Mail on Sunday star columnist slams Boston



A few weeks ago we expressed delight that the Daily Mail had given away a map of the East Midlands featuring Boston on the cover – a PR boost for the town, putting our name before millions of readers.
In the spirit of no good turn going unpunished the Mail has made up for all that in spades with a four-page diatribe about Boston and immigration by star columnist Peter Hitchens – which is also published on the Daily Mail’s website … read by around five million people each week.
The piece – headed Boston, Lincolngrad “investigates the strange and troubling transformation of a sleepy English town.”
In it Hitchens recalls a visit to the town nearly thirty years ago, and contrasts what he found then and “how shocking it is to return and find Boston so strangely and unexpectedly transformed…”
You can read the piece here for free to save giving the Mail £1.50 of your hard earned cash to see your hometown rubbished.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2037877/Boston-Lincolngrad-Peter-Hitchens-investigates-strange-troubling-transformation-sleepy-English-town.html   
We say rubbished because – even though what a lot of Hitchens says may well be correct – the report is not well balanced.
We expect much wailing and gnashing of teeth from the great and the good of the borough – but the fact is that the stable door has been closed – and Boston has disappeared beneath an avalanche of 3,000 damning words from which it could take years to recover.
We well recall events of three years ago when Boston was portrayed as fat and stupid in a Channel 4 programme called The woman who stops traffic.
At the time, a gullible Boston Borough Council aided and abetted this travesty - then wept tears of rage and announced their intention to demand an apology.
Of course, nothing ever happened.
We wonder how they plan to address this latest bolt from the blue.

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