Hutchison Paul: General DebateText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeHutchison Paul: General Debate[Sitting date: 18 September 2013. Volume:693;Page:13474. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]Dr PAUL HUTCHISON (National—Hunua): What an extraordinary start for so-called team Cunliffe: 11 votes in support out of 34 from his caucus. That is less than 33 percent—less than 33 percent. In our two leading paper editorials from theNew Zealand Herald we had“ ‘Peace’ is clearly not breaking out as Mr Cunliffe predicted on Monday.” and theDominion Post said that Team Cunliffe shows “signs some of his crew are thinking about abandoning ship.”What a contrast. Over the last few weeks we have seen Dean Barker and his crew on Emirates Team New Zealand show a magnificent lead and wonderful teamwork Kiwis have revelled in the great win by the All Blacks over South Africa—29-15 extraordinary teamwork—and of course under the superb leadership ofTanaUmaga Counties Manukau or the Steelers have for the first time in the history of the world won the Ranfurly Shield. This Saturday when they meet Waikato every man woman and child potato carrot and onion in Pukekohe will be rooting for them. What fantastic community cohesion.So the spoiler in all this has been the circus of the three self-styled stooges David Cunliffe Grant Robertson and Shane Jones proselytising their wares up and down the length and breadth of New Zealand and out-promising each other. For the ordinary Kiwi it has been like being incessantly irritated by mutant ninja mosquitoes and not having enough powerful repellent to get rid of them. I have heard reports that the irritating sound alone has resulted in a serious syndrome known as “Labour Leader Election Fever Torment”—acronym “LLEFT”. Thank goodness it is over. But of course the nightmare scenario is that it all could happen again very soon. I am told that a full bite from one of these three results in the victim’s systematic bloodyexsanguination. There is blood everywhere and there is no evidence that it is going away.But MrCunliffe’s ultimate cunning plan however is to lurch the Labour Party so far to the left that he and his surprise deputy leader David Parker will morph with their Green comrades into “Russel Cunliffe” “David Norman” and “Metiria Parker Turei”—a frightening political mutation unable to be put down by any toxic substance known to man. As I hear from constituents up and down the country it means putting the straitjacket of unions on enterprise and productivity. It means a capital gains tax with a very imperfect inefficient design. It means profligate spending at a time when New Zealand is just coming out of a world recession.The trouble is that it gets worse and worse. One of MrCunliffe’s many promises included senior appointments for Grant Robertson and Shane Jones. Well Grant Robertson is not deputy leader any more and will Shane Jones be allowed to regulate the price in supermarkets as he promised on the hustings? I can tell you that every producer in Pukekohe had a deep shiver rattling round their spines with that thought.But the ever humble Mr Cunliffe is apparently sorting it all out—all the promises all the dissenting. He can see that if he cannot unite his caucus he must mutate with the Greens bring in Winston Peters to assist in showing him how to get in front of a mirror and distinguish the difference between “caucus” and “Chorus”. Mr Cunliffe has 70 percent of the union vote the caucus will chorus agreement the unions will chorus agreement and the Greens will chorus agreement. Team Cunliffe will leave the stationunited because the dissenters will have jumped in front of the train. They could not bear the nightmare. The deceased cannot chorus disagreement. Meanwhile the John Key National Government will get on with running the country and growing the economy.