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Every time I hear a reference to the "Taxpayers Union", I mentally replace it with "Tax Evaders Collective". Because they're not a union, and they're probably not paying taxes. Not to mention that I have a strong suspicion that a significant portion of their funding is foreign.
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Ex-ACT staffer Grant McLachlan says party created fake grassroots groups Political pundits and media experts are warning that artificial grassroots organisations - nicknamed "astroturfs" - are being used to manipulate and mobilise public opinion for political gain.

Timely reread.

“ACT "weaponised" astroturfs. #nzpol #TaxpayersUnion

"So when the TPU were saying 'This is a problem', it was actually a contrived problem that the ACT Party told them to create.”

What problems will they be inventing for ACT to ‘solve’ for the 2026 NZ election?

#AtlasNetwork Orgs & Govts use George Orwell’s “1984” Double-Speak & Double-think- to trick the public eg Gaza #BoardOfPeace #TaxpayersUnion #VoicesForFreedom etc & #education & #media-control, #austerity & endless #division, #lies, #conflict, #war & #violence to control the population

#AtlasNetwork Orgs & Govts use George Orwell’s “1984” Double-Speak & Double-think- to trick the public ..eg Gaza #BoardOfPeace #TaxpayersUnion #VoicesForFreedom etc & distraction, #education & #media-control, #austerity & endless #division, #lies, #conflict & #war to control the population #BigOil

Even right-wing watchdogs don’t rate the coalition’s performance - Witchdoctor It's a worry when a conservative pressure group comes out swinging at a government they would traditionally support, writes PAT PILCHER.

You know there's something seriously wrong when a right-wing watchdog reckons a right-wing government's performance sucks.

www.witchdoctor.co.nz/2025/even-ri...

#CoalitionGovernment #taxpayersUnion #governmentrating

The Campaign Company: Astroturfing for fun and profit

The Campaign Company: Jordan Williams of #TaxpayersUnion - #AtlasNetwork org #nzpol
www.astroturfing.nz/the-campaign...

Started by #AtlasNetwork org #TaxpayersUnion & Jordan Williams, to support #HateSpeech as Free Speech, #FSU’s veneer of reasonableness hides a darker mission of knocking institutions, sowing the seeds of racial division, & importing culture wars on issues like transgender rights. #nzpol

The birth of the Free Speech Union

Jordan Williams, #TaxpayersUnion &
The Birth of #FSU the Free Speech Union: #AtlasNetwork #Disinformation #nzpol
www.astroturfing.nz/the-birth-of...

The Campaign Company: Astroturfing for fun and profit

Like Seymour, Brown, Bishop, Willis, Roger Douglas, & Ruth Richardson, Jordan Williams=indoctrinated with #Neoliberal ideology by #AtlasNetwork, pushes their agenda #NZ

The #CampaignCompany: Jordan Williams of #TaxpayersUnion an #AtlasNetwork #disinformation org
www.astroturfing.nz/the-campaign...

Birth of #NZ #FreeSpeechUnion
4 people from #TPU #TaxpayersUnion turned up & brainstormed. By 10am Mon, they’d opened a bank account & created a website-the #FreeSpeechCoalition #FSC aka #FSU was born #Atlas #Astroturfing #nzpol www.astroturfing.nz/the-birth-of...
www.astroturfing.nz/the-birth-of...

The birth of the Free Speech Union

Birth of #NZ #FreeSpeechUnion
4 people from #TPU #TaxpayersUnion turned up & brainstormed. By 10am Mon, they’d opened a bank account & created a website-the #FreeSpeechCoalition #FSC aka #FSU was born #Atlas #Astroturfing #nzpol www.astroturfing.nz/the-birth-of...
www.astroturfing.nz/the-birth-of...

The birth of the Free Speech Union

Birth of #NZ #FreeSpeechUnion
4 people from #TPU #TaxpayersUnion turned up & brainstormed. By 10am Mon, they’d opened a bank account & created a website-the #FreeSpeechCoalition #FSC aka #FSU was born #Atlas #Astroturfing #nzpol www.astroturfing.nz/the-birth-of...
www.astroturfing.nz/the-birth-of...

The birth of the Free Speech Union

Birth of NZ #FreeSpeechUnion
4 people from #TPU #TaxpayersUnion turned up & brainstormed. By 10am Mon, they’d opened a bank account & created a website-the #FreeSpeechCoalition #FSC aka #FSU was born #Atlas #Astroturfing #nzpol www.astroturfing.nz/the-birth-of...
www.astroturfing.nz/the-birth-of...

#Groundswell-imported from Eu, pretends to be a grassroots #farmers group fighting climate action but is actually funded, organised & politicised by #JordanWilliams, an Atlas acolyte (like Seymour), his #CampaignCompany & #TPU #TaxpayersUnion = #AtlasNetwork disinformation org, for #BigOil #nzpol

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Maybe Aotearoa needs a nonpartisan citizen's organisation that does what what the Taxpayers Onion purports to do; evaluate spending by publicly-funded organisations against the public benefits it realistically creates. While also pointing out corporate welfare in its various forms, eg public […]

New Zealand is under siege by the Atlas Network - The AIM Network Just as the Atlas Network-connected Advance body intervened in the Voice referendum in Australia and, in recent weeks, a by-election, similar organisations spawned from the [...]

Luke Malpass (Stuff/ThePost)is a “Fellow” of the #AtlasNetwork’s #NZInitiative (#NZI was Business Roundtable).
Jordan Williams of #TaxpayersUnion is also a “Fellow” of #AtlasNetwork.
& David Seymour was awarded an “MBA” from Atlas Network in 2008 & Luxon is NZI #NZ #nzpol
theaimn.com/new-zealand-...

#FSU= Free Speech Union -
An #AtlasNetwork disinformation org created by Jordan Williams who also created #TaxpayersUnion -another Atlas misinformation org pushing foreign #BigCorp #profit #greed & #Kiwi-wealth-transfer agenda while undermining #NZ’s Democracy #nzpol

#AtlasNetwork org - the #TaxpayersUnion -#TPU push tobacco, alcohol, speed, fossilfuels, rascism & more