‘Nobody takes up our cause!’ Academic reacts as it is revealed white students are least likely to sit GCSEs

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'I get really emotional about this. I really, really do,' GB News host Martin Daubney admitted

Academic Dr Lisa McKenzie has reacted after it was revealed that white students were the least likely to sit GCSEs.

Speaking to GB News, the University of Bedfordshire lecturer and class expert despaired that “nobody is taking up our cause” as one in 30 white children failed to earn a single qualification in England.

“Every time there's any sort of report at all about what is happening to white working class students and white working class people in general, it's always negative,” Dr McKenzie began.

“White working class people are at the bottom of every table when it comes to education.

“They're also falling to the bottom of the tables regarding employment as well,” she said.

“It appears that no one is taking up our cause. Nobody,” the academic despaired.

“Nobody takes up our calls. Nobody's on Twitter. Nobody's on social media saying: ‘You know what's really out of order is that all these white working class young people are going to university.

“You know who are really not represented? It's the white working class. No one's really saying that, are they?”

“I get really emotional about this. I really, really do,” GB News host Martin Daubney admitted.

“I was one of these kids. You were one of these kids,” he said, reflecting on the lack of opportunities for young Britons.

“If you look at what Cambridge is doing, they have had a very successful DEI program over the last 6 or 7 years where they've got a very high number now of black and Asian students,” Dr McKenzie responded.

“This is very overrepresented compared to the country. And yet I don't know of one program, not one in the whole of the university sector, that actually is there for white working-class people. I don't know one.

“At elite universities, white working-class people like me and you are actually the real minority. We’re rarer than hen's teeth at the elite universities.

“I've worked in universities for 20 years now. I've seen programs for refugees. I've seen programs for ethnic minority groups. I've even seen programs for travellers.

“This story that you and I were talking about for at least 15 years now,” she stressed.