CaMMP not behind NZ First revival

The Campaign against MMP (CaMMP) denies allegations that it is behind plans for a resurrection of Winston Peters and New Zealand First.

CaMMP spokesperson Ms Wishful Thinking said the strategy had crossed their minds but they’d decided it wouldn’t work.

“I can’t say we weren’t tempted, we even had a slogan: “A vote for MMP is a vote for Winston”, she said.

“But we’re not that desperate and we really don’t want to be associated with him, even if we used him as something to vote against,” she said.

“Good grief, this is the man who said he wouldn’t take the baubles of office, then took them, clung to them when he was sacked, and even after he was kicked out of parliament.

“This is the man who ranted about secret funding of political parties who took anonymous donations and didn’t declare them as the rules require.

“This is the man who illegally used $158,000 of public money to campaign then voted to make it legal in retrospect, refused to pay it back, said he’d donated the money to charity instead but has given no proof of that.

“This is the man who was censured by a select committee and still couldn’t bring himself to admit he’d done wrong.

“This is the man who propped up a government which sent us into recession long before the rest of the world and disguised the parlous state of the economy by taxing and spending.

“We don’t want to give him the publicity he obviously craves and quite frankly no-one int heir right mind would want him near parliament again.”

When asked about people in their wrong minds, Ms Thinking said, “Quite frankly, I find it difficultto believe anyone could be that stupid and if they were we wouldn’t want them supporting us, anyway.”