Quote Originally Posted by Sgt. Pepper View Post
I've said the same so many times, wherever 'Wales' is compared with 'England'.
I wouldn't want to defend poor standards in Education, nor failing NHS performance targets etc, etc, but the England/Wales comparison is clearly not like-for-like.
Yet political mileage is wrung from it.
I'm not sure why people want to compare it with any other country, the point was, education standards are failing in Wales and that's concerning, I have no idea why the usual suspects think that spending vast amounts of money are the answer to teaching children to add up and take away, reed and rite and actually turn up for school.