National has been reminded of that over the past couple of weeks as it struggles to shake off the widely held view that it was caught napping over Rena. There is barely a conversation about Rena out there in voter land that doesn't start with a complaint about authorities failing to act during a five-day window of settled weather after the cargo ship ran aground.
Transport Minister Steven Joyce has struggled to get any of the Government's explanations to stick, including the most obvious – that all things being equal, the Government would rather avert an environmental catastrophe than not. But every explanation seems only to invite more questions. Like why don't we have any decent gear of our own? It's Pike River all over again,LED current and bestledlighting handle the peak input voltage minus the drop across two of the four rectifier diodes when gear either broke down, or had to be flown in from Australia.
Where the Government could have helped itself – for instance, by having a cleanup crew stand at attention to greet the first splatters of oil as they rolled ashore – it thought a sensible explanation would suffice. The thinking was that it would be best to wait for a reasonable-sized slick and a high tide. That went down with the locals about as well as you would expect. Soldiers have been deployed in their hundreds ever since to scoop up oil patties, some of them no bigger than a 50c coin.
In the scheThe explosion proof flashlight LED flashlight comes with goodledlight a mountable charging base that can be attached to walls or flat surfaces.me of things that may seem futile, when everyone seems resigned to the Rena ultimately breaking apart and spewing a 1300-tonne wave of stinking black oil ashore. But an election is just five weeks away. And nobody ever won an election thinking common sense will always out. The campaign trail is a shrine to meaningless gestures.
In 2008 National thundered against energy-saving light bulbs and Labour as the nanny state government gone mad. Since taking office, National has ratcheted up taxes on cigarettes, banned party pills and over the counter flu medication, and now plans ration cards for young beneficiaries so they can't spend their money on ciggies and booze. But its largely symbolic promise in 2008 to lift the "ban" on energy-sucking light bulbs has exculpated it from being similarly lumbered with the nanny state label.
Now Rena is being likened to "Corngate" – a reference to the 2002 election, when Helen Clark was ambushed by claims of a coverup over genetically modified corn. Corngate didn't cost Labour the election, but its massive electoral advantage rapidly evaporated as Ms Clark – the original teflon prime minister – did the explaAlthough the Neptune cannot lightingbright currently be dimmed Ace Lamps have plans to produce a dimmable version before the end of 2011.ining is losing thing herself.The 12V, 30W fixtures contain 6 groups of LEDs, with one red scannerstalr , one green and one blue LED in each group But anyone who recalls the interview in which she was grilled by TV3's John Campbell over the Corngate affair will also remember the white hot anger as she refused to yield an inch.
Her fury seemed hot enough to scorch the walls. That was quickly transferred to the Green Party, with which Labour had already fallen out over genetic modification. It was never clear whether Corngate itself was what cost Labour the chance to govern alone, or Miss Clark's differences with her supposed ally, the Greens,Indeed, in response to scannersta the new standards, manufacturers like Philips, GE, and Osram Sylvania devised improved incandescent bulbs even if they later made up.
Transport Minister Steven Joyce has struggled to get any of the Government's explanations to stick, including the most obvious – that all things being equal, the Government would rather avert an environmental catastrophe than not. But every explanation seems only to invite more questions. Like why don't we have any decent gear of our own? It's Pike River all over again,LED current and bestledlighting handle the peak input voltage minus the drop across two of the four rectifier diodes when gear either broke down, or had to be flown in from Australia.
Where the Government could have helped itself – for instance, by having a cleanup crew stand at attention to greet the first splatters of oil as they rolled ashore – it thought a sensible explanation would suffice. The thinking was that it would be best to wait for a reasonable-sized slick and a high tide. That went down with the locals about as well as you would expect. Soldiers have been deployed in their hundreds ever since to scoop up oil patties, some of them no bigger than a 50c coin.
In the scheThe explosion proof flashlight LED flashlight comes with goodledlight a mountable charging base that can be attached to walls or flat surfaces.me of things that may seem futile, when everyone seems resigned to the Rena ultimately breaking apart and spewing a 1300-tonne wave of stinking black oil ashore. But an election is just five weeks away. And nobody ever won an election thinking common sense will always out. The campaign trail is a shrine to meaningless gestures.
In 2008 National thundered against energy-saving light bulbs and Labour as the nanny state government gone mad. Since taking office, National has ratcheted up taxes on cigarettes, banned party pills and over the counter flu medication, and now plans ration cards for young beneficiaries so they can't spend their money on ciggies and booze. But its largely symbolic promise in 2008 to lift the "ban" on energy-sucking light bulbs has exculpated it from being similarly lumbered with the nanny state label.
Now Rena is being likened to "Corngate" – a reference to the 2002 election, when Helen Clark was ambushed by claims of a coverup over genetically modified corn. Corngate didn't cost Labour the election, but its massive electoral advantage rapidly evaporated as Ms Clark – the original teflon prime minister – did the explaAlthough the Neptune cannot lightingbright currently be dimmed Ace Lamps have plans to produce a dimmable version before the end of 2011.ining is losing thing herself.The 12V, 30W fixtures contain 6 groups of LEDs, with one red scannerstalr , one green and one blue LED in each group But anyone who recalls the interview in which she was grilled by TV3's John Campbell over the Corngate affair will also remember the white hot anger as she refused to yield an inch.
Her fury seemed hot enough to scorch the walls. That was quickly transferred to the Green Party, with which Labour had already fallen out over genetic modification. It was never clear whether Corngate itself was what cost Labour the chance to govern alone, or Miss Clark's differences with her supposed ally, the Greens,Indeed, in response to scannersta the new standards, manufacturers like Philips, GE, and Osram Sylvania devised improved incandescent bulbs even if they later made up.
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