With four months to go until the general elections, Winston Peters spoke to a crowd of about 300 people today in Tauranga as part of his campaign.
The New Zealand First party leader addressed the 2014 Budget which was announced on Thursday afternoon.
"It was a budget for a few and the very few. In short, to be fair, it was a budget in which National's cronies got cake and Kiwis got the crumbs," he said, stressing the gap between "rich" and "poor" was growing.
He said the budget failed for a number of reasons, including "no plan to rapidly grow our exports, no plan to save our way out of dependence on foreign money, no real plan by taxation incentives to grow and diversify the economy" and "no plan to put the shared interests of a massive majority of New Zealanders first".
He focused on the country's debt, saying it was in a very vulnerable place.