Seymour DavidDAVID SEYMOUR (Leader—ACT): Thank you Mr Speaker. And I say kia ora" to my fellow class of 2014 mate or team member Peeni Henare.I was astonished yesterday to hear that Grant Robertson feels threatened walking around New Zealand. I say that because the ACT Party frequently holds hundreds of street corner meetings town hall meetings and door knocking events up and down New Zealand each year. And we find that New Zealand remains a fantastic place to do politics.Let me say to anybody who thinks they are going to win a political point by threatening a member of Parliament: politics is ultimately about persuasion and you can't be a very good persuader if you have to threaten someone with a lamington.On that point I was astonished to hear that Grant Robertson feels threatened by lamingtons. I would have thought that Grant Robertson would be a much bigger threat to lamingtons than lamingtons would be a threat to Grant Robertson.And actually when I think about it Grant Robertson and this Labour Government are an enormous threat to many other aspects of New Zealand society. It's not just the lamingtons; it's also the hard-working taxpayer who under a Labour Government—since Grant Robertson has been the Minister of Finance—has seen their income taxes go up from just over $9000 on average to just over $12000. That's a 30 percent increase in income tax per person under Labour; more than twice the rate of inflation. People think inflation's going up fast; wait until you see income taxes going up at twice the rate.Farmers are under enormous pressure from this Government. This Government is a threat to farmers telling them that they have to get their winter cropping plans in by the end of the month and yet they haven't done it and they won't get resource consent and they won't be able to legally farm the way this Government's tried to centrally control farming with its freshwater laws. There's the motorists. People like to drive in this country but the Reshaping Streets plan is a manifesto for the most ragtag activists in every town and city in this country letting them reshape streets taking away your carparks outside your business putting pot plants in the middle of the road—this is serious; they call it "modal filters"—to stop people driving.Then there's the landlords constantly under attack from this Government for having the temerity to save up buy a house and offer accommodation to someone else. Here's a tip for the Labour Government: if you think there's a shortage of places for people to live maybe stop attacking the people that offer accommodation to fellow New Zealanders.Speaking of houses there's our neighbourhoods and a three-by-three townhouse development going up next door in any town or suburb in this country because Labour and National got together and did a dirty deal that won't deliver one more house than we already would have had. Why? Because zoning's not the issue; infrastructure building and building materials are the issue. This dirty deal will only mean the same number of houses get built in different places that greatly erode the property rights that people bought into in their town.What about small businesses? What about employers? They just got 450 million bucks put on to their expenses so we can have a holiday for the Queen a week after the rest of the world moves on. Isn't that so typical of New Zealand a country that's so slow to reopen and reconnect that they just can't get the staff? I met a shopkeeper in Christchurch last week: 156 days without a single day off to keep the doors open because this Government has closed the borders and created a labour crisis with its immigration bureaucracy.Then there's the licensed firearm owners our sometimes forgotten group. The police just lost 2500—well we don't know exactly how many records of people's firearms. And this Government wants to keep a record of where every firearm in the country is kept. So it could be a steal-to-order list for the gangs but don't worry: they're not going to lose it this time. We don't trust them because if we could they would have kept their records secure last time.Then there's the children. They've got Kelvin Davis. Anyone who listened to Kelvin Davis as the Minister for Oranga Tamariki trying to explain where $42 million went—spoiler alert: he wasn't sure—weeps for the safety of vulnerable children in this country.Then there's education. We just found out there's been a 10-year experiment of so-called "innovative learning environments" where kids were put into barns with multiple classes and teachers with no evidence or rigour to show it would work at all.There are many dangers to New Zealanders there are many dangers to lamingtons; and Grant Robertson is chief among them all."