Peters Winston: General Debates 
Peters Winston: General Debates 
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Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS (Leader—NZ First) 
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 Does anybody know who this person is on this Labour credit card? I have been here a long time and I have never seen that person in my life. This week New Zealand First distributed a pamphlet on immigration and it has probably had the greatest success of any political tract since the Great Depression. I want to thank the great publicity from some Government stooges and an Auckland postman for the fact that New Zealanders are finally learning the facts about this Government’s disastrous immigration policies. We have been swamped this week with responses and I am sure that Labour wants to hear some of them. These are from immigrants. One of them states: “Brilliant New Zealand First. You will be getting my vote along with at least 50 of my group which feel the same way.” Another immigrant writes: “I am an older New Zealander and it has been many years since I have voted but I am aghast at our situation in all respects. Great brochure.” A further one this one from a Chinese gentleman states: “I found your leaflet a breath of fresh air”— 
Hon Damien O'Connor 
: Just three? 
Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS 
: No these are just at random. One wrote: “We need more people to speak out” and another one wrote: “Thanks New Zealand First for highlighting the problem with immigration”. A further person wrote: “Thank you for having the guts to stand up and say what most of us working taxpayer Kiwis are thinking. New Zealand with the blessing of Helen Clark is becoming the dumping ground for the world’s unwanted. I am sick of struggling to make ends meet and it makes me feel really mad when I have to pay health insurance to be sure I get treatment when I need it when my tax money is paying for non - New Zealanders to go on dialysis treatment and the like.” Another immigrant writes: “Immigration policy needs a severe audit. If we keep piling Third World immigrants”—his words not mine—“we will end up in a Third World country. It is no use bringing in uneducated and unskilled workers. Every new immigrant”—says this new immigrant—“must have a job offer before coming here and should be monitored by immigration officials. They must contribute to the economy before getting Government support.” The writer of that letter one more immigrant himself understands immigration issues better than the entire Labour caucus. This must be the most stupid Labour caucus in New Zealand’s political history. It brings in hundreds of thousands of immigrants and cannot give us the statistics. 
Day after day the Minister of Immigration has become New Zealand’s biggest political embarrassment. Day after day she cannot answer nor can Steve Maharey nor can the Prime Minister. They bring in hundreds of thousands of people then bleat about the collapse of the Auckland transport system. They bleat about the health education and welfare system costs. If people are sitting on a motorway in Auckland tonight with the traffic in gridlock for sure I want to tell them why that is. They are there because amongst other things 40000 people per year have been placed in Auckland from abroad. Forget about domestic immigration those people are coming from abroad and the Government claims to have some solution to Auckland’s structural problems. What a joke! Mr Maharey is prepared to spend $3500 on each unemployed migrant in Auckland to help that migrant get a job. What are those migrants doing here? How do they get here? What is going on? When did these Labour Party people last spend one cent to help a New Zealander get a job in the far north or in the provincial towns where gangs are killing each other? This Labour administration is arrogant distant gullible and downright incompetent over immigration. It is guilty of the most breathtaking cant and deceit and thanks to this pamphlet New Zealand is going to find out about it. [ 
Interruption 
] David Benson-Pope the walrus over there can shout all he likes. But I am telling him this: our correspondence our emails and our telephones are going off the wall and so is talkback and no amount of spineless intimidation is going to stop us. Everything we wrote in this pamphlet comes out of the briefing paper of the Minister herself. It is all from her own evidence. [ 
Interruption 
] Mr Benson-Pope can shout and scream but he is a total waste of space and in 2005 we are going to make sure that he and his Benedict Arnold clique are gone.