King MattMATT KING (National—Northland): Thank you Madam Chair. I'd like to speak on the Supplementary Order Papers (SOPs) in relation generally to the reviews.Hon Member: Ah here we go!MATT KING: Oh they've all popped up now. They were holding their heads in shame before. The same with the Green Party down there contributing nothing to this because they don't have a leg to stand on because they know it's fundamentally wrong. This is a spurious self-serving bit of legislation and it's in need of review. You need to review it and there's no logical argument why you can decline the Supplementary Order Papers regarding having a review—a fresh set of eyes and ears—to look at it because you know it's wrong. Sorry not you know".Kieran McAnulty: You're getting better!MATT KING: The coalition Government know it's wrong and I want to talk about the Hon Andrew Little. It must be particularly galling for him to run this through because I am told he is a man of integrity and it must be particularly galling to have his name on this bill and to have to take it through the House.There's a combination of what I can see from across the House. There are heads down because they're ashamed of this and they're chewing on the rats—and you can see the tails hanging out—or there's some smug indifference for the fact that they know that they just can vote this through the House. We're going through the motions here. We're trying to show the people of New Zealand that this is fundamentally wrong and they're keeping their heads down but they're arrogant because they know they can just vote it through and it's going to become the law. It'll be the election in 2020 when we finally find out what the people of New Zealand think about this: selling their soul to the devil.This review is needed because the only argument that the Hon Andrew Little has put up is that it's to keep the integrity—the proportionality—of representation in Parliament. That is the only argument they're holding up. But in the 2015 by-election that went out the window.I am an elected MP. I have an electorate. I have people that I answer to and I—Hon Dr Nick Smith: Who'd you beat?MATT KING: Nick Smith says "Who did you beat?" Hey look I'm very proud of winning and I was elected by the people of Northland to represent them.Hon Dr Nick Smith: Who did they reject?MATT KING: Ha ha! "Who did they reject?" OK. Across the floor we have a Green Party that's all list MPs and a New Zealand First Party that's all list MPs. They wouldn't know what representing an electorate means. You are elected there by the people and you represent the people of your electorate. And this law is wrong wrong wrong and they know it.Now I know that there's a clause in the New Zealand First constitution—$300000. All of a sudden that $300000 clause—apparently some of them had signed it and now apparently they haven't signed it. Apparently the Privileges Committee came in and now they haven't signed it. Well I want to talk about why the New Zealand First MPs should be very concerned and why they need to sign this Supplementary Order Paper—why they need to vote this in—so there's a review.Take Mark Patterson—I want to finish up what I didn't finish up last night. Mark Patterson is a very nice guy from the Clutha-Southland area. He used to be a National Party branch chair for 15 years—blue blood flowing through him. He didn't make the cut so he went to the dark side and became a New Zealand First candidate and now he's an MP. I would be very worried if I were Mark Patterson. I'd be very worried because you can imagine the scenario: if he'd been seen by his leader Winston Peters talking to me in the Koru lounge—and Winston Peters knows that he used to be a Nat—I would be very worried if I were him. All he has to do is upset his leader and then his leader will kick him out of Parliament.Hon Tim Macindoe: Which party did Mr Peters start in?MATT KING: Ha ha! Yeah. So he used to be a Nat too. Yeah. So there you go. So if I were Mark Patterson I'd be very very concerned and I can't understand why he's supporting this bill. But we know why he's supporting this bill: because his boss is going to have the power to kick him out. And this is what they're doing to stay in power.So I feel sorry for those guys. I feel very sorry for those guys because they have to vote for this bill because their boss has told them to but as soon as they vote for this bill the moment they cross swords with Mr Peters—and a number of MPs of his ilk have crossed swords with him—they are "gone-burger". So this is a terrible bill and I can't understand why you guys are supporting it."