The lunacy of lockup lost on me HERE'S the thing: I personally think that the budget lockup and childbirth have a lot in common. They are both painful experiences and they both go on and on. At least in the case of childbirth you are offered pain relief and you are eventually presented with a bonny baby. At the end of the budget lockup, you get to sit through the Treasurer's vacuous speech, which you have already read, and which is full of platitudes and half-truths.