CHRISTOPHER FINLAYSON (National): It is great to be back after a wonderful New Zealand summer in Wellington—a city that very soon will be strongly National. [Interruption] It is my hope that those honourable members who are not fortunate enough to live in this great city also had a good summer—and I refer to my friend from New Zealand First. It is also great to support my leader’s motion of no confidence in this grotty Government. Why? Because this Clark-led Government has consistently failed to make any significant improvement in the areas of real importance to New Zealanders. It lacks ambition; it is tired; it is bereft of ideas; it has lost touch with the people who put it there; and under its lead our country has become a story of lost opportunities. It is so apparent that as time has gone on, Labour has concentrated more and more on its own survival—witness its performance last year—and less and less on the issues that matter to the people of New Zealand.
