Peters WinstonGENERAL DEBATERt Hon WINSTON PETERS (Deputy Prime Minister): I move That the House take note of miscellaneous business.I have never seen such a leaderless rabble in this House in a long long long time—in fact I never have. Can I say that I recently got information about the approval/disapproval rating for the Leader of the Opposition one Simon Bridges and I can tell you that last year he got in a limo he spent $113000 of the taxpayers' money and the further he drove and the more people he saw the more his disapproval rating went that way and his approval rating went that way. Now there has never been—and this is what I'm reading out as well—a former leader of any political party whose disparity between the disapproval rating and the approval rating has been as high as Simon Bridges. That's what we saw yesterday and we saw today a leaderless rabble.And here comes the point: we've had a Serious Fraud Office investigation into what? National Party funding and how they'd hide their contributions. We've had then of course the blame game about an emotional junior staffer who took down a petition on the National Party's site because that person knew how inappropriate it was. When Mr Bridges had to explain it he denied the truth of the matter he claimed that it had already been taken down but on the chronology of events people knew that what he was saying wasn't correct. But here's the real rub: he described that as being the work of an emotional junior staffer. It wasn't; it was an experienced senior staffer and that person has gone on to resign.Then of course yesterday we saw the performing seal—unbelievable. But here was the real rub—because body language as every psychologist will tell you is important—he got ejected from the House. Last year when that happened his colleagues got up and resigned with him en masse. Yesterday I have never seen such a lonely pathetic sight as a leader leaving and there wasn't so much as a murmur or a mutter or even a protest from all of his colleagues. So the Ides of March—or dare I say it May—are here. They're here.You know the biggest thing he could find in the last year was a thing called slushies". Amidst all this maelstrom of incompetence and corruption that he claimed to be happening in the country the biggest thing he found was that the people out there in our prisons working in tremendous heat laden up with security equipment of 6 kilograms or more in full uniform shouldn't be able to cool down with some help from the taxpayer. He thought this was a massive political scandal and it went and had all the levitation of a lead balloon.Now then you have this real important matter which I want to stress: all of National's options aren't good. What was given to me the other day was the approval/disapproval profiles of four politicians two on this side and two on that side and the two on that side are equally as bad. Guess who the two good ones were? Well modesty and the defence of the Prime Minister's modesty doesn't enable either of us to talk about it but it's all good news. Judith Collins therefore is not an alternative leader but she's lining up and they're desperate and she's going to be supported by all those top-of-the-town financiers who have tried to contaminate for the exclusive interests of themselves against the interests of the many politics in this country. So that's where they're going to.Now if anybody doubts that just the other day Mr Bridges who is planned and appointed to go to Washington which is the annualised tour for the Leader of the Opposition to go to Washington decided to cancel. Why? Well he's too scared that if he's away—SPEAKER: Order! Order!Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS: Oh he's too worried that if he's away—I can't challenge his fortitude but he's so worried that if he is away the mice will play. Can I just say this: you know he should go because even an inmate deserves a last meal—a last meal. He should go. National is a party of four d's: distracted divided desperate and divisive. The Government's a party of four d's: driven determined dynamic and delightful.Now my last comment is: Mr Bridges has brought to politics all the excitement of a confabulation of undertakers."