate MP because quite frankly he has no connection with real people just like David Cunliffe his leader who makes out that he has been a guy who has sheared sheep and done all this sort of stuff.Hon Chris Tremain: He was a war hero.Hon Dr JONATHAN COLEMAN: Yeah his grandad was a war hero or whatever. Well that was not true. In actual fact David Cunliffe hides out in his Herne Bay mansion pretending to be the New Lynn blue-collar man and it just does not work.I will tell you something very interesting. I do not know whether you listened to Radio New Zealand National this morning butGuyonEspiner asked Grant Robertson whether he thought that his leader should reveal the details of his secret trust. I will tell you what: Grant Robertson would not back up David Cunliffe. He would not back him up. Grant Robertson was one of the 68 percent of people in the Labour caucus who did not want David Cunliffe as leader.The problem they have is that the Labour Party leadership is now for sale. And who have they sold it to? They have sold the leadership to the unions. Basically 70 percent of unions voted for David Cunliffe. Now the Labour Party has to deliver on what the unions want. That is a real problem because what the unions actually want is not whatNew Zealand wants. So these people as Steven Joyce has said have been caught up in all sorts of distractions all week.Meanwhile National is delivering for New Zealanders. There is fantastic economic growth. There is 3 to 4 percent growth in GDP predicted over the coming year. There were 68000 jobs created over the past year. The balance of payments is extremely healthy. Terms of trade are the best they have been for a long long time. David Cunliffe was going on about interest rates but do you know what they were under Labour in 2008? For a first mortgage they were 11 percent. That party was crippling the average Kiwi. So those guys do not have the record to stand on.David Parker was also talking about overseas investment and how he is going to do this and that and that New Zealand is not for sale. Well David Parker—their finance spokesman—personally signed off much much more land in his 5 years doing the job than we have in our entire time in Government. So these guys talk one game in Opposition but they are totally different in Government. We are just focusing on getting on with the job. We are focused on health education the economy and law and order—the things that matter to New Zealanders.Tony Ryall today announced $6.2 million for cochlea implants so that kids can hear. That makes a real difference. Paula Bennett announced that there was $10 million for sexual violence counselling services in the Budget. It is so important. The Christchurch announcement was about paying $3000 to get beneficiaries off their backsides and down to Christchurch to work develop a career and add something to the economy. We are tackling real problems.Those guys over there are just making it up. We have not heard any policy from Labour apart from the “big tool”. But do you know how bad it has got over there? It has got so bad that Labour has had to promote Trevor Mallard to be its economic development spokesman. Labour has now had to put Trevor—who is finished whom the New Zealand public hate—at No. 15 because the only guy there with any economic clue Shane Jones has actually said: “I’m out of here. I’m not going to be part of any Labour-Green setup.” What did he say? He said that Labour and the Greens together will not be promoting economic development. Shane Jones knows which way it is going. Shane Jones knows that it makes sense to come and work for the Government of New Zealand because we focus on what Kiwis care about. And when it comes to the election people are going to put all the rubbish—Dr David Clark:Oravida.Hon Dr JONATHAN COLEMAN: Oh that is David Clark for Dunedin North. He is the guy who says that he will ban Google from New Zealand. What an idiot. That is the standard we have got. He is another “shower in his underpants” bloke—the vicar from Dunedin who thinks he can help run the economy. I tell you what: those people are in trouble big time. We are delivering in health and education. We have the lowest crime rate in 25 years. Kids are achieving at school and the Polynesian community is achieving. I can tell you what. Labour members can say what they like but the public know which side their bread is buttered on.