""Lots of my friends grew up on housing estates - and some of them, like me, grew up in rented housing. Those people are not chavs and neither am I!"

Thats how you use the word Chav.

The fact is that the word chav is a derogatory term that refers with contempt to people perceived by the user to be lower class."

Lox, you are a sanctimonious, self-righteous ... person. I think that we probably need to dream up a derogatory term to describe people like you!

I can't do better than to quote Richard Bridge above:

"Lox, you have not heard. It is not about class. It is about a subset of behaviour. Plenty of people of working class, plenty of people from the underclass are not chavs.

You are not listening because it does not suit your version of the class war."

You've probably not heard that either because you're stuck so far up your smug, sanctimonious, self-righteous rear end!!