So our new Prime Minister is treading the same path that John Key trod towards exclusive, ethnic privilege and racial disharmony with his support for holding a Memorial Day to commemorate the so-called ‘Land Wars'. This commemoration is a thinly disguised effort by the Tainui iwi to project their profitable version of the conflict perhaps in the hope of inducing Treaty Negotiations Minister Chris Finlayson to give away even more of the taxpayers' money. Mr English has also found it pragmatically and politically propitious to reverse his moral stand on same sex marriage. As Walter Scott said in 1808: 'O what a tangled web we weave, when first we practise to deceive”.

Bryan Johnson, Omokoroa.