From the wilds of Central Otago I am cheering loudly, clapping enthusiastically and hooping and hollering “go you good thing” to the councils in Taupo, Tararua and Rangitikei who are basically saying to the government “get stuffed.”
I write this on the last day of July. In ten days the deadline imposed by Local Government Minister Simon Watts for the country’s local authorities to find a dance partner or two runs out.
