Monarchy and homepathy

John Pagani blogs at Stuff:

...by commenting as if he were still in charge of the military, the governor-general has involved himself in the controversy.
His comments on this dispute might be valuable, but to know that we would need to be able to scrutinise them more closely. We can't because the GG is not accountable to us.
So when he makes an assertion that there's nothing to worry about and then runs away, he sounds like homeopaths explaining why science doesn't apply to them.
Much better if our head of state were able to speak openly, but to do that we need to get rid of constitutional awkwardness.
To become governor-general he had to pledge allegiance to a foreigner, the Queen, who calls you her "subject". He is her representative in New Zealand, not your representative. To make this arrangement vaguely plausible, we have to pretend that the GG has no real opinions and sits above mortal things, and these pretences are not true.