Jones ShaneHon SHANE JONES (NZ First): Wow what a week of irony. You know Shakespeare said Something is rotten in the State of Denmark." On the other side it's rancid. On the other side it's fetid. On the other side it's festering while these false spurious allegations are made about our Government and the modest role I played in the area of Hokianga. What do we find? Not only the police but the Serious Fraud Office is now possessed with information relating to people possibly on the other side of the House.Now the bar has been set for the provincial champion to declare a conflict of interest. Has the Leader of the Opposition yet been interviewed by the Serious Fraud Office? Was the Leader of the Opposition interviewed by the police? More to the point will he declare to the New Zealand public that he has been and if that is the case will he stand down? No. Where is this self-styled crusader of civic responsibility from Fairfax pummelling and pounding the other side of the House? There's conspicuous silence from the media.This is a very dangerous development in the integrity of our electoral system. People who are investigated by the Serious Fraud Office often go to jail—go to jail. Now I've already said earlier today that in the unlikely event it was the Leader of the Opposition he'd go to the youth offenders' wing. I won't carry on however in that vein because I know there are important conventions.Look out of a tiny small issue—and if the champion of the regions has done anything that's questionable it's to argue for the interests of the provinces. That's why the provinces are continuing to act like an echo chamber for this far-sighted policy the Provincial Growth Fund. So manea actually means "satisfied". Our Government is satisfied that investments of that nature will bring growth jobs and overdue fiscal sunshine to the neglected parts of regional New Zealand.Now we've watched a pattern of this. We've watched a proud police officer be lampooned and suffer scurrilous allegations. He had done nothing wrong yet he was pilloried tainted and stigmatised. May all of that wrongdoing rest upon the head of the Leader of the Opposition because he says he's the leader of the National Party but it's not his responsibility in terms of what the Serious Fraud Office is looking at. I make a prediction: the Serious Fraud Office once unwisely sicked by that side of the House on to our leader knows we will study every single step that they take to ensure—because it's the National Party—it's not whitewashed. We will ensure that happens. This is incredibly serious and people may very well go to jail because they won't have offended the Cabinet Manual; they will have broken the law.Now there is another Simon that I want to spend a wee bit of time talking about because that man over there is very much a political corpse. You don't handle money and then suffer an investigation and expect to stand in front of the New Zealand public as clean as Caesar's wife. He unfortunately is going to spend far too much money and far too much time diverted on these very serious potentially criminal charges. So that's what we're going to hear about in terms of the National Party going forward. There won't be any talk about their prospects into the next election; rather we're going to focus on how many of them will still be fit to stand—a limited number.Let me round up. There is another Simon who has let us down on this side of the House. This is a message to corporate New Zealand: do not arrogantly take upon yourselves the ability to influence foreign policy and make these unwise statements as Mr Simon Moutter did to the sharemarket thus providing an opportunity for anxiety and stress for all of our exporters. Show judiciousness. Do not go beyond your corporate writ. Wanderlust you may be. Thank you very much."