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We are the workers' party. Over the last 20 years, the left vote has strengthened in cities and university towns, but weakened in many of the old industrial heartlands. But rather than that being explained by industrial decline, the distribution of home ownership and average voter age, the right, and bits of the reactionary left, I think they've nailed the culprit. Critical race theory and identity politics. Altru woke identity politics. Defund the police. Black lives matter. Trans-activism. Anti-police. Social activists. Anti-capitalism. Greta Thunberg. Anti-the family. Student radicals. Unconscious, biased, shady. Dangerous Marxist organisation. Middle-class Liberals living in fashionable cities. Liberal leftist political correctness. Tidal wave of the woke generation. Woke nonsense that is absolutely gripping the current left of this country. The idea is that we've all become obsessed with identity issues and ignore class, particularly we ignore the white working class. The same politicians who voted for cuts to schools funding and against free school meals now highlight the educational under-achievement of white British children from deprived households as evidence that A, institutional racism ain't all it cracked up to be. And B, even talking about racism has actively held back white kids from poor backgrounds. The plight of white working-class boys still seems to be an unfashionable one. But these young men have some of the worst life chances of any group anywhere in our country. White working-class boys massively underperform at every stage of the education system. Ideas like toxic masculinity, white privilege, they are, I would suggest, incredibly unhelpful terms. And the last thing I think these kids really need is another reason to feel bad about who they are. In June, a parliamentary committee even released a report claiming that terms such as white privilege have contributed to the disadvantage of white children who are eligible for free school meals. So is this all true? Well, the answer is a bit of yes and a bit of that's bullshit. It's true that white British children eligible for free school meals make up the largest disadvantaged group. But that's also because we live in a white majority country. 14% of white British children are eligible for free school meals. But that goes up to 21% for Pakistani children, 26% for Bangladeshi children, 28% for black Caribbean children, and 37% for Gypsy or Roma children. And free school meals aren't the only way to measure deprivation. If we're looking at the poverty line, 47% of black children, 54% of Pakistani children, and 60% of Bangladeshi children live below it compared to 23% of white children. So while most poor children in the UK are white British, a child is more likely to live in poverty if they're from a number of ethnic minority backgrounds. And yes, it's true that white British children eligible for free school meals are slightly less likely to get passing grades than some other ethnic groups who are also on free school meals. But when you broaden outside of free school meals, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, and black Caribbean students of all genders and black African boys are less likely to meet the government's GCSE benchmark than their white British peers. Now, this isn't about playing oppression Olympics or even saying that class is secondary to race. It's saying that it doesn't make sense to pit deprived children against each other to compete for resources when across every single ethnic group, kids who are eligible for free school meals do worse than children from wealthier backgrounds. So white working class children aren't disadvantaged by their race. They're disadvantaged by the same economic inequalities that hold back working class kids from ethnic minority backgrounds. The irony is that by talking about the white working class, you haven't actually rejected identity politics. You've made it even more dominant by saying you can only look at class inequalities through the lens of race. It's not race or class. It's race and class. On working class men, Mr. Johnson, you said they're likely to be drunk, criminal, aimless, feckless, and hopeless, and perhaps claiming to suffer from low self-esteem brought on by unemployment. On single mothers, they're uppity, which is a word with its own issues and irresponsible, and on their children, their ill-raised, ignorant, aggressive, and illegitimate. You've dismissed quite a chunk of the electorate there, Prime Minister, haven't you? You know what's real classy? 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