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Finance Minister Bill English is congratulated by Prime Minister John Key seeing his 2014 Budget in Parliament, Wellington. Photo / Mark MitchellDoes the 2010 Budget represent 'communism by stealth' as some within the political right would have it, or possibly is it a 'Cabinet Club' Budget for the rich as some within the left allege? Neither actually. Although Bill English and John Key took National with a slight detour on the left, it's miles from radical or socialist. And allegations from Labour and also the Greens that it is a 'Cabinet Club Budget' are woefully beyond sync with the way will be received. In the end, National has smartly was able to cleave a middle line that suggests they are fiscally responsible and socially concerned.Labour plus the Greens seem determined to stick to message and portray this Budget to be a step to the proper by the Government, no matter the reality. They are looking to connect it with recent National Party controversies about fundraising from wealthy donors and also the corporate sector see TV3's Opposition slams 'Cabinet Club Budget'. Bizarrely, Green Co leader Russel Norman described it as the 'Cabinet Club' Budget 29 times in the Budget speech, just as if he hadn't taken any notice of the items was actually from the Budget. Similarly, Winston Peters' main line was the Budget amounted to 'cake for cronies, crumbs for New Zealanders'.Claire Trevett reflects on Labour's difficulty in addressing the Budget: 'Mr Cunliffe then sought to obtain his cake and eat it too. He for starters claimed credit for a lot of the Budget, saying policies for instance paid parental leave, bowel cancer screening and tackling kauri dieback disease were stolen inside a blatant raid on Labour.Having done this, he proceeded to provide the Budget a major thumbs down' see: No lollies but a great deal of 'fudge'.As Barry Soper says, 'Labour's bitterly complaining though.
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The complaint that The Tories want after their rich mates can be a little challenging to fathom so is their chant it's a 'Cabinet Club annual report'. It's doubtful the donors on the Tories will probably be popping the champagne corks over this one' see: Cunliffe fudged his Budget reaction.The best leftwing critique with the Budget comes, not from Opposition politicians, but from political journalist Gordon Campbell. He accuses National of political cynicism and cheap vote buying see: On yesterday's 'let them eat crumbs' Budget. While Campbell agrees National have gone for just a Labour lite approach, he notes they've done so over a tight budget: 'For this performance, National receives a round of applause for the tactical brilliance, and its particular skill in triangulating Labour's social policy programme, for any relative pittance. National seems to get perfected the ability of lowering the ceiling of expectations, and after that painting some pretty pictures into it to divert the paying customer'.Predictable responses in the rightThe criticisms from the appropriate have mostly been muted. But it's certainly possible to detect some unhappiness on National's right.One with the strongest critiques comes from the 'radical right' Cathy Odgers who bemoans that Bill 'English has morphed in a less witty Michael Cullen'. She thinks National's budget appeared as the result of market research from the likes of David Farrar: 'This offering could be the "Pollsters Budget", smelling just as if National pollster Curia conned a committee of confirmed Labour voters in order to meet for pizza and $50, then appointed a moderator and banged together Billy's Budget. Election budgets should lob lollies to potential voters, not Opposition true believers. Again Bill English acted just like the quintessential smug Kiwi farmer quite happy with increasing wealth on unrealised tax free capital gains. He bottled it' see: If this Budget is centre right, an amount the left hatch?.
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Mike Hosking generally approves in the Budget, although disagrees strongly while using universal extension of free doctor visits to children under 13: 'Why on this planet that's not means tested is beyond me, unless it's too complex to do this.Subsidising families that do not need it just for them to take their kid on the doctor as long as they get a sniffle is really a waste of money' see: Budget a document built on confidence. Hosking takes target those criticising the Government for not doing more for first homeowners: 'just the fact that was it we were holding wanting? Did they desire the Government to get them a home?'Not all for the radical right disapprove of National's centrist pragmatism. Fran O'Sullivan justifies the shift faraway from principle by praising John Key's strategic skills, and also disputing the notion that Labour incorporates a 'monopoly on social policies' see: Left stewing at poached policy.Rather than a radical shift left or right, the Budget was just a small, but well timed detour left. It was any type of Budget that might have been made by Michael Cullen as pointed out above by Pattrick Smellie in The worm turns in Budget 2014.And as I suggested around my Wednesday morning column National's Labour lite Budget it is led to significant damage to Labour. It's a situation that is certainly spelt out well in an insightful post by Lew Stoddart titled National lite. He says which the Budget has ruined the Opposition's ill engineered election strategy: 'Bill English's sixth budget somewhat such as the preceding five, but to some greater extent does a bit good and minimal evil, which basically ruins the opposition's plan, which will depend on Bill English and John Key being terrible ogres that eat babies, instead of supporting their parents with leave entitlements.