约翰基和保守党党魁Colin Craig已明确表示打算在9月大选中利用选举制玩一把，送给保守党一个国会议席。
工党领袖大卫康立夫就此指出：面对行动党在EPSOM选区实质上已无候选资格的局面，总理现在表示他将和保守党达成某种“通融”，以图保住国家党的执政地位。
这是国家党为了当政不择手段进行的又一宗不光彩交易。
约翰班克斯（John Banks）2011年凭借1.1%的得票率和臭名昭著、与总理同享的“那杯茶”重回国会，之后约翰基的一系列有争议和不受欢迎的举措便得到班克斯的支持。
如果没有班克斯的支持，国家党剥夺辛勤工作的新西兰人工间餐休权利、并减少雇员对工资与雇工条件的议价权的企图就不会得逞。
而这位行动党议员姗姗来迟的离场将提醒新西兰人认识到上述交易带给他们的是什么。
没有那个交易，特许学校就根本不会存在；而国家党能让广受诟病的出售国有资产通过立法，凭的也仅是班克斯的决定性一票。这是错误的。
大多数新西兰人会同意选举委员会和工党提出的移除MMP选举制“裙带效应”条款，但国家党拒绝作出改动，这也是错的。
工党已准备好一份移除“裙带效应”条款的议员个人议案。基先生只需对此点头支持即可。
可是他不会这么做，因为他想要带着Colin Craig和一群乌合之众进入国会，以撑持他的第三个任期。
那么，Craig先生为国家党撑场子的价码又会是什么呢？推翻婚姻平等法案？还是重写历史，说人类根本没登上过月球？
新西兰人在以往6年里经历了太多国家党的幕后交易了，把宝押在保守党身上只是又添一宗而已。
（英文原文如下）
David
CUNLIFFE
Labour Leader
10 June 2014 MEDIA STATEMENT
Key now banking on Colin Craig
John Key and Colin Craig have made it clear they intend to game the electoral system with a seat gifted to the Conservatives in September, says Labour Leader David Cunliffe.
“With ACT virtually unelectable in Epsom, the Prime Minister is indicating he will make an ‘accommodation’ with the Conservative Party to try to remain in power.
“This is yet another dodgy deal by a party determined to do whatever it can to stay in government.
“John Banks was returned to Parliament in 2011 by 1.1 per cent of the vote and that infamous ‘cup of tea’, and John Key got his support on a number of controversial and unpopular initiatives.
“National’s attempt to deprive hard-working New Zealanders’ rights to meal breaks at work, and to reduce their bargaining power over wages and conditions, won’t proceed without Mr Banks’ support.
“But the ACT MP’s belated departure will remind New Zealanders what they got as a result of the deal.
“Charter schools wouldn’t exist without it, and National was able to pass the hugely unpopular Asset Sales legislation only with Mr Banks’ vote. That was wrong.
“Most New Zealanders will agree with the Electoral Commission and the Labour Party that the coat-tailing provision of MMP, which National refuses to change, is also wrong.
“Labour has a Private Members’ Bill ready to go to remove that provision. All Mr Key has to do is agree to support it.
“But he won’t because he wants to bring Colin Craig and a rag-tag bunch of candidates into Parliament to shore up a third term in power.
“What might we look forward to as the price of Mr Craig’s support? A reversal of the marriage equality legislation; a rewriting of history to suggest man did not land on the moon?
“Banking on the Conservatives is yet another National backroom deal of the kind that New Zealanders have got only too used to over the last six years,’’ said David Cunliffe.
