Friday Awards Day Budget Special

The usual Friday features, plus Best and worst Budget Takes, with strong showings by Pop-Up Leader and B Moreton

There we are then, another budget, and if we average out all the commentator responses it comes out at approximately: that did not completely suck.

This, of course, is one of the highest accolades achievable in New Zealand politics. Congrats.

Next slide please, I wish to put up a graph and compare Core Crown revenue.

• Core Crown revenue in 2010: 56 billion…