The mini-budget's annoyed almost every NSW voter. Let the blame game begin.

It's one of those rare government announcements with something for everybody... to be really upset about.

There is nothing 'mini' about the mini-budget - it's a major catastrophe for the limping Labor government.

No one has been forgotten in Treasurer Roozendaal's pre-christmas handout; like some dark Santa he has dished end-of-year financial pain for commuters, motorists, residents from the north, south, east and west of Sydney, and across the state.

Parents have also been left a nasty surprise under the mini-budget tree, so have public servants, big businesses, first home buyers, the rich, the poor, even kids.

The unpopular tax increases and funding cuts go straight to the heart of just about every interest group in the state. Traditional labor voters are probably the biggest victims.

It is an electoral disaster, and the government's only relief is that the nearest election is years away. If it were in 2008, they'd be marched out of Parliament House with 'never to return' stamped on their foreheads. They'd be forced to face the long-suffering people of NSW whose pitchforks are sharpened, at the ready, and firmly pointed at Eric the Knife and Razorman Rees.

But Messers Roozendaal and Rees, while entirely easy and enjoyable targets, can't cop all the grief over the very sorry condition of the former Premier State.

Don't blame them - there's a long list of more deserving characters.

Morris Iemma, for one, had more to do with NSW's current strife, but not a lot more. Unable to control his own party, his competence as Premier can be rightly questioned, but at least he went out fighting to avert the current financial disaster.

Remember the warnings? "We need to sell of power, or we'll all run out of money." I do. By god, he was right. And, loathe or just dislike him, former treasurer Michael Costa was right too!

He warned we were all heading for an ugly money mess that had nothing to do with the current world financial crisis. No wonder he spat the dummy and quit. He knew what was coming.

Though Costa and Iemma to some degree are both guilty as charged, don't forget to blame the others too.

There's Bob Carr for not spending enough on infrastructure during his many years in power. Also blame the Labor party for not planning a solid financial foundation for Australia's largest city. Blame it for dithering on dozens of public transport initiatives, putting party politics before the common good, developer friends before the general community, backroom favours before sensible appointments, and political spin before well-though-out policy.

But most of the blame for this week's mini-budget should fall on the Labor party for selling-out to the unions on the power sell-off. The state is now paying for that failure to sell.

Blame John Robertson, the former union boss who's now entrenched as an MLC in Parliament house. He almost single-handedly blocked the power sale. He claimed to speak for the people, working to protect the rights of working families. They're the same working families who are now groaning under the weight of a mini-budget designed to fill the gap left by the failed sell-off.

Robertson couldn't have done it alone. He piped a merry tune, and Karl Bitar from Labor HQ followed. Together they defied those members of the Labor party publicly elected to make decisions. And there was no way they could have done it without the Liberal party, so blame Opposition Leader Barry O'Farrell too.

Despite the Libs 'in-principal' support for privatisation - it was just too tempting. After 13 years of waiting he had the golden opportunity to deliver a crippling blow to the hated enemy. But his decision to block the sale has also crippled the NSW economy.

It's also kept billions out of the Labor government's hands.

Finally, blame the whole lot of them for not coming up with a plan B.

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