Peters Winston: General DebateText is incorporated into the Bound VolumePeters Winston: General Debate[Sitting date: 25 May 2016. Volume:714;Page:11260. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS (Leader—NZ First): Using the Mary Poppins theme that speech was meant to be supercalifragilisticexpialidocious but the sound of it was really quite atrocious. To use the Rolling Stones theme it was enough to make a grown man cry. This is meant to be Wednesday’s backbenchers’ debate but National led off with three of its Cabinet Ministers—all from where? Auckland. Why? Because Auckland is in crisis. As for the cling-ons in the ACT Party the Māori Party and the United Future Party they did not want to hear the debate—not at all.Tomorrow what you will see from the Budget will be like a smattering of snow on the Southern Alps. It will appear to be good it will appear to have substance but when it is subjected to some sunlight it is going to evaporate away. It is quite sad to be in this House to see the backbench in the National Government shut out dejected into despair watching these polls and knowing that their obituaries have been written for them. They know that.This Budget will lack substance. It will be full of spin and well-managed public relations on a plethora of statistics as a misconception that all in New Zealand is well. We all know that this country is cowering at the feet of foreigners these days. We know that China sets the tune and National dances. In the Budget tomorrow National will ignore the regions and the provinces. It will be obsessed with the nightmare it has created in every areain Auckland. Roading rail houses hospitals schools—everything is under stress in Auckland.National is panicking at last and the backbench knows it is too late. Out in the provinces which National represents there will be no money. There will be a dog-whistle. It might even announce a motorway all the way to Whangarei but it has not yet put in 1 metre of the Pūhoi to Warkworth highway—not 1 metre after 8 long years which is the time that Mr Mitchell has been here. This begs the question: Mr Mitchell when are you going to stand up for Northland?The Budget will ignore the fact that a foreign corporate like Facebook for example pays a lousy $42000 a year tax—$42000 a year tax for that massive international corporate—and Tegel pays 0.38 percent. Not 1 percent—no 0.38 percent. Ladies and gentlemen I want to ask this question: will it stop a tsunami of money flooding out of New Zealand? Will it stop foreign corporates taking our water to make millions of dollars in profits? Will it stop this country being a tax haven for the mega-wealthy—a tax haven for money-launderers and criminals putting our nation’s reputation at risk? No.Will it stop our society becoming more fragmented more dislocated and the gap between the rich and poor becoming an even greater chasm? Will it stop middle New Zealand suffering to an extent we have not seen in generations? And on the question of law and order will it have more police so that at least three out of 10 burglaries—not just one—get an investigation when nine do not? Will it do anything for the thousands now living rough in New Zealand on streets in parks in cars—not as a lifestyle choice but because John Key’s Government can offer them nothing? Will it do that? No.I want to say very clearly that after 8 long years this country wants a vision from the National Government tomorrow. We have waited long enough. The Government has said enough. Crikey it has cut down more forests to print its propaganda than for building homes in this country. It has cut down more forests to put out its propaganda than for building homes in its own country. The public has had a gutsful of wishful thinking overoptimistic forecasts and this man who always says that he is aspirational—“Mr Spray and Walk Away”. You have had 2 days of classic examples: he makes a statement and he gets asked “Did you say that?” and he says “No.” It is his quote. [Interruption] Do I have a minute to go?Mr SPEAKER: No a lot less than that—14 seconds.Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS: Fourteen seconds? Well in my closing 14 seconds I want to say this: every Budget should contain facts that are counted against the numbers that they apply to. This Budget will not. Last of all let me say this: the so-called rock star economy is now well and truly a snowflake melting away before our very eyes. The great news for New Zealanders out there though from the meetings we have had in places like Pukekohe—