PMofNZ nails it:
‘..Japan: 10 days later, with tens of thousands dead and missing, under threat of being radiated. Japan just got on and did the job, no moans, complaints or looting. Same goes for burying the dead.
But here in New Zealand, a different story. 5 weeks later Christchurch still is cordoned off, under the thrall of power crazed politicians and civil defence dictators, paralysed by local government petty bureaucracy, holding talkfest after talkfest, still wallowing in self-pity. A cock-up of the highest order from day one…’
