Jones ShaneHon SHANE JONES (NZ First): The speaker who has just resumed her seat Sarah Dowie comes from the Roaring Forties. It is hard to believe a more irrelevant timid ill-prepared speaker could come from such an area that boasts gales of wind gusts of power.I must not be distracted because she has endeavoured to make a believer of herself in terms of their leader. In order for me to demonstrate how she has failed: [Holds up article] Simon Bridges' national roadshow a fail". Now why am I saying that Simon Bridges has failed and will not lead that party to the next election? Well let me start. If you eat a Mars bar and smoke a Moro—apparently this is national news—you do not go to jail. Simon Bridges you need to bear in mind that the Moro and the Mars sits next to the Kit Kat and the Kit Kat is something that is covered in caramel and wafer-thin—reflective I think of the man's political personage but he's worth a go.I think it was sad today that he dragged into a debate—a very emotional debate about what we're going to do with marijuana—the case of a family that's obviously suffering. You know a politician is in the straits of desperation when they reach out into private information and weave it into their speech or questions in the House. That is a no-no. Now he may or may not know those people but we've learnt the hard way those of us who have been around for a while that under no circumstances whatsoever Mr Simon Bridges should you seek to politically benefit from the suffering of a family and what they may or may not feel about such an emotional and moral issue.Let me continue on why he will not lead the party going into the next election. I have gone with characteristic bashfulness around the four winds of Aotearoa. Now I have been under instruction from my rangatira: "Shane look into your spirit and find humility and modesty." I have said to him "A spirit is hard to grasp." But I think the important thing that that side of the House are seeking to do every time they attack us is—we did rise to the challenge. I share with Kiwis that it is a big challenge and there are risks associated when you allocate up to $3 billion but we are picking up the unfinished business of the last Government. They did not want to fund the infrastructure.I hear Todd Muller who has completely and utterly confused his colleagues as to whether or not they like climate change or they don't like climate change. Initially they did like the reform of marijuana law; now they've changed their mind. See when you play desperate politics so far out from an election what it tells you is those desperate politics are driven by the leader of the party. He's trying to appeal to his own caucus but the caucus have already made their mind up. Now Judith Collins doesn't need to either touch marijuana or talk about marijuana to have a crazy impact on her leader and I make a prediction that he will not lead that party into the next election.Anyhow let me continue about our provincial efforts. They are not disconnected from what my colleagues are doing. My colleagues are working on State sector reform. Largely my contribution has been from the sidelines about improving the balance between conservation and the mineral extractive sector and from time to time it behoves me to clear my throat. That shouldn't be misconstrued by the other side of the House as being somehow an act of disunity; it shows how willing we are to champion all of the issues in the regions. But the sad fact of the matter is for that side of the House—never mind how many stories and scaremongering tactics they engage in—he did not capture the hearts and minds of ordinary Kiwis up and down the regions. At a time when the most popular politician in recent history is actually out taking personal leave he should have been in the cities. He should not have been talking to the diminishing number of local electorate committee members and those who have been unwilling to accept that MMP has thrust forward a new Government—a Government that is going to be a very robust advocate on all interests including provincial wealth."