They didn’t hold back. 
I wish we could " Like " posts, on here!
About fifteen years ago now, read a cracking report, written in the seventeen hundreds, about my home town of Portsmouth.
From memory, it went very much like:
" Portsmouth is a vile place. Mired in pestilence. And peopled largely by Gypsys and Foot Pads. "
I thought; " Not much has changed then. "
