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The Institute for Studies found that 78% enjoyed the feeling of superiority engendered by ostentatious plebby house decorations, known as 'housebling', more than anything else about Christmas.

Dr Tom Logan said: "There's nothing that says 'Yuletide' like driving through a council estate festooned with massive luminous reindeer and neon Santas and feeling like you're part of a super-evolved cultural elite that would never stoop to such crassness."

Social worker Mary Fisher said: "Council estate Christmas lights offer one of the few opportunities I get to vent my underlying hate and fear of the Iceland classes.

"I read the Guardian and go to percussion workshops at my local arts centre, but when I see a pauper's house festooned with a glowing tableaux of snowmen and the baby Jesus, I start thinking about how eugenics maybe isn't such a terrible idea, but in a refreshingly guilt-free way."

Council house tenant and housebling enthusiast Stephen Malley said: "I think they brighten the place up and I couldn't give a fuck what the middle class thinks. We've got our lights, they've got Pizza Express and Ben Fogle - there are lines no-one needs to cross."

Meanwhile middle-class advertising executive Nathan Muir said: "I've actually spent £35,000 on decorating my house with enough lights to cripple the national grid.'

"'But I've done it in an ironic way, clearly signposting the satirical nature of the display by hanging the angels in such a way that it looks like they're bumming each other."