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Toby Young resigns as May's universities adviser over 'ill-judged' sexist tweets https://t.co/sZbBp9VB3i pic.twitter.com/oFcKOcvje9

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MattW

Well. First.

The claims in the petition about his "caustic observations about working class students at Oxford" were at best misleading, and worst a lie.

This is what he was quoted as saying in the Indy:

"Writing about class in a 1988 book called The Oxford Myth, Young recounted how the arrival of “stains” – as working-class students were known – had changed the university. “It was as if all the meritocratic fantasies of every 1960s educationalist had come true and all Harold Wilson’s children had been let in at the gate,” he wrote."
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/toby-young-free-school-pioneer-described-working-class-grammar-school-boys-at-oxford-as-universally-10517380.html

which for the petition became:

Young also once referred to state school undergraduates at Oxford and Cambridge as "stains".
https://www.change.org/p/theresa-may-mp-sack-toby-young-from-university-watchdog-post

Young is recounting a feature of the time, and it has been turned into a personally created insult.

Politics now.