CHRIS BISHOP (National): Thank you very much, Mr Speaker. Well, isn't a week a long time in politics, because last week, petrol hit $3 a litre and MPs' inboxes around the country were filled with constituents saying, "I can't afford to top up my car."; inflation was at 5.9 percent, twice the rate of wage inflation—so, in other words, Kiwis are going backwards—food prices are up 6.8 percent in a year, the largest increase in a decade, and it wasn't, according to the Prime Minister, a crisis. She used every word under the sun she could possibly think of to call it anything other than a crisis. It was challenge, it was a problem, and she acknowledged the difficulty many people were facing, and what happened last week was there was a poll which showed the National Party ahead of Labour for the first time in two years. What did the Government do? They panicked. They went into panic mode, and they were embarrassed over the weekend into announcing on Monday a 25c reduction in fuel tax and road-user charges. Panicked—an embarrassed response from a Government that is out of ideas and is out of energy. 