Glittering Ceremony

I think it would be better that no Auckland Councillors or the Mayor were present at the citizenship ceremony. I attended a citizenship ceremony pretty long time ago when these people were present and it was even more embarrassing. The Mayor was sung Happy Birthday three times during the ceremony, burst into song himself and leapt around the stage with his arms spread out, invoking the audience to join in his hilarity like a demented evangelist. I was sitting next to brand new citizens from various countries and I watched their discomfort turn to acute embarrassment and then abject horror. I believe it really was "a profoundly amateurish, chaotic and embarrassing event". Yeah right.