
What a buggers muddle! All due to a clumsy piece of legislation that was hastily drafted due to whole Auckland "Super City" council being formed. There are still bugs in it, just like a sloppy piece of computer code, and it looks like the little Horowhenua district is going to be where this is put to the test.
Of course all of these political & legal games are merely a symptom of what is really going on here. Which is, to be blunt, factions of the previous regime failing to accept that we are now operating in a new paradigm. One of essentially anti-globalism / pro *true* democracy on a local level for want of a better explanation.