Wanting to be landed gentry is not hypocrisy. ("want to be landed gentry" is your interpretation, but I'll stipulate it for the purposes of this response.) No

Wanting to be landed gentry is not hypocrisy. ("want to be landed gentry" is your interpretation, but I'll stipulate it for the purposes of this response.) Note that a significant fraction, probably even a majority, of the 10M prospective Londoners would much rather live in today's "only 14M London" than the "25M London" that you think should happen. Are these prospective Londoners wanna-be landed gentry hypocrites?