I genuinely believe that Chris Luxon, the Leader of the Opposition, misspoke when he called people "bottom feeders". I genuinely believe that he is a better person than that, and he misspoke and he probably regrets that. But this is not the way, nor is it the rhetoric, to increase productivity or profitability. It is the tired words and out-of-date ideas from a previous time, and we need to do better. I refuse to buy into the National philosophy that workers are just numbers on a spreadsheet to be manipulated and characterised as mere factors in production to be minimised and traded in a way that is unacceptable to most. Former Prime Minister the Rt Hon Jim Bolger actually bought into the need for us to make change. And when I hear Paul Goldsmith talk about unions in the way he does, it makes me wonder what he actually truly believes about workers and their rights. 