Originally Posted by
Sgt. Pepper
Apparently you have deliberately missed the obvious point that was made.
The point is - how can Wales be compared with England? Overall they almost certainly very different, socially, economically, demographics, communications, average earnings, health, wealth etc etc etc..
Now if you compared Wales with a combined area of 'similar-to-Wales' counties - say Derbyshire, Yorkshire, Tyne & Wear and Cumbria, you might get a very different set of results. We might not look so 'behind' after all.
Now lets compare both of those with say : Berkshire, Hertfordshire, Sussex and Surrey...
Again, I don't want to defend poor Education standards - not in Wales, nor anywhere!
It is frustrating to see yet more Wales bashing after employing the usual wholly inaccurate 'comparison' model.