Bennett David: General DebateText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeBennett David: General Debate[Sitting date: 06 April 2016. Volume:712;Page:10246. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]DAVID BENNETT (National—Hamilton East): There are not many times in life that you get an opportunity like this—to follow on from a dead duck like that last speaker the Rt Hon Winston Peters. He listed more members of the New Zealand National Party than he can name in the New Zealand First Party. I will bet you he could not even list all of his members of Parliament if he tried to even if he wrote them down—even if they were written down. But there are some names he left off that list. Where was Brendan Horan? Where was that fine member of the New Zealand First Party? Andrew Williams—another great member of the New Zealand First Party. Asenati Lole-Taylor—where is she? Where is the rest of the New Zealand First Party? When you need them they do not stand behind you Winston—they are not there.Do not trust these ones. As soon as you left today Mr Peters the next man beside you—I cannot remember his name—Jacqui Dean: Ron Mark.DAVID BENNETT: Ron Mark. He stood up. He thought this was his chance to do question time. He was more important and he wanted you out of this room. He let you go Mr Peters. I would not trust him—just see what he did to the past deputy of the New Zealand First Party.But we have got news for the New Zealand First Party: it is already in coalition agreement talks with the Labour Party and the Green Party. They have actually come to policy agreements. The New Zealand First Party the Labour Party and the Green Party have already worked out their manifesto. Let us look at this manifesto. The Labour Party is doing one of the big party policies of this manifesto.Alfred Ngaro: What is it?DAVID BENNETT: It is going to set interest rates. Andrew Little with his great experience as a union leader knows everything about finance and the world. He will set the interest rates for New Zealand. Andrew Little will tell all the banking sector that he knows best and that his idea of what the interest rates of New Zealand should be will be the one that everybody has to follow. I would like to see him set those interest rates. I would like to see him actually make sure those interest rates happen and I would like to see what sanctions he would do if those interest rates were not followed.But there is more. There is James Shaw from the Green Party. His contribution to this manifesto is $100 million for Kiwibank. That is to make it a commercial enterprise so that it can become a fully commercial bank. When would $100 million get a fully commercial bank in New Zealand? That would not happen. All Mr James Shaw is doing is fiddling with the deckchairs amongst the Labour - New Zealand First policy arrangement. It is not going to work. If anything it would cause Kiwibank to go into the commercial market of larger loans and we all saw what happened to the BNZ last time. And Mr Peters knows all about that because he was there.The next part of policy that both the Labour Party and the Green Party have agreed on is the universal basic income—over $200 for everybody not to work. It is the way to say that just because you are a New Zealander we are going to pay you over $200. I wish that approach would work for all New Zealanders because we come to the fourth policy plank of the manifesto which is the “Mr Winston Peters” policy plank which is to say no to immigration and also no to foreign investment. If a New Zealander is not a citizen or a resident permanently active in New Zealand they will not be able to buy a home under New Zealand First policy. The Labour Party—Rt Hon Winston Peters: That’s right.DAVID BENNETT: That is right; you heard it there—you heard it there. The Labour Party has agreed. The Labour Party has said that it is going to increase the refugee quota but at the same time reduce the total migration to New Zealand. So all those migrants out there in New Zealand remember that the Labour Party and the New Zealand First Party want to say no to bringing your family in no to bringing your children into this country and no to people who want to make this country their home because that is their policy to stop immigration.And the last part of their policy is greater taxes for New Zealand. We all know that the Labour Party wants to see greater taxes for New Zealanders the New Zealand First Party wants to see greater taxes on New Zealanders and the Green Party cannot wait to see New Zealanders pay greater taxes. We know what they are doing. They have created their manifesto. It is to say no to immigration it is to say no to foreign investment it is to say yes to higher taxes and it is a policy that will never work. We cannot wait to see Andrew Little actually deciding how to set interest rates in New Zealand and Winston Peters actually deciding who can become a New Zealander and who cannot. Thank you.