The main story of the week in Hong Kong is perhaps the Budget Speech by Financial Secretary John Tsang. It's been lauded as finally giving some solace to an increasingly hard pressed middle class. But it has also been criticized as still not doing enough for the very poorest members of Hong Kong's society. It may be the case that any politician, particularly an opposition politician, who doesn't have anything bad to say about the Budget can be criticised for falling asleep on the job. But the so-called professional critics are not alone. Although the Budget seemed to include many sweeteners, it still didn't seem to score all that highly with members of the public. A few days before John Tsang's latest Budget, the think tank SynergyNet published its 'Review of Hong Kong's Public Finances'. The report was aimed at providing a framework for systematic analysis of the public finance system of the HKSAR Government. Synergynet is also holding a public forum on "The Budget Hong Kong Needs" this coming Sunday, in collaboration with City University of Hong Kong. With us in the studio is the Vice-Chairman of SynergyNet, Brian Fong. With the publication of an advert in local papers this week describing certain mainland visitors to Hong Kong as locusts, the level of heated rhetoric between Hong Kong and the mainland has stepped up a notch. Opinion polls have asked Hong Kong citizens how much they identify with the mainland. That's just one of many issues that certain Beijing officials do not want Hong Kong academics to be discussing at all. And they are not afraid to say so.