The truth is

out there -

on Boston's

streets

Among our readers we are pleased to number many who are well informed when it comes to the issues facing Boston.
One such person has been in touch after yesterday’s blog which – among other things - quoted a senior Conservative Boston borough councillor as saying: “I would like to make it known that Boston is like everywhere else in relation to this distillery issue rather than a place with worse issues than everywhere else. We must try to avoid giving ourselves a label we can't lose for having serious problems no one else has.”
Our contributor has this to say:
“I am astonished by some of the opinions of those whose duties I assumed included paying attention to due diligence, that have been aired publicly concerning the sociological ills of Boston.
“For a councillor to quote a homeless figure of just twelve in the entire Boston area over the local airwaves, displays an ignorance of galactic proportion. I hear that the ruling party are also now suggesting that the manufacture of illegal substances (both alcoholic and narcotic) in the Boston is merely representative of, and comfortingly in keeping with, the greater National phenomenon. Such naivety and misplaced optimism defies all belief.
“I would suggest that such deluded voices take the opportunity to stroll the streets of this town on a Friday and Saturday night and early morning.
“In so doing they will rapidly realise;
“i) that illegal substances are not only freely available in Boston, but are also manufactured and brewed locally at discount prices. There is both an over the counter and under the counter trade that operates from foreign run 'late night convenience stores and bars'.
“ii) that there is a simmering xenophobia which regularly boils over into violence, fuelled in no small way by the above and is getting worse by the day.
“iii) what happens on the streets of this town and what is actually officially reported are two very different things. Authorities shy away from bad news - at least that part, rightly or wrongly, is understandable.
“iv) a cursory check of various hideaways will reveal considerably more than a dozen individuals (both local and foreign) who have no home to speak of and drift from one enclave to another.
“v) the token removal of licences counts for nothing. Does this Council really think that those who habitually deal in counterfeit and illegal substances are going to let the small issue of a licence deter them from their nefarious activities? But then again, according to our august Leader, this is a Police problem anyway and therefore not one to soil the hands of local government.
“It is now high time for this new council to come out of hiding and start addressing the real issues that are plaguing our historic town. They were certainly quick to criticise the former order but have now been found to be sadly wanting, themselves.”


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