We will bring you other bits and pieces from the budget responses today, but you get the main drift – both parties are heavily in sell mode and willing to slide around with the truth. The Coalition more so than Labor at this early stage, but again – it’s early.

Peter Dutton and the Coalition is running around with the lines “cruel hoax” and “a budget for the next five weeks” while Labor has “struck the right balance” and “a new generation of prosperity in a new world of uncertainty.”

But what politicians (and in a lot of cases the media) don’t understand is that people are not as obsessed with the budget as they are, they don’t pour through the pages and they don’t listen to politicians. It’s more of a ‘what’s in it that works for me’ and then that’s it. They move on with their life. It’s the vibe they pay attention to more than anything.