Seymour DavidDAVID SEYMOUR (Leader—ACT): It has been a great 3 years in this Parliament and for ACT it is just a new beginning. I am 16 points ahead in the Epsom electorate before anybody endorsed me and I am going to be working hard for the next 8 weeks to earn the support of my neighbours to send me back here to represent them in Parliament again.But that is just the beginning because with an electorate seat every single party vote for ACT counts; 1.2 percent of the vote brings Beth Houlbrooke into Parliament—an award-winning businesswoman a mother of two the elected chair of the Rodney Local Board—and what an outstanding MP she would make. Some people watched the Auckland mayoral election. Some people watched Chlöe Swarbrick and thought: She is pretty good but imagine if she had an economics degree." Well that is No. 3 on our list Brooke Van Velden and what an outstanding MP she would make. Some people ask: what if you had an international cricketer and a renowned leader within his community of South Auckland? That is Bhupinder Singh and with Epsom plus 2.8 percent Bhupinder Singh becomes an ACT member of Parliament. What if you had a guy a guy who left school at 16 started working at Countdown and became "Mr Fix-it" in the organisation one of Countdown's top managers whom they send in to fix their tough problems? That is Stephen Berry. Repeating our 2008 performance of 3.5 percent of the party vote plus Epsom that is a team of MPs who would make this Parliament proud and who would represent New Zealanders well.Why would we want to do that? Well there are a lot of positive reasons to vote for ACT but let us just focus on how bad the alternative is and how bad the Opposition is. The Labour Party is on course as Richard Prebble recently said for total destruction. It may be the first of the Labour parties in the Western World to completely implode. You only have to look at their dilemma when you see their position on ACT's partnership schools kura hourua. Half the caucus is in favour; half of them are against. The leader says they are going to be closed; Kelvin Davis says he will resign if they are closed. Which one is it? Does the Labour Party today represent poor disadvantaged Māori children who want choice and opportunity in education or does it represent adults with comfortable well-paying jobs who happen to join teacher unions and support the Labour Party?Then you come round to New Zealand First. What a disaster. There is Winston Peters. He has been sacked from Cabinet three times by three different Prime Ministers. He has been voted out of two electorates and the third electorate has not had an opportunity to vote him out yet but help is on its way. It is going to vote him out on 23 September. This is a guy who has more bottom lines than a 100-year-old elephant. He is now up to nine bottom lines. He has peaked too early in this election and he is going to find out that the problem with Winston Peters' politicking is eventually you run out of other people's gullibility. He still has not paid back the $158000—Rt Hon Winston Peters: I raise a point of order Mr Speaker.DAVID SEYMOUR: —and frankly the way he campaigns is racist.Mr SPEAKER: Order! A point of order—the Rt Hon Winston Peters.Rt Hon Winston Peters: I will tolerate a fair bit from that member but I will not tolerate him getting up and making deceptive deceitful statements like that. I know what we paid back—all $158000 in circumstances—Mr SPEAKER: Order! The member will resume his seat. [Interruption] Order! That is not a point of order. [Interruption] Order! That is not a point of order. That is very much a debating matter. The member can continue his speech and if the member feels he has been misrepresented throughout the speech there is another means. It is not raised on the floor of the House. I refer the member to Standing Order 359.DAVID SEYMOUR: If one ACT MP can get that far under Winston Peters' thin skin imagine how far five ACT MPs could get. He does not like it up him but the ACT Party has kept him out of power for the last three elections and we are going to do it again. I understand his frustration but he has got to stay there.What about poor old James Shaw? You have got to hand it to Metiria Turei; she has won. I used to get business people coming up to me saying: "You know I saw that James Shaw. It seems like they've finally got someone sensible in the Greens." Well not any more because the Green Party is now the party that says: "We're gonna give you a 20 percent pay rise to stay at home and don't worry if you want to smoke drugs on the taxpayers' expense and don't worry about looking for a job. If you do that we're gonna raise your taxes." Those are not the values of New Zealand and it is the end of an expansionist Green Party. What a tragedy for James Shaw.There is a lot more to come because people might start to ask the question: how deep did the fraud go? Were there children actually in the house when Metiria Turei was claiming the DPB or were they actually living on the North Shore with Ann Hartley under a whāngai arrangement? We look forward to hearing that from Metiria Turei. Maybe she did not even have any kids in that flat where there were too many people when she was claiming the DPB. Let us find out later in the debate.A vote for ACT is a vote for stable centre-right Government keeping the other muppets out and tackling the hard issues such as housing tax education and fairness between generations that have been neglected for too long. Thank you."