It was revealed this week the E Tipu E Rea Trust, a new body set up to promote and support the controversial schooling model, was given a $500,000 charter school contract without going to tender.

Act Party leader David Seymour says the decision not to go to tender is justified because the trust members are high quality.

It is so reassuring that our taxes are only handed out to ‘high quality' people.

And not wasted on the unemployed, homeless, sick, needy, ‘lower quality' members of society.

How do you get the New Zealand ‘High Quality' mark?

Does it mean no blemishes, lower fat content, being pesticide-free or that you contribute to the National Party?

We pay this buffoon a salary, expenses and the cost of his cock-ups.

God defend New Zealand from its MPs.

P Dolden, Papamoa.