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"Many of those moving into neighbourhoods such as Deptford – myself included – would prefer not to see themselves as part of the wave of displacement and feel some allegiance to the kind of progressive politics that protects and supports low-income inhabitants."
The only irony I see here is massively unintentional. I'm right with @Jingle_Jangle on this.
There is nothing more nauseating than the middle-class 'intelligentsia' getting all hot-under-the-collar about the working (or non-working) classes.
Hitting the nail very squarely on the head there.
Read it again? I think you're missing the irony