The big scandal at the moment here involves allegations from former pupils that David Benson-Pope MP abused them in the most bizarre ways when he was their teacher in the 80s. Some of this allegations maintain that he "stuffed a tennis ball in a student's mouth and taped his hands to a desk, threw tennis balls at students' heads, caned a student until he bled, and smacked a student in the face with the back of his hand on a school camp, making his nose bleed."

The second scandal involved Immigration Minister David Cunliffe who has had to apologize for what was deemed "racist behaviour" in parliament a few weeks ago. MP Pansy Wong, who moved to Aotearoa from Hong Kong in 1974, was told to "wead" rather than "read" a particular document. It is claimed that her colleagues laughed and passed notes as she spoke.

One can only presume that Cunliffe is a good friend of Conor Lenihan.

Published by Colm.