Mark RonRON MARK (Deputy Leader—NZ First): Well you know it is one of those days where you have a speech that you have to deliver but then people stand up on that side of the House and they say things and you cannot let them get away with it.So to Minister Nathan Guy I have got a couple of comments to make. Mr Nathan Guy it is so lovely to think that you came back from Mystery Creek feeling that the entire farming community is happy with this Government. Let me assure you: dozens and dozens of people came to the New Zealand First stand and said these words: I used to vote National. All my life I my father my parents voted National but you have got our votes this time round. We've had enough." And Mr Tim Macindoe knows because he was getting it in the ear all the time that he was there albeit he turned up looking like a suit from Auckland but never mind.The farming community Mr Guy has had enough of your incompetencies. You know we have got myrtle rust. Talk to us about how horticulture is going to take you forward and yet you have left the door open and allowed myrtle rust to come in which will wipe out the honey industry—mānuka kānuka pōhutukawa kauri. And let us not even talk about kauri dieback which his famous ministry is not dealing with. And let us not even talk about pea weevil velvetleaf or the other dozens—there will be more. Mr Macindoe says that his party will be known in history as the infrastructure party—wrong. This Government will be known as the Government that had more bio-protection breaches in history than any other Government in history and for the incompetence in the way in which it is dealing with it.But I digress. What we have seen play out in the last 24 hours has yes been focused on the hapless Todd Barclay the young junior backbencher whom New Zealand First has been hearing the stories about for well over 12 months and has been the benefactor as many of his members resigned from his committee and joined the New Zealand First committee. In fact our new candidate Mark Patterson is from that very committee. So we have known about this stuff.The other person who knew about it was the Prime Minister and it does not cut any ice around here to have the Prime Minister flatly give false answers to the media yesterday and come into the House and try to retract his misstatements—it does not cut any ice. The fact of the matter is the Prime Minister knew that a complaint had been laid with the police. The Prime Minister knew that there had been a breach of the law. The Prime Minister knew that the police were investigating. The Prime Minister knew that Mr Barclay was refusing to cooperate and the Prime Minister knew long term down the line that this was going to reflect on his party but he had hoped that it would all go away—that the hush money that was paid up would make it all go away.What the Prime Minister has sadly demonstrated to New Zealand—but actually gratefully at this point in time in the electoral cycle—is that he is not fit to lead this country. Mr English is not fit to lead. What Mr English needs to understand is that to lead New Zealand he must enjoy the trust of the people the confidence of the people. He must be reliable. He must exercise good judgment. He must be consistent. He must be courageous. He must be unwavering in the standards that he sets and he must demonstrate those standards to a far higher level than which he demands.On that point he failed. He must be impartial. One would have asked or suggested that a woman who had been in his employment for 17 years whom he trusted implicitly and whom he knew absolutely would not be telling lies. If he was to make a judgement call if he was a leader who exercised wisdom he would have deferred to that woman that staff member who had served him so loyally so faithfully during the highs and the lows of his career. When he was being investigated himself for double-dipping when he lost an election in 2002 with a record devastating loss for the National Party—if he had the wisdom if he had the loyalty if he had the courage he would have deferred to her view sat down and listened. He would have taken Mr Barclay outside—all the way outside out into the ether out of the National Government caucus—but he did not. He chose to defend him to protect him and to even go so far as to lie. This is a disgraceful affair that has unravelled in front of the public but it is timely that it happened now and for that we take some small amount of gratitude."