I said:

Dartmouth gives the game away in his/her last phrase:

So it's about protecting one's investment, isn't it?

Oi can tell you, us old inhabitants don't take koindly to them incomers with their fancy City ways using their million pound bonuses to buy up all the houses and wanting poncy boutiques and that and pricing us ordinary folk out of the market so that our children can't afford to live here. It's a roit scandal, I tell'ee.