Unaffordable housing

On 29 June 2018 the Times carried the following article:
"You can’t accuse Labour MPs of being quick to jump on a bandwagon. It’s taken them two decades to get agitated about an iniquity that was blooming obvious from the first weeks of the National Lottery’s chequered existence. “The fear was always that the lottery would winkle vast sums from the working classes to pay for middle-class pleasures,” I wrote in this column on April 29, 1995. “That is now a reality.” And 23 years later the reality has finally been noticed by those intelligent, caring folk in Westminster."
The RA Summer show has included Street Art with a little protest.  
Is this ironic or what?