"Just because people are working class, lower class, underclass, poor or claimants does not make everything they do right. "

I didn't say that bad behaviour from a poor person is any more excusable than bad behaviour from a rich person.

What I'm saying is that the word "chav" isn't used in the way you suggest.

It is used to describe a particular demographic.

When I was in leicester, if you came from Beaumony Leys, New Parks or Northfields, you were considered a Chav by people not from there.

Don't go up there - its full of chavs ... etc

None of them of course saw themselves as Chavs, but each saw the other two that way.

You may have your personal understanding of "Chav" that you apply to people based on their behavour, but the reality is that most people don't use it like that.

It is a derogatory term for a social category also known as the scum of the earth.