Bennett DavidHon DAVID BENNETT (National—Hamilton East): Thank you Madam Speaker. When this Government was first elected I did a speech around socialism and what socialists tend to do. Unfortunately everything I've said has come true. We are in the midst of a social experiment that hasn't worked: a social experiment of the socialism that the left has brought to this House trying to make everybody equal of those beliefs that there's no competition in this world and that the 60 people on that side of the House who are the intellectual elite of the Labour Party can determine the future of a country without having to let anybody work or do anything. It's like things just happen under their utopia where the Government just decides what to do and can save the world by being helpful kind caring and loving in times when we actually need leadership and we actually need people that do their job.What we've seen from this Government is a Government that has ruined New Zealand. Within two years they have taken this country into deficit and effectively taken this country into negative growth. That is the legacy of the Labour - New Zealand First - Greens Government. And why has that happened? Well we've got a leader that has no detail. It's all just general stuff. You know I can swan around the world and be on a magazine post and that's enough and that's all that you need to do."—don't need to be able to understand economics don't need to be able to actually invest in an economy don't need to be able to do any of those things. Now that's what we've got in the Labour leader.Then the New Zealand First leader—what have we got? Some economic guru that has never made a dollar in his life never been involved in business and yet understands everything that needs to be done knows exactly what needs to be done for the New Zealand economy when the man has lived off the teat of this building for the last 40 years and has never actually done a job. He is actually determining the leadership of this country by defining what the Prime Minister does. Winston Peters is the true economic genius across that side of the House. Don't listen to Grant Robertson. Grant knows what his job is. Grant's job is just to make sure—DEPUTY SPEAKER: Use his full name.Hon DAVID BENNETT: —that his caucus are placid and do nothing behind the scenes. He knows that the number one thing is just keeping that coalition together. That's all it's about. Jacinda's going to be out there—DEPUTY SPEAKER: Would the member use the full names please.Hon DAVID BENNETT: —swanning around the world and Grant Robertson is going to be there just supporting the Winston Peters that is the economic guru that we've all been waiting for.Then there's the Green Party. The Green Party doesn't really care at all. Anything that will enable the Green Party to have a left-wing Government is all they want and the result of that is that this country has been ruined. We have seen that in what has happened in this country.Julie Anne Genter is there and I'll come on to transport soon but we'll just talk about the wider economic base. That's so important because the point of Government in New Zealand is to maintain the security and support of our people going forward. This Government has not done that. They have put us at risk and we are seeing that now with two major effects coming into this economy: the drought and the coronavirus—things that weren't seen in November last year but now are coming into this country. They have been let in by that Government the coronavirus and the drought. Those two things will have an immediate impact on our economic potential and we will be in deficit at this next Budget and we will be in negative economic growth after this next Budget all because of this mismanagement of the current Government. That is all it is because if they had continued on the path that National had done they would have been able to withstand those kind of shocks.We would have been able to continue on as a strong right-wing country. Now if we look at a great example of that it's the Waikato. We'll look at the Waikato as an example. We had our mayors here today all coming down to meet with these leaders these great economic leaders and talk to them and what do they get? Two years in they get a roundabout. That's all we got out of this Government—was a roundabout after two years. That's all that they can give to the population of over 500000 people through that area and what do we get? A roundabout. We don't even get the Provincial Growth Fund because we don't meet the criteria in Hamilton for the Provincial Growth Fund because—[Interruption] Oh no we did. No I am wrong. We got some money for a theatre. That's going to really turn the economy around in the Waikato.But where is the Provincial Growth Fund in Hamilton? Where is the Labour Party in Hamilton? The Labour Party have done one thing in Hamilton—one thing they've done. They've built—or are going to build—a train from Hamilton to Auckland. It's a diesel train—a diesel train—which is actually going to be less environmentally friendly than if you had the cars on the road that are all going to be electric cars in the future. It's got a maximum of 160 people that can go on it and it takes you two hours to get to Papakura. That's a great idea! And what did they cancel? They cancelled a road that has 20000 people going on it a day from Cambridge to Piarere. They cancelled that road. If you talk to the Labour Party they'll say "Oh but it was never funded. That road was never funded." That is incorrect. The Government policy statement (GPS) for the next three years had that road in it. The Labour Party took it out of the GPS which is funded in the Government books. So the Labour Party has deliberately gone out there and cancelled the one project that they could have given to the Waikato and given us nothing of any consequence in return.You may say "Well they don't get any votes out of the Waikato. They don't win any seats there so why would you expect them to look after that area?" Well that may be the case but what it does is show their economic mismanagement. That kind of economic mismanagement has been replicated around the country. If you go to the Hawke's Bay the infrastructure there has not been done. Go to Southland; the infrastructure there has not been done. If you go to the Bay of Plenty the infrastructure there has not been done. Once we get a situation where there is a Government that sits in Wellington and is a pack of people that are academic elite for the Labour Party—Fletcher Tabuteau: You've got two degrees.Hon DAVID BENNETT: —well I'm not a professor—that are sitting there and think they can justify their actions what they do is they make incompetent decisions as we've seen from that side and the result of those incompetent decisions is that we do not have growth in the regions. If there's not growth in the regions there's not growth in New Zealand. So the economic failure New Zealand will face at this election can be sheeted home to that Government and it can be sheeted home to the way that that Government is formed. It is a Government that is formed by a leadership that is all show whether it is the showmanship of our Prime Minister or it's the showmanship of our Deputy Prime Minister. There's no detail there. They do not understand how to make a dollar. They do not understand our regions they do not understand the New Zealand economy and they do not understand the risk that we put New Zealanders in every day in this House if we get it wrong. They have got it wrong and New Zealanders now face the pain of a Labour - Greens - New Zealand First Government—the pain of having poor economic growth the pain of having Budget deficits. That will come through in the next few years and New Zealanders will lose jobs. New Zealanders will pay more for the things they need and New Zealanders' standard of living will all reduce and it cannot be sheeted home to international factors; it is a direct result of the incompetence of the current Government the competence of the management and the incompetence of the personnel that lead the New Zealand First and Labour parties.DEPUTY SPEAKER: I call the Hon Jenny Salesa and before I do can I just remind members they use the full name—use the full name even when you interject."