They have been driven to the brink of madness by thoughtless migrant neighbours and their landlords: Will no-one help this retired couple?

As the impressively-named Social Impact of Population Change on Boston - Task and Finish Group grinds slowly through its business, and as our police and anti-social behaviour officers burn the midnight oil cutting out life-sized photos of themselves to intimidate ne’er-do-wells without leaving the office, we urge you to read the following distressing story …
It may be an exception and not a rule, but put yourself in the place of this retired Boston couple and consider how you might feel in the same circumstances.
Boston Eye is not naming them, nor disclosing their address - although we are willing to put anyone in authority who offers help in touch with them.
All we would say is that their home is not really what might be termed a “tougher” tougher part of town, but in the borough’s Witham Ward.
The letter speaks for itself …


“Those of us who are affected by immigration in Boston would like to see a reduction in numbers.
"There are far too many migrants here now.
“My wife and I are both retired and live in a three bedroomed semi-detached house. Five years ago the house adjoining ours was bought by a landlord and filled with EU migrants - and since then our lives have been made hell with loud music, all night parties and all night barbecues.
“These people have no regards and no consideration for anyone.
"To them we do not exist.
"It has been a constant battle for us to preserve our sanity. We have very often been on the edge of a mental break-down.
“We are forever having to ‘phone the landlord's staff and the council environmental health officer to report loud music, but when we do we are seen as the bad guys for spoiling their fun. I have to keep reminding the landlord’s man that we live in a house, and not a night-club.
“In the past we have been threatened by migrants and the landlord’s staff, we have also had migrants shouting, "f… off English b……s!" through the adjoining wall.
“My wife is worried that harm will come to us, the dog or the car, and we do not feel safe any more.
“I blame Boston Borough Council for the mess that the town is in.
"They have sat back and watched while greedy landlords have bought numerous houses to rent out to migrants with no regard for who lived next door.
“Quite frankly, we have had enough now. Both of us feel that we cannot take any more, and we feel that we are being driven away from our house. So we are hoping to sell up and buy ourselves a bungalow this year in order to get some peace and quiet.
“But who will want to buy our house other than a landlord? They would fit nine people in here easily - nine more for Boston.
“Since the last general election I have written to the Prime Minister, Theresa May, Iain Duncan Smith, and our local MP, Mark Simmonds, to express my concerns about the number of migrants who have come to Boston.
"I have put the same question to each one: ‘When we have three million people who are unemployed and a million youngsters who have never worked, why do you allow thousands of migrants to come here and take the work that is available?’
“I told the PM that there are so many migrants in Boston that there is no work or houses for local people, and that the town is like a ghetto of Eastern Europe.
“I suggested to the local MP that if we were not going to have a referendum to get us out of the EU, could we have a change of EU rules to allow each country to put the needs of its own people first?
“They do this in France and Germany. You cannot have a job in France unless it has been offered to a French person first. If the French can do it why can’t we?
“I have relatives in France and Germany, so I know what goes on there, and I know that we are the only EU country that gives benefits and free health care to migrants.
“If this country stopped giving benefits to migrants, it would solve the problem because most of them would go home.
“As it is, some get more in benefits than they would ever earn, which is why we see so many drunken migrant vagrants blighting our town. They don’t come here to work, but to bleed our benefit system. Some receive more money than British pensioners who have paid into the system.
“Any racism in Boston now is against the English. They do not get offered jobs, they do not get houses because the rents are too high, and they cannot get the benefits to supplement the high rents.
“Many cannot get an appointment with their doctor when they want one. Migrants demand to see a doctor and get seen on the day.”

Reading the above letter makes a mockery of the boast that “no-one need suffer anti-social behaviour in Boston” – as is so often claimed by the authorities.
The problems endured by this couple have gone on for years – apparently with nothing much by way of help - and we just hope that the great and the good take this on board the next time they plan some shabby publicity stunt to claim that they care.

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