I wasn’t expecting anything relevant to the Southern Lakes in Bill English’s annual budget last week and he duly delivered an underwhelming result for the Wakatipu. It’s all about Auckland in the minds of politicians and the rest of us just have to accept our struggles are inconsequential to those pulling the governments purse strings. We are basically being told to keep paying our taxes like good little citizens and watch that money be transported north. But don’t complain, for after all we live in paradise and that fact alone makes us rich.