Well, what a less than glorious two days in our political landscape.

All this argy-bargy surrounding a Budget that will be public knowledge in two hours time.

We now know that the budget leak controversy has been a trap laid by National that Treasury has blundered into dragging their Minister in with them. But whether Grant Robertson knew that Treasury knew more about what happened, I guess we’ll never know.

He will come out saying that he was just following the advice of Treasury Secretary Gabriel Makhlouf.

Why Makhlouf was hiding Treasury's knowledge of the methodology is weird. There was no need for him to hide his and his IT team’s incompetency since he’s already got a job as basically Ireland's Reserve Bank Governor.

What we do know is that Winston Peters knew nothing and just came bursting out as the old bruiser that he is. And you know what? He doesn’t care. You won’t see an apology out of him. Just a big grin as he walks away

I know I feel sorry for the poor National Party staffer who spent two days of his or her life, fishing around on the Treasury website to find four or five words or numbers each time which was then cut and pasted into a leaked Budget. Long slow mind numbing work. I've put a video of how they did it on my Facebook page so you can see how pain staking the process was

And I would also remind you that hacking is defined as the use of a computer to find information that the user is not authorised to see. It’s not the methodology of the searching that defines the legality.

Did this play make Simon Bridges more electable and respectable? I don’t know. It’s very beltway. It’s very political and nothing to do with leadership and policies and vision.

The real Budget is the real deal on that count.

We are about to find out whether this Government has the chops. The middle budget of a term is when any government has the freedom to be who they are.

So like all Budgets, I’m expecting to see some great ideas and some terrible ones.

I’m expecting to see mental health and addiction services given some love, because they have been ignored for too long and sit at the root of many of our social ills.

I’m hoping that infrastructure continues to be watered because it oils the productivity of the nation.

And I’m demanding that the Government keep to their self administered budget responsibility rules and they don’t go into deficit.

Bring it on. So far this week politics has been a circus. It’s time to get real.