Peters WinstonRt Hon WINSTON PETERS (Leader—NZ First): A week ago today I was honoured to speak in wine-growing territory in Marlborough to its chamber of commerce. In a speech entitled The Grapes of Wrath" I predicted what so many experts did not.Hon Members: Oh!Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS: That was—not after the event but beforehand—who would win and who would become the 45th President of the United States. And that cacophony of embarrassment is not going to deter us today. Like so many other speeches we have made on matters so important to this country the media and the experts and the pollsters and this House as well—that side of course—decided to ignore it and that is why they were shocked by the outcome yesterday. It was all foreseeable all predictable and all forecast. But no—these people who think they have got the prescience of mind to understand and run a country sit there in their snobby sniggery way today and think that that is an excuse for their presence here. There are too many people in politics and experts who give their subjective judgment laced with their personal preference who think that that passes for professional comment. Well it does not and you are letting your country down. Everyone is entitled to their personal view on either Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump but politicians are meant to have some understanding of the environment in which they operate and the consequences of what they say both here and abroad. This contest was never about the Democratic or the Republican parties. It was about those old parties being captured by big vested interests and controlling Washington—and the American people knew it. Seventy-two percent across the divide did not trust what was going on. That is why Bernie Sanders won 22 states in the contest with Clinton. That is why Donald Trump an utter outsider beat off 16 insiders for the nomination. It is not difficult to perceive what was going to happen. This was about the laid-off auto workers in Grand Rapids Michigan—the ones who have seen their jobs moved to Mexico. It was about the workers in Arizona who lost their jobs when the parts they once supplied to Apple were no longer needed. It was about the workers in Circleville Ohio as General Electric closes a factory there. They flocked to hear Governor Mike Pence now Vice-President-Elect tell them why they should be in work and not looking for a job.Does that sound familiar? These people are not the deplorables but are honest hard-working middle-America. They are real people. They are not uneducated; they are smart and they are motivated by promises that have turned to ashes in their mouths. It is not unique to the United States. They are people who expected the American Dream instead of a minimum-wage job packing shelves at Walmart. Like the Brexit campaign in the UK you can pull out all your smart alec experts and you did; every huge-salaried banker and you did; every defender of the indefensible in terms of the economic and social malaise confronting ordinary people and you did; but why would the ordinary person listen to these apologists for elitism?David Bennett: Why are we having this commentary?Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS: Why the man who is actually retired Mr Bennett—who is retiring—has not even got a party decent enough to thank him for being an absolute wet blanket all the time in the House. Mr Bennett what are they going to do without you? Why would the ordinary people listen to politicians who defend the appalling concentration of wealth in the hands of the few at the expense of the many? The US election repudiated the Trans-Pacific Partnership. New Zealand First will say what we told you on 4 February this year: we told you so. There is nothing so antiseptic as the statement "We told you so." but we darn well did. Instead of Nick Smith and John Key and "Mr Fixit"—"Mr Novopay"—and every ace amateur over there saying they might have something no they carried on regardless at a cost of $5.5 million now and there is a bill on the Order Paper today. How do you like that eh? [Interruption] None. They are blinded to reality sitting there about to go of course and go they will because they are part of the process. There was an opportunity cost you see associated with the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement which has been diverted away from real free-trade agreements.At the beginning of this year we predicted that on 23 June the Brexit campaign would be victorious in the UK. Mr Key of course and all his experts in the National Party said they were supporting Mr Cameron—supporting the Remain side. You know the campaign was hardly over and what happened? Mr Key said: "Oh we're going to the UK to get a free-trade deal." This guy has got no shame and he has got no principles and he has got no ability either. This man from Merrill Lynch has been exposed for what his is. He forgets what he said in the last hour and all of a sudden he is going to ring up Donald Trump. He has been dumping all over Donald Trump—dumping all over Donald Trump—and so have others in this House.My message to members of Parliament in this House is that this is about the American people. It is not about the President. It is about the American people and we need to continue our relationship that some of us worked hard to build up. But no no the banality the arrogance of these people knows no bounds.Hon Member: Thank you Winston.Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS: And up they got—oh no no do not call me Winston. You call me collect.I want to say something: last year there was a by-election in Northland. What happened there happened in the UK. What happened in the UK saw a hung Parliament in Australia when Turnbull called a snap election and dissolved both Houses. What happened in Northland happened in the hamlets in the villages in the towns and in the clothes factories of America yesterday—all so foreseeable.I look around at some of the faces here today sneering and scoffing and I want ordinary New Zealand workers out there to know one thing: these people are staring at you. They are staring at your dreams and hopes. They are so up themselves; they are so arrogant that they think any decent sentiment about housing health education and First World jobs is not worthy. No no—they would rather have their own ephemeral high-blown concepts and ideas prevail and to hell with the working people of this country. All the small businesses all the medium-sized businesses are hard up against it now in a Government that has got no plan.I have got 2 minutes to go and just want to say this: from Kaitāia in New Zealand's Far North to Lerwick in the UK's Shetland Islands and to New Orleans in Louisiana the elitist neo-liberal Mammonic curtain is collapsing around the globe. And it is coming to a place near you because that is what this Government represents. The people who were most fearful yesterday all around the country were those small handful of highly wealthy foreign-owned—in the main—people who support the National Party. [Interruption] What do you want boy?Mr SPEAKER: Order! Apologise to the member.David Seymour: I raise a point of order Mr Speaker. The member has now been speaking for over 8½ minutes and he has used a range of devices to avoid taking a position on the motion—Mr SPEAKER: Order! That is not a point of order. The member has a 10-minute slot. He can use it.Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS: Not bad for somebody who sits there because he is a political puppet. He got put in by the National Party. He got an office with the National Party. He got elevated by the National Party. He does not make 1 percent. The media give him an enormous amount of coverage. He just has to cough and they publish him. And he is going out of this Parliament so fast his little feet will not touch the ground. This revolution is the middle class and the worker revolution. People who work hard pay their taxes and just want a fair go. We have three words for these people as in America as in the UK but now in New Zealand. One party uniquely has these three words: we hear you."