King Annette: General DebateText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeKing Annette: General Debate[Sitting date: 11 November 2015. Volume:710;Page:7900. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]Hon ANNETTE KING (Deputy Leader—Labour): We heard today that the National Party is part of a 7-year-old Government. Well I say to Hekia Parata and to members opposite that the country is getting the 7-year itch. You know what happens when the 7-year itch comes—along with it comes divorce. Mr Deputy Speaker I have been here for some time as you know. I know when a Government is reaching the end of its time when the time is up and when the public starts to say: “Time to move on.”Chris Bishop: You’ve been saying that once a year for 7 years.Hon ANNETTE KING: And that will be particularly for you Mr Bishop. It will be time for you to move on.That time is when there is chaos in the House when there are points of order after points of order when there is anger when there are recriminations and when there are accusations. When the answers from Ministers are nothing more than sledging when the Prime Minister loses the respect of the office when the Prime Minister acts like a clown when everything is a joke when the most important issue of the day is what tie he is going to wear in the Parliament and what tie the Prime Minister of Australia is going to wear in this Parliament—when this House is reduced to that level you know that it is a Government that is on the way out.Those who say the Prime Minister’s position affords him respect I say to them that they are wrong. You earn respect in that position. That is what happens in that position. You earn respect and this Prime Minister has lost it. He has lost respect. He has lost dignity. He has lost decency. He has lost compassion. And he has lost interest in human rights as we have heard here over the last 2 days—if he ever had any interest in human rights. He still is the only person I have ever met in my life who did not know what side he was on on the Springbok Tour—whether he was for apartheid South Africa or not. But I noticed he was pretty quick to get over to the funeral of Nelson Mandela.I have a sense of déjà vu and I think the Rt Hon Winston Peters will have it too. There was a party that took a breach of privilege against a member Winston Peters who should never have had a breach of privilege taken against him. It spent a year crucifying him only to find that the public found it despicable. That is what I find despicable from the chief National Party whip who is such a big “boo baby” that he cannot take a little bit of sledging that happens in politics. I have heard much worse things said in this House I can tell you—much worse. In fact I think Trevor Mallard has said worse things than that in this House and he has not appeared before a Privileges Committee hearing.I want to start my contribution to this general debate today by saying that the National Party members hate the provinces. They hate the provinces. I remember last Wednesday’s debate. There they were one after the other sneering and scoffing and ridiculing because the Labour Party members were going to Palmerston North for their conference. National members thought it was a laugh. They thought it was hopeless. They did not see that we had the foresight to go to the mighty Manawatū to the city of Palmerston North one of the great provincial cities of New Zealand that has been wise enough to return a Labour member decade after decade.I want you to compare our conference in Palmerston North with the National Party conference in the Skycity Casino—the Skycity Casino. There they were holed up with dozens of security guards scared to death because there were a few protesters outside wearing high-vis vests. They were surrounded by the usual blue-rinse and pearls brigade and they were surrounded by a whole bunch of arrogant Cabinet Ministers who were there telling them what they ought to do. They made an awful lot of effort to keep the old unwashed out of that conference did they not? Goodness me! They might have made a mess if they had got in and told them the truth.Well I think the National Party has become one big Ya Ya Club—one big Ya Ya Club. If you do not know what a Ya Ya Club is it is one of these new elite clubs for the super-rich privileged kids of Auckland. I can tell you that the Ya Ya Club is now the National Party. That is what we are seeing—