Kaye Nikki: General Debate 
Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume 
Kaye Nikki: General Debate 
[Sitting date: 07 November 2012. Volume:685;Page:6371. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.] 
NIKKI KAYE (National—Auckland Central) 
: 
 I am very pleased to speak in this general debate. I want to speak about not only National’s economic plan but also the situation that we were handed in 2008 and about how we have turned it round. I want to contrast that to the Labour Opposition which is in absolute crisis. We saw that today in that those members could not even bear listening to David Shearer or Ian Shearer who could not even get the name right of one of our most senior Ministers. 
Under this Government we have turned the situation round. Where inflation was running at 5.1 percent exports had flattened out completely Government expenditure was out of control back-office bureaucracy was booming and the Treasury books showed never-ending deficits we are now in a situation where we are seeing steady increases in average after-tax wages. Inflation is lower mortgages at $200000 are half of what they used to be and we have seen a creation of jobs. We have done this because we actually have an economic plan on this side of the House. We have a plan around labour market reform. We have a plan around innovation infrastructure the Advanced Technology Institute. We have a plan around affordable housing. We have a plan around investment in broadband of $1.5 billion. 
This side of the House has a plan and we contrast that to the economic policy of the Labour Party which I think can best be described as emergency management: “stop drop and roll”. Let us have a little look at that. Labour’s plan is to stop a whole lot of things that National is doing. Let us name just a few things. Labour will stop greater intensification and development of the agricultural sector. It will stop the 90-day trial period. It will stop the 3000 jobs for  
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 movies. It will stop public sector reform. And then it will drop a whole lot of policies that it campaigned on in 2011. We saw that in David Shearer’s foreign ownership bill. We saw that pulled. We saw the confused position around the Kapiti Expressway. 
So we have the “stop” and the “drop” and what is the final part of its economic plan? It is called “roll”. Anyone who has been in Copperfields lately can see that the Labour Party is completely divided. The rumour has it that the numbers are 19 to Grant Robertson and 15 to David Shearer. What does that mean folks? It means that Rajen Prasad and Raymond Huo if you are listening you are the kingmakers. And we can see today that when the Opposition cannot even be bothered to listen to David Shearer’s speech when Grant has just popped by New York to see Helen and when clauses are being inserted by random members of the Labour Party to buy the union votes there is a serious situation. You contrast that to a Government that has serious economic policies in terms of innovation capital markets and infrastructure reform and investment to a party that is divided and in my view about to undertake the final part of its economic policy of “stop drop and roll”. 
There is a clear choice for New Zealanders. You have a party that has turned things round from a dire situation of spiralling debt and a lack of investment in infrastructure to a party that is in complete disarray that wants to put up smoke and mirrors because it does not have any economic policy. There is a clear choice for New Zealanders. I am very proud to be a member of the National Party. 
Debate interrupted.