Little Andrew: General DebateText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeLittle Andrew: General Debate[Sitting date: 26 November 2014. Volume:702;Page:845. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]ANDREW LITTLE (Leader of the Opposition):I move That the House take note of miscellaneous business. Well we are at a very interesting time in our political history. Prime Minister John Key is desperate to secure his legacy. He has got only 3 years to do it and he knows he has got only 3 years. He tried in his first 3 years. He had natural disasters and he had disasters of other people’s making to preside over and he got through it and some say he did reasonably well.Hon Simon Bridges: You’ve got less time to deal with your legacy.ANDREW LITTLE: Then in the last term—Mr Bridges—he wanted to grow the economy and produce a surplus. Well that has gone and so now we are up to the next phase. He has tried changing the flag at a cost of $27 million—but nobody wants it—but now we know what the legacy is. Now we know what John Key’s legacy to New Zealand is. It is the sleaziest grubbiest filthiest dirtiest smear machine in the history of New Zealand politics and every New Zealander knows it. Every Government member knows it which is why those members look down. They lower their heads in shame because they are embarrassed to be part of the John Key Government. It has reached its nadir. It has reached the bottom of the pits and they all know it.We now have a Government that has mastered the art of manipulating the Official Information Act request using prime ministerial staff—not the junior staff but the senior staff; oh the senior staff as this is serious stuff—and the “black ops” operator Jason “Two Doors Down” Ede is doing his job. He is doing his job of ringing up the bloggers manipulating the Official Information Act and getting the attack lines out. That is John Key’s legacy. That is John Key’s legacy to New Zealand politics and here is the pity of it. You see they know no bounds. When you have got no ethics—when you have been a money trader you do not have to have ethics because it is the deal that counts. It is the deal that counts. And when you turn a money trader into a Prime Minister there is only one thing that matters. It is the deal that counts—getting the outcome.So what has he done this time? What he has done this time is an Official Information Act request not about finance or about the Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment but about our security agencies. It is about our security agencies which have huge powers: powers of intrusion powers of invasion powers to break our privacy rights. Oh yes there are no limits. There are no bounds when it comes to doing the deal and getting the outcome when you are a trader.So what does he do? He sets up his senior office staff and his “black ops” operator Jason “Two Doors Down” Ede and says: “Just manipulate it. Hold it up. Share the national security secrets. It doesn’t matter.”—and that is what he has done—“Use your private email accounts.” If it is good enough for Judith Collins it is good enough for John Key’s office too because that is the way they operate—that is the way they operate. Now we have in 1 day—1 day—two reports from independent agencies telling us just how this Government operates and just how low it goes.We have the Prime Minister’s office and Judith Collins’ office and who is the common rogue amongst them all? Cameron Slater—Cameron Slater. A great friend of Judith Collins; not such a great friend of John Key but enough to ring him up on a daily basis. And they know exactly what they are doing. They are using prime ministerial staff to carefully draft the Official Information Act request for Cameron Slater—using the taxpayer-funded prime ministerial staff to draft the blogs for Cameron Slater’s blog.Hon Amy Adams: Phil Goff just broke the law.ANDREW LITTLE: Where are the limits? Where are the limits Amy Adams? Where are the limits Amy Adams? There are none.You want the top job Amy. You want the top job Amy; we know it. Where are your bottom lines? Where are your ethical limits? It is all over for Steven Joyce. Simon Bridges—he was a lawyer once. He knows about ethics. Where are the ethics? Who in the National Government is going to stand up and say: “Prime Minister John Key we want to have some ethics. We want to have integrity in this Government. Please Mr Key—please Mr Key—let your legacy be honest Government. Let it be honest Government for the last remaining 3 years you’ve got in office. Please let it be honest Government.”?That is not what we have got now. That is what New Zealanders want. They want something better. They want a better Government. They want a better Prime Minister and in 3 years’ time they are going to get that. They will get a Government that operates by principles of honesty of ethics and of integrity. They do not have that now.This is a bad time for New Zealand. There is one thing this Government must do: stand up and say sorry. Stand up and say: “Sorry we didn’t mean it. It was wrong and we will do better for the next 3 years before we hand it over.”