And it's this guy below, Gwynn Compton, that jumped in on a design promotion on LinkedIn in March, whilst I was Lecturing in China, and showed his complete ignorance and lack of any cultural sensitivity that really fascinated me as to the appalling lack of ability in the advisers to the PM. I imagine you may know him.
The thread was started by Simon Darby bemoaning the inclusion of a designer on the Flag panel and the Gollam-esque precious obsessed character, Michael then appeared and offered to run free seminars as he visited relatives in England about abstract designs to be considered rather than "sliver fern gate" as I think he called it.
Simon Darby deliberately deleted the threads after I pointed out to Gwynn that trolling for opinion on the professional site, making uninformed statements of his own bias, were not fit for his capacity as a PM adviser. I also used the example of Te Rauparaha after he bagged Markham as a murderer. I have his partial understanding to focus my unexpected involvement with making a submission.
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15th April, EVEN More re Gwynn
https://ponytailgate.wordpress.com/compton/
Bryce Edwards on Gwynn
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/opinion/news/article.cfm?c_id=466&objectid=11448657