A recent poll shows that 70 per cent of Kiwis don't want to change the flag.

The referendum question, "Do you want to change the flag?" could have been asked on the ballot paper when Kiwis vote in the 2017 General Election saving tens of millions of tax payer dollars.

It would also have spared us the very cynical flag change process foisted upon us by the government.

Looking at the final four – now five – designs selected by the panel and signed off by Prime Minister John Key and his Cabinet, I get the feeling that we are being lead towards the fern design.

With three of the five designs featuring the fern it hard not to conclude we are being steered in the direction the government wants.

I'm hoping Kiwis won't fall for it.

On another note... I'm not the Peter ( with an ‘R' ) Morris who has publicly expressed his concerns about café tables of footpaths.

P Morris, Brookfield