“..John Key’s body may have been holidaying in Hawaii for the past two weeks.
His mind remained very much at home.
In the space of a 20-minute press conference on his return to Auckland yesterday, the Prime Minister made rubbish of the notion that his Government had been snoozing through the Christmas-New Year break..
..oblivious to the worsening world recession.
Key is the last person who needs telling that 2009 is going to be a very tough year for the country..
..and consequently an equally difficult one for his Government..
..to put it mildly.
It is doubtful while he was away whether much else interrupted his thinking about how he handles that challenge.
If anything else intruded..the constantly ringing prime ministerial cellphone would have given short shrift to it.
On the other end of the line would have been staff and officials who have been beavering away back home ahead of today’s stocktake meeting of senior Cabinet ministers on the state of the economy.
Prime Ministers don’t really go on holiday, but the time away has allowed Key to reset his priorities..
..although circumstances are largely setting them for him.
He knows the country is expecting leadership from him..
..even if the ramifications of what is coming economy-wise..
..have still to sink into a lot of people’s consciousness..”
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