Peters Winston: Adjournment — Sittings of the HouseText is incorporated into the Bound VolumePeters Winston: Adjournment — Sittings of the House[Sitting date: 11 December 2013. Volume:695;Page:15502. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS (Leader—NZ First): The thanks of New Zealand First go to the many people who make this Parliament function effectively and it does so because of their commitment their integrity and their professionalism. There are a lot of people to acknowledge: the Speaker’s office the Clerk’s Office the Hansard reporters all the library staff and the telephonists. We appreciate the cheerful messengers and security staff for their hard work in keeping us all safe and keeping some under control and of course we thank the Bellamy’s staff. And of course there are the cleaners. They deserve special thanks and they deserve a pay rise. If we have overlooked anyone then I offer our apologies.I want to also thank for their support and dedication the New Zealand First staff who have helped make a real difference in this Parliament and in public. They all know of course that their hard work leads to the road of fortune in 2014.However it is much harder to be kind to the people over there who are again doing a runner early after spending a year wrecking the place. They do not want to face a nanosecond more of scrutiny. It is true that it has been a great year for their cronies but it has not been a great year for those people who are ordinary in this country many of whom have had their teeth kicked in over and over again. Never before in the history of human endeavour has so little been done for so many for the benefit of so few.Let us list some of these non-achievers. Let us list some of those non-achievers over there—their non-achievements.Hon Steven Joyce: Get some fresh material Winnie.Jacqui Dean: Oh grumpy old man.Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS: No I am very happy about this message because out there are hundreds of thousands of people who are waiting on the next word. They know that it represents hope and a future and a vision not the tawdry class politics beloved of that member from the South Island whenever she is there. Here are these non-achievements. The dream of owning as a young person your own home—just about gone. High-performing State assets like power stations—just about gone. [Interruption] Yes I might have been here for a long time but I do not look as old as you. Public broadcasting—just about gone. Job opportunities for the young—just about gone. Teachers’ regular pay which “Mr Fix-it” was going to fix up—just about gone. KiwiRail—just about gone.Hon Steven Joyce: Rubbish.Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS: I know it is rubbish. I will get down to your speciality later. Aluminium manufacturing industry—much of it just about gone. Some of our best dairy farmland—just about gone.Hon Steven Joyce: Rubbish again.Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS: These are rubbishy policies I know but I never expected Mr Joyce to be endorsing them. Much of the foreshore and seabed under claim now—just about gone.The member for Epsom—just about gone but going to court first. Theleaker fromŌhariu—the serialleaker—just about gone.The “member for Warner Bros”—the man who is all aspirational and who promised us a brighter future; the agent for Warner Bros Skycity and RioTinto—just about gone. And we know that that is in line with his memory which went a long long time ago. There he is the head of the SIS and head of the Government Communications Security Bureau—25 people know everything about what is going on but the man who is responsible did not know anything. He is going to lose being the Prime Minister on that one denial alone.If I was a backbencher over there I would not be so cocky. In fact I bet it is all knees knocking in their offices right now. I know that those members are deliberatelywanting to be somewhere else but I know that they are watching because I know what the feeling is like when you are about to go because your leadership has stuffed up.Jacqui Dean: How many seats does that party hold?Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS: And that member over there—look when that member came in she barely had a wrinkle. She barely had a wrinkle. Two years of this and she looks all worried. She is sweating.Our friends in the Māori Party—sadly alas just about gone. Why? Because they went and supped with the Devil. They went and supped with the Devil.In fact this is the most “just about gone” Government in history. Somebody should have told it that it does not own New Zealand.Hon Bill English: What about the ones you were part of?Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS: Ah Mr English one promise I can make to the audience around this country is that if you vote for New Zealand First you will decide the next election. You cannot make that promise. Oh no you cannot. That is one thing—Hon Steven Joyce: Play that record again.Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS: Oh I am going to be saying it over and over again. We are going to go right around New Zealand passing on this great message. We are going to keep hope alive.This country is not the “National Party and Limpets Ltd”. It is not the “National Party and Limpets Ltd”; it actually belongs to the people. Leaders are supposed to be guardians. This lot guard only their mates’ pockets and foreign companies. Ordinary Kiwis are never considered.We are losing jobs at an alarming rate. What do these political pygmies do? They bring in thousands of overseas students on so-called export education which means that that economy is meant to be helping our economy but then this Government gives them a job in New Zealand. So who is paying for the export education? Well we are. Steven Joyce is a prize fool. He calls it export education except our economy is paying for the exports. How does that work?Hon Steven Joyce: Xenophobia.Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS: Oh “xenophobia”. You cannot even spell the word. “Xenophobia”—I bet that he cannot spell the word and I will give him a chance now. Come on. Not a mutter not a murmur not a syllable not a sound. He cannot even spell the language.Here we go. He is proud about bringing in tens of thousands of foreign students to study here and then gives them working visas. How dumb is that? And what about giving full New Zealand pensions to people who have been here for only 10 years? They have paid no tax and made no contribution.The ghost of Ebenezer Scrooge stalks the corridors of the callous. This Government has brought ordinary Kiwis no Christmas cheer and its speeches have no change of heart. In today’sNew Zealand Heraldis an analysis on page A8 about how bad things are in this country. Look we have Rodney Henderson-MasseyWhauPuketāpapa—that is a Māori word in case a few of you do not know—Māngere-ŌtāhuhuŌtara-Papatoetoe Manurewa. These places are down by a staggering 12 to 70 percent after these people have been in power for 5 years. That is appalling.David Bennett: Oh nobody cares about those things.Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS: No no no the man with four dairy farms in the Waikato Mr Bennett is not feeling the pinch—oh no. Oh no he is not feeling the pinch but the last thing he wants is those people of west Auckland and South Auckland and all around provincial New Zealand to find out how badly off they are. This is terrible. How come he is not prepared to take a cut of 16 percent? Oh no not him.What I want to say is that there is nothing mystical about poverty. It is a result of low income not matching the cost of living. Not only has the Government done nothing to address inequality but many of its policies have made the situation much worse.What is New Zealand First’s record? Well in 2005 we demanded and got in our confidence and supply agreement with the Labour Party the biggest minimum wage rise this country has ever seen. We took it from $9 to $12 just like that. That is our record. [Bell rung] We do not just make the statements; we back them up.Jacqui Dean: It’s nearly over.Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS: I know that member’s career is nearly over. That member’s career is nearly over and do you know what the sad thing is? She could have been effective. She could have been effective if she had not sold out her conscience.Peter Lyons wrote a very good article in theNew Zealand Heraldrecently. He teaches at St Peter’s College in Auckland. He was talking about these people’s economic policies. He said: “What has evolved is a system of economic apartheid that would have shocked many of previous generations.” and he is right. They have changed the character shape and quality of our country and for the worse. And as if that is not bad enough as we are talking about Nelson Mandela’s life which is a celebration of his achievements against separatism and racialist laws National is taking us down the same path now—straight down the same path. Separatism for our constitution and for our foreshore and all sorts of new laws and social delivery all based on medieval tribalism.Hon Gerry Brownlee: Rubbish.Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS: I know it is rubbish but let me tell that member over there that there are a lot of Māori in whose name these demands are being made and claims are being answered and they are getting nothing. And even worse they cannot even live in a home.Hon Gerry Brownlee: That’s right—Shane took it all.Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS: Oh no that member can get red and embarrassed but I want to say this: New Zealand First is a party of traditional values. This party is the party of traditional values.Having said all that we will be back next year lean mean fit and ready to go. That is a serious warning for those lads over there. But being a party of traditional values we want to wish you Mr Speaker and all of our parliamentary colleagues—and particularly those people who have to work for some of them—the very happiest of Christmases and hopefully a very good new year. We have got one final message: hang on a bit longer because help is on its way.