Anti-MMP plan leaked

Last updated 05:00 29/05/2011
David Farrar
DAVID FARRAR: Providing strategic advice to a group planning a campaign to get rid of MMP.
Opinion poll

What electoral system do you think is best?

First Past the Post

MMP

STV

Vote Result

Relevant offers

Politics

Click Here
Treaty obligations to stay in SOE sales law McCully email thief could be Kiwi PSA disappointed Key won't discuss cuts Delays in privatising ACC work account No background checks on Education ministry staff Labour fears for Kiwis in ministry shake-up The one-seat threshold Today In Politics: Thursday, February 23 Police complaint over election programme McCully's emails revealed

A group of National and Act Party activists is preparing to launch a campaign against MMP.

Details of the campaign, to be launched soon in the lead-up to the referendum on MMP on election day in November, have been leaked to the Sunday Star-Times.

Among the campaign's key players is Simon Lusk, who played a major role in Don Brash's leadership coup against Act leader Rodney Hide.

Jordan Williams, the young Wellington lawyer who accompanied Brash on the day he deposed Hide, is being considered for the role of frontman of the campaign.

David Farrar, National's pollster and a well-known right-wing blogger and columnist, is providing strategic advice. Also involved is right-wing blogger Cameron Slater, known as Whale Oil.

Ad Feedback

- © Fairfax NZ News

Special offers
Opinion poll

Rate the Government's restructuring of the public service:

Good - it's a bloated bureaucracy

Bad - they're cutting too many staff

Vote Result

Featured Promotions

Sponsored Content

Pagani blog pointer small

John Pagani - Left leaning

Don't set Treaty back 25 years

The Whip blog pointer small

Andrea Vance and John Hartevelt on politics

More complex questions on Crafar