Peters Winston: Adjournment — Sittings of the House 
Peters Winston: Adjournment — Sittings of the House 
[Volume:614;Page:10766] 
Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS (Leader—NZ First) 
: 
 It is obvious from the early closing of Parliament that for this Government the wheels are coming off. 
Edwin Perry 
: Haven’t got a spare either. 
Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS 
: No it has not got a spare either. Today will be remembered because in all my experience I have never seen a Parliament rise so early—and on a Tuesday. It has never risen on a Tuesday and never on a Tuesday night. Today will be remembered as the day when this Labour-led Government ran up the white flag and ran for cover rather than debate the pressing issues of our time. Like Saddam Hussein Helen Clark is heading for an underground bunker so she can escape not only the Maori MPs but the people of New Zealand who expected leadership and got a loser. Members know how Saddam always said his troops would die for their country; well she expects her troops to die—but she is never here. Any time there is trouble she is gone. We cannot see her for dust and small pebbles. That is Helen Clark—this person beloved of the media who keep on saying that she is more in the Holyoake mould. I have never heard such a joke in all my life. She is never here to confront the campaign never here to confront the issues in Parliament and always running for cover. On election days election weeks and election months she comes out for one meeting a day and runs back home for a rest. The meeting is usually with schoolchildren not adults. It is all time and motion spin and propaganda. 
She loves letting other people do her fighting for her. She wins all her fights by a hundred yards. She is gone—never here. Why is this House rising so early when there is so much more we should be doing? I ask: what about petrol price rises? Up goes the currency but there is no fall in petrol prices. Worse still the Government is slamming on a tax to finance Auckland’s roads it says when it knows full well that that is an exercise in deception. For every $2 collected it is spending $1 on the roads; the Government is robbing people blind. I ask members about the 300 schools the Government is going to close—300 schools. Can we imagine Trevor Mallard if this side of the House were doing that? Can we imagine Trevor Mallard with his cleft-palate sound if we were doing that? Then there is the rising currency that is paralysing exporters. What is the now new prisoner—the man guilty of the Stockholm syndrome Michael Cullen—doing about that? 
Ron Mark 
: Nothing. 
Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS 
: He cannot do a thing. He says there are no instruments that can be used to give exporters a fair go in this country even though they are the most critical people in New Zealand. He will not move a muscle and nor will Helen Clark because they are too scared of being perceived as being anti-business. But it is damaging all of New Zealand now and they have no answers for it. Why will we face interest rises next year? What is their answer? Out there ordinary New Zealanders know that this Government has just seen its best time and is starting to fall. 
It is no use Damien O’Connor shaking his head or Darren Hughes shaking his head. I know he is new but since February his glorious leader has lost 25 percent of her vote and as soon as she tumbles under 30 percent it will be a case of: “Goodbye Helen.” Looking around for the lad I say that maybe Darren Hughes’ chance will come but Helen Clark is on a slide and she will not win the next election. Do members know why she is running? Because she has got the Maori members upset. The Maori members are upset. 
Opposition Members 
: Where are they? 
Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS 
: I cannot answer that question. I cannot say where they are but they must be off with Snow White because there is only one here. There she is on TV and radio today trying to explain away Tariana Turia’s words. We all know what Tariana Turia meant—everybody knows. Why should Tariana Turia not say it as that is precisely what the Labour party members promised in 1999 to deliver to the Maori people? The Labour Party were so besieged in the Maori seats that they promised Maoridom anything and everything. The only thing is Tariana Turia is lining up and saying that it is payback time. 
David Benson-Pope 
: What you want is a big scam. 
Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS 
: Well if that member wants to look at a big scab he should look in the mirror. I should not have said that but it is Christmas and nor should that member have said it. I want to give this Government a warning that the people of this country will not tolerate any more separatist government or separatist policies. They have had a gutsful of weirdo policies emanating from the back bench when it comes to prostitution and all sorts of weirdos’ rights. A back-bench memberbelieves that P should be legalised. Where does this guy come from on the Government’s back bench that this Government is supporting? I have never seen such a weird liberal bunch in this Parliament in all my life and that is saying something because there have been some past times when there have been some weirdos here. But this bunch takes the credit. All the time whilst the major economic and social issues go untreated they proselytise their own peculiar narrow shallow weird odd points of view. 
David Benson-Pope 
: Delamare’s telling the whole country what he thinks of this man. 
Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS 
: Oh I see. Delamare is now Lianne Dalziel’s adviser. The man she called a liar a fraudster and corrupt is now her adviser. Mind you as damaging as Delamare is given her performance he cannot be the only one. There has to be somebody else out there who is advising her as well. [ 
Interruption 
] He cannot be as incompetent as that. This is a Minister of Immigration who cannot explain why in New Zealand today there are 300000 people who cannot speak English—300000 in this First World democracy—at a time when the great Labour Party and National Party prided themselves on getting rid of illiteracy. 
Hon Lianne Dalziel 
: Read the statistics. 
Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS 
: Well they are all there. They are all in the briefing paper to the Minister except she does not read them. Poor Lianne Dalziel! She knows she is on a hiding to nothing. She knows she cannot win. She knows that every day in this House it is like taking candy from a baby. I know it is not fair. Frankly my colleagues say to me: “Winston you’ve got to find a new job. That one’s far too easy.” But in the interests of the nation I keep on doing it hoping upon hope that more New Zealanders will hear the truth and one day they will rise. They will rise up and throw this useless Labour Government out. [ 
Interruption 
] There you go! Is she speaking in this debate? No. Her debate is always by way of interjection. Now I have to ask members this. 
Darren Hughes 
: Give us your foreshore policy. 
Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS 
: It is on the Internet. It was there on day one. That member should go and read it. Let me tell members this though. Out in Maoridom they are rising in their tens of thousands behind New Zealand First and the Government will not stop them. Do they know why? Because we say what we mean and we mean what we say. We promise Maoridom progress for sacrifice not tears. We focus on health welfare education First World jobs and above all a place in one’s own country. Maoridom knows that we will not sell out to the foreigner. Maoridom knows that Asia will not run New Zealand—and nor will the United States or the UK. Maoridom knows when they vote for New Zealand First they get New Zealand for New Zealanders run by New Zealanders and they get fair policy. 
Hon Lianne Dalziel 
: They get it now. 
Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS 
: No I want to tell the Labour Prime Minister that an immigrant is someone living legally in a country not of his or her birth and that does not include those of us who go back 1000 years 50 years or for that matter 100 years. I have never heard so much bunkum. “We’re all immigrants.”—rubbish! We are not all immigrants. Those who arrived here and settled here from another country are immigrants. The rest of us are indigenous whether we are white or we are brown. That is our policy. 
I want to say this. The Prime Minister has become a victim of her own success and pride goeth before a fall. New Zealand First is on the rise. The Government will not stop us now—nor will its friends in the media stop us now. Very shortly those members will find out by the end of next year what that all means for the early election they will be forced to hold.