Good luck to them with their good fortune yet how pathetic would it be if they now wanted to cut themselves adrift of the hoi polloi like some arriviste aristocrat?
It is not a peerage and, among real aristocrats, such titles are the objects of derision, obtained as they so often are by arrivistes of the worst possible kind.
Allow their genuine brewing abilities and brewing history to be mocked by latter-day arrivistes often with no real authenticity but with a sharp eye to the main chance?
These are all indicators of an arriviste city whose new population mix struggles to find an image that represents a city still in the search for a new identity.
