Sam’s intervention initially seems legitimate, as he expresses the discontent that the entire crowd feels and thus serves as a representative for the villagers. However, his anger about the motorway already suggests that the real source of his anger is probably not the money itself, but larger, unrelated problems in Tollington. Finally, his attribution of the source of these problems to non-white people turns valid criticism into a gratuitous expression of hatred, no longer in line with his actual grievance.