Out loud the Welsh Government said relatively little, observing a gentleman's agreement with the UK Government not to attack each other's submissions in public.
Tenor Anthony Dean Griffey gave a heartfelt performance as the supersize but emotionally immature Mitch, who becomes Blanche's "gentleman caller" for a little while.
"When I met with the gentleman that looks after some of that little bit of money for me, there's a littler little bit than there was three months ago, and a lot less than there was six months ago, " he says.