Got a bit of a hard time for a series of posts which slowly linked Whaleoil, Simon Lusk, Jordan Williams and Steven Joyce first to the Brash Act coup and then to the anti MMP campaign.
They have gone public over the last 24 hours.
Lusk and Williams first two to like the Facebook page.
Vindicated.
Now of course in the interests of transparency they will tell us who is paying them.
Doubt it is John Banks who singlehandedly funded the Brash coup. At the moment he looks like he is going to get into Parliament with the support of the Leader of the National Party, with an other likely to be his leader Brash.
“This goes a long way to confirm my suspicion – that this anti-MMP campaign is in fact another anti-Green Party campaign in drag.”
Sort of. It’s an anti-progressive campaign. The idea is to put a firm foot on the throat of all progressive political and social movements.
In this context the Greens aren’t really the target so much as they’re in the way.
Warning whale spouting and foaming.
As a late arrival into this debate can I suggest a good reason why we need MMP
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Vandalised-Conservative-Billboards/117203521630597
In the UK 35%, just over 1/3 voted for the Conservatives, yet they got to govern. Parties must have a clear mandate by virtue of votes cast. The right don’t like that Labour and Green are closely aligned; before the Foreshore and Seabed act upset Maori they could count on that too.
What I find most bizarre is the I share eight Facebook friends with patsy Jordan Williams, and four of those are Labour MP’s!
From today’s Herald – John Armstrong
Vote for Change looks very much like the National Party Preservation Society in drag.
Couldn’t have put it better