John Key is right on all counts. The restoration of Christchurch, both from the point of economic or social, is not only a testing for the city, but also for the rest of the country, which will show its strength and determination. The Prime Minister might have added that this is also the National Party for a test on a scale unprecedented since the strikes of 1951 [or "Waterfront Strike", in which 20 000 workers had stopped work in solidarity with employees Wellington Harbour].
One could even go back further, since this is the worst peacetime crisis since the Great Depression in the 1930s. It's also the biggest challenge for John Key since he was Prime Minister. But the game was apparently a foregone conclusion. The general elections this year would endorse the defeat of a National Party government moderately competent rather than the victory of a Labour Party out of inspiration.
The earthquake of Christchurch, in fact, changed the situation and turned Election Day into doomsday. Judgement upon the basis of a single criterion: the management of the disaster of Christchurch. The management of what promises to be a long and painful recovery will be the measure of skills of the National Party, it's as simple as that.
Since that fateful Tuesday, February 22 to 12 h 51, the usual political life was suspended. Nobody has the heart to bicker. Parliament sat briefly - and just to express solidarity with the people of Christchurch. And for the third time in six months (after the first earthquake of Christchurch, in September 2010 and the explosion in the Pike River mine in November), the Labour Party was indented.
The scandal of the BMW was trying to shake John Key [who had initially denied knowledge of the purchase of limousines by the government before any information establishes that he knew]. The terrible tragedy has left this bad happening. To say he is lucky indeed heinous, but it is a political reality.
The current political vacuum benefit one person: the Prime Minister. John Key is omnipresent, if not omnipotent. It has benefited the most benefit conferred by its position to be everywhere at once and appear before the public and the media. Necessary. The task at hand is immense. In addition, boost the economy of Christchurch, amid desolation, could prove very profitable in political terms for his party, and maybe even offer him enough seats to govern without coalition authority.
However, it would have been smarter to work hand in hand with opposition to speed recovery from Christchurch: a decision that would have bypassed the Labour Party and allowed the National Party assume most of the merits of the recovery if these policies are successful. Ministers and senior officials prefer to work hard to offer emergency assistance for residents and businesses to help them restart until the establishment of a more adapted to the long term.
The priority of this plan is to prevent the events of Christchurch from undermining the tentative economic recovery taking place in the rest of the country. It is for this reason that John Key has hammered that Christchurch would be rebuilt. Slaughtered citizens must be convinced that their city still has a future.
The earthquake last September had plunged the city into a sort of torpor and that of 22 February he was virtually given the coup de grace. Practically, because (fortunately) the city was not razed. But she faces a significant economic decline. If one considers the damage to buildings and infrastructure of the city, it will be difficult as trade resumed for a while.
Remains as to whether someone is willing to invest in Christchurch, while the current economic environment has already created so much uncertainty. 
One could even go back further, since this is the worst peacetime crisis since the Great Depression in the 1930s. It's also the biggest challenge for John Key since he was Prime Minister. But the game was apparently a foregone conclusion. The general elections this year would endorse the defeat of a National Party government moderately competent rather than the victory of a Labour Party out of inspiration.
The earthquake of Christchurch, in fact, changed the situation and turned Election Day into doomsday. Judgement upon the basis of a single criterion: the management of the disaster of Christchurch. The management of what promises to be a long and painful recovery will be the measure of skills of the National Party, it's as simple as that.
Since that fateful Tuesday, February 22 to 12 h 51, the usual political life was suspended. Nobody has the heart to bicker. Parliament sat briefly - and just to express solidarity with the people of Christchurch. And for the third time in six months (after the first earthquake of Christchurch, in September 2010 and the explosion in the Pike River mine in November), the Labour Party was indented.
The scandal of the BMW was trying to shake John Key [who had initially denied knowledge of the purchase of limousines by the government before any information establishes that he knew]. The terrible tragedy has left this bad happening. To say he is lucky indeed heinous, but it is a political reality.
The current political vacuum benefit one person: the Prime Minister. John Key is omnipresent, if not omnipotent. It has benefited the most benefit conferred by its position to be everywhere at once and appear before the public and the media. Necessary. The task at hand is immense. In addition, boost the economy of Christchurch, amid desolation, could prove very profitable in political terms for his party, and maybe even offer him enough seats to govern without coalition authority.
However, it would have been smarter to work hand in hand with opposition to speed recovery from Christchurch: a decision that would have bypassed the Labour Party and allowed the National Party assume most of the merits of the recovery if these policies are successful. Ministers and senior officials prefer to work hard to offer emergency assistance for residents and businesses to help them restart until the establishment of a more adapted to the long term.
The priority of this plan is to prevent the events of Christchurch from undermining the tentative economic recovery taking place in the rest of the country. It is for this reason that John Key has hammered that Christchurch would be rebuilt. Slaughtered citizens must be convinced that their city still has a future.
The earthquake last September had plunged the city into a sort of torpor and that of 22 February he was virtually given the coup de grace. Practically, because (fortunately) the city was not razed. But she faces a significant economic decline. If one considers the damage to buildings and infrastructure of the city, it will be difficult as trade resumed for a while.
Remains as to whether someone is willing to invest in Christchurch, while the current economic environment has already created so much uncertainty.
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