Southend though do seemed to have pissed off a large percentage of the local airspace users that don't use the airport.
They haven't pissed me off (yet). They've always given a helpful service when I've flown over the top of their runway, and I don't (yet) have any reason to suppose that this'll be any different in the future.
(They did once climb me into cloud and sounded very apologetic when I reported "G-CD level at 3,000, it's india mike charlie up here" but of course I'd have refused the request if I hadn't liked it.)