Pissed as a Garrett

Matthew Hooten can rest easy. His performance on Eye to Eye earlier this year was sane and moderate compared with the slurred rantings of new Act MP David Garrett:

"Paedophiles, like homosexuals, 30 years ago homosexuals had, according to experts, a disease and they needed to be cured and it was a spectacular failure because homosexuality is a sexual orientation, so we decided that because there were 10 per cent of people who were homosexual it was no longer a disease."

Can't wait for his maiden speech in parliament.

UPDATE: You can view the episode here.