She even names the groups - Hobson’s Pledge, the Opposition parties (presumably National and ACT), and your humble Taxpayers’ Union are singled out as encouraging a ‘nasty undercurrent of racism’. (Credit to the interns who have to moderate such comments on the Taxpayers’ Union Facebook page.) It certainly looks that way to us, but Mahuta was at pains to deny it during an interview on the Taxpayers’ Union podcast. But co-governance does seem to be the issue that sticks in the noses of liberal commentators weighing up which side of a policy debate is the side of virtue. Whenever the Taxpayers’ Union mentions the words ‘co-governance’, we expect an instinctive lashing out from advocacy groups on the political left.

Source: Stuff November 19, 2021 02:36 UTC