Ross Jami-Lee: General DebateText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeRoss Jami-Lee: General Debate[Sitting date: 05 March 2014. Volume:696;Page:16345. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]JAMI-LEE ROSS (National—Botany): Fifty years ago in 1963 in a small town in Te Aroha in the North Island one David Richard Cunliffe was being born. Sitting on one side of the bed was the good fairy. The good fairy blessed David Richard Cunliffe with charm intelligence and good looks—a leader in the making. Unfortunately sitting on the other side of the bed was the bad fairy who made him out to be the plonker that he is today. The other side of the House knows that the bad fairy won out on that day because it is having such a tough time doing any good work and trying to get up in the polls.Across the House I see Grant Robertson smiling. He is smiling because he knows that he is next in line. He is next in line. Chris Hipkins is smiling too I can see—sitting on the other side of the Leader of the Opposition’s seat—because Chris Hipkins knows that he was right. Chris Hipkins knows that when he said that David Cunliffe could not be trusted he was absolutely right. The Labour Party has had a heck of a year. It is going backwards it is not going forwards and it knows that it is not going well.Hon Annette King: You got here because of Pansy.JAMI-LEE ROSS: During question time Annette King who is calling out right now—also Parliament’s most famous landlady superannuitant and someone who has been here longer than I have been alive—called out “Shambles.” She used the word “shambles”. She used the word “shambles”. I want to expand on that. I want to use the term coined by the British political scene’s most famous spin doctor Malcolm Tucker. He would call what the Labour Party is going through an omnishambles. It is going through an omnishambles right now—an omnishambles where it just cannot get things right.Its leader is tricky. Its leader was blessed by the bad fairy. Donations are being kept secret when those members are the ones who try to say that donations need to be brought out into the open. Leaked emails are coming out of the Labour Party left right and centre. Poor old Clare Curran got blamed for it then a staff member got blamed for it and then we found out that it was actually through David Cunliffe’s own office. Do you know that David Cunliffe—I was looking him up on Wikipedia today—is actually an honorary fellow of the Institute of IT Professionals? An honorary fellow of the Institute of IT Professionals who does not know how to use email properly! What does that say? What does that say? It says that the Labour Party is having an omnishambles.It started off with the baby bribe earlier in the year. Labour members were going out there telling New Zealanders that all these people were going to get $60 a week. It turns out they were wrong. It turns out that another staff member got blamed again. It turns out that only half of those people were going to get the baby bribe. The electoral law breaches last year are also interesting. How can we have a Leader of the Opposition who does not even know that he cannot campaign on election day?Jacqui Dean: He knows.JAMI-LEE ROSS: Actually he probably does know; he is just being “Tricky Dave” once again.This Government is delivering for New Zealanders. That side of the House is going backwards in the polls. This side of Parliament has delivered 66000 new jobs in the lastyear. Forty thousand people every year are getting elective surgery—more than what was happening when Labour was in office. Seventeen thousand people have come off a welfare benefit in the past year. Ten percent more kids are leaving school with National Certificate of Educational Achievement level 2. New Zealanders have a Government that is delivering. New Zealanders see on the other side of the House an Opposition that is tricky that is having a nightmare of an election year at the moment and that is going backwards in the polls.I just want to finish off by saying that this side of the House thanks the bad fairy because the bad fairy is delivering for the Labour Party what Phil Goff never could. Phil Goff could only get to 27 percent. Mr David Cunliffe—David Richard Cunliffe—is going to deliver a result for the Labour Party that is even further south than that.This Government is delivering for New Zealanders. This side of Parliament is getting the support of New Zealanders because we have got a leader who knows what he is doing. We have got a leader who is high in the polls because he is delivering for New Zealanders. He is honest he is trustworthy and he is not tricky like the other side.