Larry Williams Drive

Bad day in the Local Government New Zealand offices today, because Auckland Council just gave them the flick. This is what happens when you don’t read the room and try to force an unpopular policy like Three Waters on people. I'll explain to you what happened here; Local Government NZ is the body that is supposed to represent all the councils across the country and go in to bat for them. That's why these councils pay LGNZ huge amounts of money to belong to them  But LGNZ made a big mistake; they struck a secret deal with Nanaia Mahuta to allow her to confiscate the water assets off councils. All the while she kept pretending she wouldn’t do that. In simple terms, they sided with Nanaia against their own paying members.  Then the Taxpayers’ Union started campaigning against Three Waters, and so Local Government New Zealand banned the Taxpayers’ Union from attending their conference. A group of councils broke away and set up a rebel group called Councils for Local Democracy, it now represents more than a third