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I don't live in Hackney Wick, no, although I'm not very far from there. I'm Hispanic, and a second-generation immigrant - does that make me more 'authentic'? The cockneys in the area would probably disagree. But they're white and British so they must be posh twats. Oh, wait...
I agree that the recently arrived are probably particularly visible. And there are questions to be asked about whether there's enough affordable housing in the new developments to maintain the diversity of the ward, and whether the artistic hubs like Vittoria Wharf should be preserved to stop the area being redeveloped into a corporatised monoculture.
But dismissing every single inhabitant of the ward as a posh wanker is just as tedious and ill-founded a prejudice as claiming Brixton is 100pc yardies. It's clearly knee-jerk bollocks.
So, we're ignoring data and going with your gut feeling, then, is that the story?
"They're all posh twats and trustafarians. And some, I assume, are good people."