Stop Co-Governance Tour leader Julian Batchelor. “There is absolutely nothing to substantiate the claims made at the meeting in relation to New Zealanders arming themselves,” she said. Batchelor has been touring the country as part of his Stop Co-Governance Tour, which has attracted protests, and several venues have cancelled his bookings for meetings. Invercargill Mayor Nobby Clark. Clark said the group getting closed down at venues across the country was “a sad indictment of democracy in this country”.