These are interesting times to start a regular blog about Buckinghamshire and its neighbouring areas.
The area is one of the most affulent in the country; unemployment is less than half the national average and house prices are some of the most expensive in the land.
Yet now, after 50 years of relentless growth and prosperity, people in Buckinghamshire and its surrounds face a real prospect of hardship.
For the first time, Government investment is being directed away from the south east, where Bucks is one of the wealthiest areas. Government grants to local councils and health authorities - which was already reduced under the previous Government - is being further reduced from a stream to a trickle.
There won't be many tears from areas of the country where unemployment is already high and where public sector cuts will have an even harsher effect, but the peoople of Buckinghamshire are in for a cold shower. Chancellor George Osborne and his partners are putting pebbles, not peas, under the feather-bedded mattress.
How will the people react? Revolution? Strikes? Street demos? Probably not
Stop voting Conservative for the first time in 60 years? That would be something.
We shall see.
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