The Backdown Budget

"Errrmmmmm..."

That's what it's being called now, and rightly so. Flipping on the 'bigger classes is better for you' education portion of the budget meal (and they made a real meal of that) has had Hekia Parata dragged through the mud, but where's Bill English? It was his budget and his responsibility, but where's he hiding while bits of it fly off spectacularly? There've been no shots of Bill's weathered mug on our screens, no questions put to him by keen journalists, no appearances on TV's political half-hour shows, no sign of the wee mousy at all! Was it not his budget after all? Where does the buck stop, for a budget that's been named, 'Backdown'?

*Update - seems I've fallen for McCully's spin - I'm letting Key slither away from his poor performance as Prime Minister responsible for what his Government does. Better include his mug as well.