Bennett David: General DebateText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeBennett David: General Debate[Sitting date: 03 June 2015. Volume:706;Page:4270. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]DAVID BENNETT (National—Hamilton East): Just following on from that point about the death of Joan Kirner the first woman Premier of Victoria National members pay our tribute as well.In this House today we had a question from the New Zealand First Party around the SuperGold card access that they were supposed to deliver for the punters who voted for them. I will just read from an article that quotes the words of the member for Northland: “I’ll get you a Gold Card across there. But it goes like this: you’ve got to vote for us first.” Well they did that. They voted for them. They voted for them. And have they been delivered the SuperGold card access? No not at all. What I am going to say next—there will be points of order from the New Zealand First Party because they will not like this but this is the truth of what happened. There was an email on 27 May from Winston Peters to the Minister for Senior Citizens. That is only because he knew that the media was on to the story first. He did that email only after the media was on to the story to cover himself. That is the old Winston Peters New Zealand First - approach to politics. What they did is they came into this House today and said “Oh we sent you an email on 27 May.”—only a week ago not even that—and “We are looking after our constituents.” What a load of rubbish. The people of Northland will never get anything out of the New Zealand First Party and they know it. That is the reality of that political party.Denis O’Rourke: Why did they vote for us then?DAVID BENNETT: Oh why did they vote for you? They voted for you for some unknown reason that nobody can find out but they will not do it again I know that much.Ron Mark: 70 years.DAVID BENNETT: Seventy years. OK—43 years it took for this Parliament to deliver for the people of New Zealand who were on welfare 43 years. Labour could not lift a finger and deliver for those people and National did it. Labour never did it. It cannot even get a decent leader who can do a decent speech. Labour members sit there now ignoring the reality of what is going on.Bill English did a great speech yesterday He talked about the reality of left-wing politics. In the left wing it is about control of people. That is all it is about. It is not about empowering people it is not about giving people education and the ability to make their own futures. It is about control by having a group of academics on that side of the House who think that they are holier-than-thou and can come in and tell other people what they should do with their lives. We have seen the newest of the holier-than-thou come in as the leader of the Green Party. I say to the Labour Party you should be worried about that man. You should be worried about him because he is putting across a rational image for the Green Party—which is unusual I know but he is doing that. And he is actually talking about the environment which is something they never talked about and was one of their big failings. But he is doing those two things and in doing that he is eroding the left-wing vote from the Labour Party. He will be eroding the left-wing vote from the New Zealand First Party.But I tell you the public of New Zealand you cannot trust anyone on that side. Even if they come into this House saying what you want to hear they do not believe it. There is no way a leader of the Green Party can actually have a rational thought. That is not possible because that party is the party of extremes. They do not vote in people like that. People who will have rational thoughts will not be in that party and you can do all the messages you like but your party is in exactly the same boat—Mr SPEAKER: Order! The member will resume his seat. I have a point of order—well I hope I have a point of order.Denise Roche: I raise a point of order Mr Speaker. I find what he is saying personally offensive and I would ask that he withdraw it—Mr SPEAKER: Order! No—this is a robust debate. If that offends the member she is frankly in the wrong game.DAVID BENNETT: Look I just want to back that up with a bit of proof if anything. Richard Prosser spoke and his line of the day was that possums live in the bush and eat the bush. So let us talk about rational thoughts coming out of that side of the House. That is your best speaker and he talks about possums living in the bush and eating the bush. Are we not lucky to have a bush at the end of the day? That was Richard Prosser. Well the Green Party—do not trust them. Do not trust that man. That man is coming into this House professing to be some kind of neutral leader of a political party. The Green Party will always be the extreme in this Parliament. It will hurt the Labour Party at the next election because it will go out there and try to take those rational left-wing votes. So the Labour Party will have to take out the Green Party at some stage and well the New Zealand First Party is just a protest party. It is just a party where if nobody can find anything else to vote for they vote for them. It is a shame that its members actually believe that they stand for something and that they are of any worth in this Parliament because they are not. It will be a good thing when they go because then this Parliament will actually be a much better place. It has been a great Budget it has been a great time to have these speeches and we look forward to it following through the House.