Peters Winston: General Debate 
Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume 
Peters Winston: General Debate 
[Sitting date: 09 May 2012. Volume:679;Page:2092. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.] 
Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS (Leader—NZ First) 
: 
 New Zealand First has got news for Sam Lotu-Iiga and his nervous backbench mates and it is all bad. The end is nigh. Let me tell you he might talk about Maungakiekie like that but if he went back to his electorate properly and asked them out there in particularly the Samoan community the Pacific Island community and the Maori community who live within his electorate then the news for him is really bad. It just demonstrates the old mantra of Nazi Germany: “If you want to tell a lie make it the biggest one possible and you have got more chance of it being believed”. 
Look this Government is not going to survive 3 years. It will not make it until the next election and this is why. It is totally dysfunctional—totally dislocated. I will give you an example. Yesterday the Minister for Social Development—who as Sam Lotu-Iiga said is not here to defend any longer and I understand why and that is because she has cut and run—announced a policy and her key coalition partner the Maori Party and the Associate Minister for Social Development Tariana Turia immediately attacked it took it to pieces and said: “From me and my colleagues in the Maori Party on this issue the answer is no.” That means that they are not going to vote for the Budget surely in a few days’ time. You cannot say no to the media—you cannot go and say that Sam Lotu-Iiga is talking drivel—and then walk into the same hall and vote with the Government. It is that simple. 
The Maori Party wants the taxpayers to fund some iwi breeding programme. That is what Tariana Turia said. She said “… it’s insulting to tell anybody about how many tamariki”—that is children—“they should have.” Mr Lotu-Iiga you and your colleagues what do you think of that statement? Because this is the party you are hugging whilst you are making dramatic mistakes. He wants to talk about jobs. Last week in Dunedin there came a supermarket that wanted new workers. It advertised for 100 workers. How many applied? Thirteen hundred most of whom would be beneficiaries. Your Minister—sorry the Minister said— 
Mr SPEAKER 
: It is the third time. 
Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS 
:—that there is all this work available. Well I am saying that is demonstrable nonsense. There is not work available and those 1300 people 1200 of whom missed out on a job are evidence of that. 
Then you have got this: the foreshore and seabed. Yesterday it was announced that there were 24 claims and at Motiti off the coast of the Bay of Plenty—three hapu a small island—all three claims are for the same foreshore and seabed. Now who told this country that there was a disaster coming? There is nothing as antiseptic or sterile as the phrase “I told you so” but we did. And those members decided to ignore it. You see National which campaigned on the slogan “Kiwi not iwi” is now for iwi and no Kiwi—now it is for iwi and no Kiwi. So here we come the Maori Party was on TV last night attacking Mr Finlayson the Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations and saying: “No no all these claimants are right.” I tell you the National Government is not going to make it through to 2014. It is so dysfunctional and one more hiccup and it is goodnight nurse—or in this case boys. 
You see you go from the Maori Party which says one thing in the House and different things on the marae and it will be called to account shortly on the Budget debate. But then you have got the ACT Party. If you go from the Maori Party to the ACT Party it is not a pretty sight. It is not a pretty sight. The leader of the ACT Party has the worst case of amnesia in the history of this Parliament. He cannot remember helicopter rides cannot remember being hugged by a big bear of a man cannot remember anonymous donations—45 of them—and cannot remember banquets. And what does the Prime Minister say? He said: “Well I asked him whether he broke the law and he said no and I accept him.” I asked: “Did you break the law John?” and he said: “No and I accept that.” 
Mr SPEAKER 
: Order! 
Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS 
: I ask you this question: how can John Key be judge and jury in his own case? Well it is a humbug. The cup of tea in Epsom was not a good idea. I reckon the holiday home in Hawaii and the knighthood he will give himself is looking pretty good but I tell you who the most dysfunctional person is right now. It is the Prime Minister who was all things to all men but he is just “Mr Spray and Walk Away”.