Peters Winston: General DebateText is incorporated into the Bound VolumePeters Winston: General Debate[Sitting date: 20 May 2015. Volume:705;Page:3466. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS (Leader—NZ First): Tomorrow on Budget day New Zealand is going to witness yet again a further fanfare of fiction fantasy and fatalism seasoned by arrogance and smugness. The fiction again will be the surplus the fantasy again will be the rock star economy and the fatalism again will be the inevitable decline of our provinces under a Government obsessed with Auckland and massive immigration.Back in 2008 this bright young thing Mr Key said that the next 10 years to 2018 must be—let me rephrase the words he said—“a decade of maximised opportunities”. We were going to be aspirational because we were being led by somebody who was the product of an American company called Merrill Lynch. You do not hear much about Merrill Lynch these days do you? It was the fifth company to go belly up in the Wall Street - generated financial crisis of greed and fraud and then it was bailed out by the American taxpayers. That is his background. There is not one fundamental political principle—just do a deal and move on. Or like that famous ad just “spray and walk away”. I tell you what it is running thin. The man has lost his mojo.In fact he turned up up north and he was on 500 hoardings—500 hoardings—with the slogan of all slogans: “Working for Northland”. Up there the people took one good hard look—the farmers all the old supporters of National—and they said like the Tui ad: “Yeah right! Where?”. There were the 72000 jobs from the organiser of the campaign Steven Joyce the “Mr Fix-it”. They said: “So there’s 72000 up here in the north and you have created 172000 in the country. That is a lot for Northland is it not when all the other electorates share all the rest?”. Then they kind of talk to people like Mr Bishop who was up there and my friend Alfred Ngaro and Mark Mitchell. What a sad case it was. It was so sad that I began feeling sorry for them; I really did. We knew and we said it 3 weeks out from the election that they were going to see a seismic shift. People in the provinces are not going to take that bulldust any more. They want some action. They want to see things happening.You know here we have got a two-tiered economy: Auckland versus provincial neglect. As for the member for Christchurch Central the only reason why her province is surviving is because of an accident or disaster. If it was not for that Christchurch would be screaming at the bottom like the rest of New Zealand. Manufacturing is declining against GDP. Exporting is declining against GDP. The Government debt is up to nearly $70 billion over seven times the Government debt of 2008. That which should be up in New Zealand is down—manufacturing exporting. That which is down—that means productive exporting the productive part of the economy and debt—is up. In fact it is upside down with the National Party. The people up north got the message.Around the country from Invercargill to Ōāmaru Timaru the Hawke’s Bay Gisborne and Wanganui we are going to take our message. There is one party that understands the provinces and their economic background. What we understand more than anybody else is this: it is you in the provinces who create this country’s real wealth. So why are you down at the bottom of the income stream? We are going to set things right. We are going to go and tell them that they will not get a change in the economic settings until they change their priority when voting and go out and vote for a party that knows where all the hard work and manual work is. Half of the National Party—you can tell by the look of them this new breed that came in—thinks that manual labour is the Prime Minister of Mexico. They have never done any physical work and it shows in their attitude.Mr Bishop has never done any physical work in his life; we know it. He gets up there to Ruawai or up there to Dargaville and the people there do not know what they are talking to. They say that this man cannot be from the party of Holyoake. He cannot be from the party of Marshall and McKay and all those famous National Party guys and women who did understand the nation and the condition of the provinces. Back then people rightly voted for National but not anymore. Up north they got the message. They are getting it in Whangarei right now. When the head of the ANZ bank turned up and said: “This is zombie town.” what did Mr Reti say? Did he say it was an outrage? No he agreed. They have got a zombie member. But no longer.Thank you Mr Speaker. I would like to go on. Can I move a motion that I speak for a bit longer? This is a very important speech.