Peters Winston: Adjournment — Sittings of the House 
Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume 
Peters Winston: Adjournment — Sittings of the House 
[Sitting date: 12 December 2012. Volume:686;Page:7475. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.] 
Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS (Leader—NZ First) 
: 
 It is a great pity that “Ronald McDonald” is no longer in the House because he could have learnt something from this speech— 
Maggie Barry 
: I raise a point of order Mr Speaker. I thought it was a tradition of this House that the absence of a member should not be referred to by another member. 
Mr DEPUTY SPEAKER 
: Well that is a valid point but no member of the House was named which brings me to another point that we should address members by their appropriate name. Let us all just take a deep breath and the Rt Hon Winston Peters will start again. 
Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS 
: It is a great pity that since she has been here Maggie Barry has learnt absolutely nothing at all. The easiest way to catch her out is just to say something and like a wanton shark come to summer beaches out goes her tongue and bang that is it. She bites it every time. 
On behalf of New Zealand First we want to thank all of the people whose commitment integrity and professionalism ensure that Parliament runs in a smooth way: everyone in the Speaker’s office the Clerk’s Office the Hansard reporters all the library staff and the telephonists. I acknowledge especially all the messengers and their cheerful manner around this precinct. We thank also the security guards for their hard work in keeping us all safe and the cleaners who deserve a special thanks—and a pay rise. They like so many others are not getting a fair go. Imagine how difficult it is to clean up after these people. It cannot be an easy job. They deserve a much better pay round and remuneration than they are getting. If we have forgotten anybody our apologies. 
We appreciate all who enable us to operate as an effective political party and an effective political party we are. The support and dedication of our staff have made this year for New Zealand First a successful one. We have been effective. We have been firm in opposition. We have been constructive. We have tried to help those in need such as the elderly and the young and even farmers who are being robbed blind by the banks with swaps deals in this country— 
Hon John Banks 
: What about grandma’s money? 
Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS 
: —and all manner of people in particular. And our grandchildren—that is true. We have opposed the massive cuts in all sorts of departments made for no sound reason and worst of all the disastrous treatment of our No. 1 agency abroad the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. It has been a disgrace an abysmal disgrace—hundreds of millions of dollars lost. Our representation overseas is second rate nowadays. We have become an international joke and the Government wants to say that it is doing something for this country! 
Hon John Banks 
: You’re losing it. You’re losing it. 
Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS 
: I know why Mr Banks is laughing. It is because he has never been held to account. This is the man who is laughing over there who told Parliament and told the country that the police’s secret report was secret because the police requested that. That is demonstrably and palpably not true. Mr Banks is it or is it not true that you requested the secrecy? 
Hon John Banks 
: I raise a point of order Mr Speaker. I hear the honourable member saying “you this” “you that” and “you did this”. I do not know what you have done Mr Deputy Speaker but I am sure you have not done what he says you have done. 
Mr DEPUTY SPEAKER 
: Technically the member is correct and that point of order is upheld. Members should be just a little more careful about pronouns. 
Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS 
: Mr Banks this is the question: did Mr Banks request that the police report be secret? Yes or no? [ 
Interruption 
] I cannot hear him. Yes or no? 
Hon John Banks 
: Where’s the money? Where’s grandma’s money? 
Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS 
: Yes or no? When we had a question about grandma’s money—unlike his leader and unlike him—we dealt to it. We dealt to it. We did not stand around making accusations. Remember Mr Horan’s mother made the allegations in the codicil; we did not make them. We acted. And here is Mr Banks who forgot 42 cheques and a man who is unforgettable a man whose place he went to on a helicopter whose wife he said was the most beautiful woman he had ever met and then he said he did not remember him. Mr Banks was it Mr Banks who requested the police secrecy? Yes or no? 
Hon John Banks 
: What about natural justice? 
Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS 
: Yes or no? Look the last thing Mr Horan needs is natural justice. I tell you when he gets it—[ 
Interruption 
] No no hold your tongue. Hold your tongue lad. Do not get carried away. When he gets it he will find that it is the last thing he wants. We are totally confident of our actions. Is Mr Key confident of his? No. He does not want to see the report. He does not even want to ask Mr Banks a question. He does not even want to examine what he has been saying. Mr Banks as a Minister what was told to the Prime Minister by the leader of the ACT Party was not true was it? 
