Labour destroyed Wales. Now it’s working on | European Markets

They claimed the previous Tory PM used Scotland to check out her most controversial insurance policies, just like the ballot tax. These days, Wales has been serving the identical function – however not for the Tories.

As an alternative, the devolved Welsh parliament has been the testbed for Labour’s crankiest concepts.

Having wreaked havoc, Labour is making use of its failed experiments to Scotland and England too. It is going to be horrible.

Take schooling. In Wales, Labour scrapped national exams, dumbed down the curriculum and prioritised ideology over literacy and numeracy.

Welsh youngsters now path their English friends in worldwide Pisa rankings – even when poverty is accounted for.

Scotland as soon as boasted one of the world’s best schooling systems. Its youngsters at the moment are plunging down the Pisa rankings too, forcing universities to offer remedial programs simply to get college students up to hurry.

That is down to the Scottish Nationwide Social gathering (SNP), which pursued equally “dumb and regressive” insurance policies to Welsh Labour.

On the identical time, English schooling has drastically improved.

Reforms began by Tory PM John Main, continued by Labour’s Tony Blair and expanded by the Tories’ Michael Gove have remodeled colleges.

Whereas Welsh and Scottish requirements slid, English pupils soared up the Pisa rankings.

Militant instructing unions blocked these reforms at each flip. Now Labour is caving into their calls for.

Training Secretary Bridget Phillipson has blocked new free colleges, undermined Ofsted inspections and made excluding disruptive pupils more durable.

She’s even railed towards what she calls the “obsession with educational achievement”.

That’s right. The woman in charge of our national curriculum scorns “educational achievement”.

Thanks to Phillipson, academic achievement in England will soon start falling as fast as it has in Wales and Scotland. Another generation failed.

The Tories didn’t get much else right but devolved Labour has made an even bigger mess of Wales.

Former First Minister Mark Drakeford embraced every cranky left-wing cause going: a four-day public sector week, universal basic income, gender ID policies and hated 20mph speed limits. Wales also has the UK’s highest unemployment rate.

Drakeford was ousted last March, but Labour councils still push anti-car measures, overburden businesses with taxes and indulge every eco-fantasy.

Voters have had enough. Former Welsh Labour minister Eluned Morgan admits the party faces a “kicking” in next year’s Welsh parliamentary election.

Reform UK, bolstered by Nigel Farage, is surging.

Labour clawed back 36 seats from the SNP at last year’s general election, but it wouldn’t win them today.

Scots are furious over Chancellor Rachel Reeves’s treatment of the Winter Fuel Payment, employer’s national insurance hikes and her assault on small businesses.

Mostly, they’re raging at Energy Secretary Ed Miliband. North Sea oil and gas reserves are naturally dwindling, but he’s speeding up the process.

Last year, Aberdeen and Grampian Chambers of Commerce warned the Government had “100 days to save 100,000 jobs in the North Sea”.

Miliband has spent that time destroying as many of these jobs as he can, by shuttering completely viable oil fields together with the most important of all. The Grangemouth refinery has gone too.

Oil metropolis Aberdeen is in speedy decline and all Miliband has achieved is obtainable a sop within the form of his sketchy £8billion Nice British Power quango.

Labour guarantees growth however its file in Wales tells the true story: increased taxes, crumbling public providers, ideological insanity and financial stagnation.

Now its blueprint for decline is being rolled out throughout the remaining of the UK. The outcomes would be the identical, however not like the Welsh, voters can’t do something about it till 2029.