Dear Julie Anne Genter, Dr Kayla Kingdon-Bebb and Craig Renney – Boycott the Taxpayers’ Union faux debate

Dear Julian Genter, Dr Kayla Kingdon-Bebb  and Craig Renney – Boycott the Taxpayers’ Union faux debate!

Comrades, empowering these bad faith actors is a disservice to the democratic debate.

We are calling on every Labour, TPM and Green candidate to boycott the Taxpayers’ Union bad faith farce.

I created the idea last election and got the Taxpayer’s Union to pay for it.

I wrote the questions and wouldn’t allow any editorial from TU so candidates from the Left appearing knew they had a far chance in a hostile audience and that intellectual tension made that debate series a benchmark for rigorous debate from both sides.

This election season I have nothing to do with this and in the last 3 years the Taxpayers’ Union has morphed from mischievous libertarian geeks into a funnel for dark money that has had an enormously corrosive impact in NZ Politics.

Look at her they are framing the election platforms, AS BRIBERY

That is the Taxpayers’ Union ‘Bribe-o-meter’, they are describing policy as bribery FFS!

They are bad faith actors who have become drunk on their own influence.

You can’t appear at any of these debates and pretend it will be fair.

My replacement is former Labour MP accused of bullying, Anna Lorke FFS! Sh’e the ‘balance’ to Libertarian ‘free speech champion’ Damien Grant is she?

The debate series won’t be on Freeview, it will be streamed on Alt-Right Billionaire Jim Grenon’s increasingly hostile NZ Herald.

So a right wing hate group as balanced as your average ACT Youth social function broadcast on an Alt-Right Billionaire’s web site?

Y-E-A-H, ’bout that.

If Labour, Greens, TPM and TOP boycott such a bad faith debate, imagine the embarrassment of them being forced to only debate amongst themselves!

Only National, NZF and ACT will turn up, let them turn on each other.

There is no centre in this debate, only rallying your base, agreeing to appear in such bad faith debates for their benefit doesn’t further our cause, it furthers theirs!

The boycott would serve a wider message than any debate could.

Engaging enables them this time and there is simply too much at stake this election to grace bad faith actors with the legitimacy of our presence.

We will be contacting all candidates on the Left and asking them to show solidarity and boycott enabling a fake union.

Dear Julie Anne Genter and Craig Renney – Boycott the Taxpayers’ Union faux debate