Hon John Banks 
: Grandma got run over by a reindeer. 
Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS 
: Oh there you are. There you are. He will not answer the question. Look I would have thought even at Christmas-time the member could be more overt more open. No no no he hides behind parliamentary secrecy and a useless incompetent and non-transparent leader “Mr Spray and Walk Away”. 
The other thing we did this year was to get up a Reserve Bank bill that almost got passed and we thank those parties that helped us. It would have helped New Zealand not the paper-shuffling speculators that Mr Banks and others in the National Party love—you know the internationalists sitting over there in New York playing against our currency at 35:1. We would have stopped those people but no no the men who call themselves the nationalists in the National Party—no no—would rather be globalists and forget their people. The wonderful news I must say is that every day now we are getting phone calls and letters from former National Party people who have had a gutsful of them. 
Hon John Banks 
: Name one. 
Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS 
: I could name hundreds—I could name hundreds. We are getting all sorts of calls because they know that the sell-out has been going on for far too long. 
 I want to make something very clear to our supporters out there to whom we wish a very happy Christmas as well. To every New Zealand First supporter and worker and to all those legion who are thinking of joining us let me say this: the next election is not going to be in 2014. It is coming much sooner than that. So have a good holiday have a good Christmas but before the one after this Christmas there will be an election. Mr Banks cannot hang on now. He cannot hang on the moment he gets exposed in court—goodnight nurse. Goodnight nurse. There goes the ACT Party—no replacements no replacements. 
I want to say that we also were lucky last week. We drew two bills from the ballot that symbolise our ideals and policies. One will help children; the other will target criminals who commit crime in the presence of a child. 
So what has happened with the economy? Emigration from New Zealand is our shame. Immigration into New Zealand is a shambles. Unemployment is rising. The economy is reeling and staggering. Indebtedness is soaring. Incompetence and bungling is that Government’s abysmal record—Dotcom and Banks scandal after scandal after scandal—and very soon it will be goodnight nurse and not too soon. 
What is those members’ greatest pride at the end of the year? They are going to get—if the court does not stop them—to sell the country’s heritage. It is the asset sales. “Mr Spray and giggling like a schoolgirl Walk Away”—Mr Key giggling like a schoolgirl—thinks that that is a great accomplishment. “We’re going to sell the birthright.” he said. 
Anyway let me just say this here. This is where he should give in because the National Party used to always go on about the nanny State but this is how bad things are. I have heard there are dreadful reports coming into my office about the treatment of Santa Claus also known as Father Christmas at North City Plaza in Porirua. On the evening of 5 December it was noticed that Mr Claus or Santa as we know him was thin and the cheeks of his face were pale. Mr Claus revealed to my office that the health authorities warned that they would no longer tolerate employing a Santa Claus who was obese with high blood pressure. He has been forced to starve himself for months and take medication for high blood pressure and he can hardly barely go “Ho ho!” let alone “Ho ho ho!”. That is the kind of state that these little—I cannot say the word of course but they were in Germany in 1935. That is the kind of country we have come to and there is worse to come. 
It has been revealed that the “Ministry of Sexual Equality” has warned it will no longer tolerate sexual stereotyping of the spirit of Christmas. That is right. Santa Claus as the case may be is now going to be called “Person Christmas” as from next year. Throughout history Sinterklaas as he is known in his native North Pole has been a jolly fat man with red cheeks. Now he is skinny miserable and pale. 
New Zealand First is the party of traditional values. We stand firmly alongside Santa Claus and his inherent right to be a jolly fat man with red cheeks. We remind the health police that Santa has been around a lot longer than they have despite his obesity and high blood pressure. New Zealand First’s MPs will be hanging up their stockings as usual. We will be leaving out food and drink for Mr Christmas and it will be high in sugar and saturated fat and there will be a Christmas cake and port wine. We wish every member in the House and their families a safe and enjoyable Christmas and—just to make sure Mr Banks does not leave this Parliament as confused as ever—able to write their own speeches unlike him.