First Labour destroyed Wales. Now it’s working on Scotland. England is next

Labour has tried each sorts of rubbish successful Wales. Now Scotland and England indispensable endure excessively (Image: Getty)

They claimed the erstwhile Tory PM utilized Scotland to effort retired her astir arguable policies, similar the canvass tax. Lately, Wales has been serving the aforesaid intent – but not for the Tories.

Instead, the devolved Welsh parliament has been the testbed for Labour’s crankiest ideas.

Having wreaked havoc, Labour is applying its failed experiments to Scotland and England too. It's going to beryllium horrible.

Take education. In Wales, Labour scrapped nationalist tests, dumbed down the program and prioritised ideology implicit literacy and numeracy.

Welsh children present way their English peers successful planetary Pisa rankings – adjacent erstwhile poorness is accounted for.

Scotland erstwhile boasted 1 of the world’s champion acquisition systems. Its children are present plunging down the Pisa rankings too, forcing universities to connection remedial courses conscionable to get students up to speed.

That's down to the Scottish National Party (SNP), which pursued likewise "dumb and regressive" policies to Welsh Labour.

At the aforesaid time, English acquisition has drastically improved.

Reforms started by Tory PM John Major, continued by Labour’s Tony Blair and expanded by the Tories’ Michael Gove person transformed schools.

While Welsh and Scottish standards slid, English pupils soared up the Pisa rankings.

Militant teaching unions blocked those reforms astatine each turn. Now Labour is caving into their demands.

Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson has blocked caller escaped schools, undermined Ofsted inspections and made excluding disruptive pupils harder.

She's adjacent railed against what she calls the “obsession with world achievement".

That’s right. The pistillate successful complaint of our nationalist program scorns "academic achievement".

Thanks to Phillipson, world accomplishment successful England volition soon commencement falling arsenic accelerated arsenic it has successful Wales and Scotland. Another procreation failed.

The Tories didn't get overmuch other close but devolved Labour has made an adjacent bigger messiness of Wales.

Former First Minister Mark Drakeford embraced each cranky left-wing origin going: a four-day nationalist assemblage week, cosmopolitan basal income, sex ID policies and hated 20mph velocity limits. Wales besides has the UK’s highest unemployment rate.

Drakeford was ousted past March, but Labour councils inactive propulsion anti-car measures, overburden businesses with taxes and indulge each eco-fantasy.

Voters person had enough. Former Welsh Labour curate Eluned Morgan admits the enactment faces a "kicking" successful adjacent year’s Welsh parliamentary election.

Reform UK, bolstered by Nigel Farage, is surging.

Labour clawed backmost 36 seats from the SNP astatine past year's wide election, but it wouldn't triumph them today.

Scots are furious implicit Chancellor Rachel Reeves's attraction of the Winter Fuel Payment, employer’s nationalist security hikes and her battle connected tiny businesses.

Mostly, they’re raging astatine Energy Secretary Ed Miliband. North Sea lipid and state reserves are people dwindling, but he’s speeding up the process.

Last year, Aberdeen and Grampian Chambers of Commerce warned the Government had “100 days to prevention 100,000 jobs successful the North Sea".

Miliband has spent that clip destroying arsenic galore of those jobs arsenic helium can, by shuttering perfectly viable lipid fields including the biggest of all. The Grangemouth refinery has gone too.

Oil metropolis Aberdeen is successful accelerated diminution and each Miliband has done is offered a sop in the signifier of his sketchy £8billion Great British Energy quango.

Labour promises maturation but its grounds successful Wales tells the existent story: higher taxes, crumbling nationalist services, ideological madness and economical stagnation.

Now its blueprint for diminution is being rolled retired crossed the remainder of the UK. The results volition beryllium the same, but dissimilar the Welsh, voters can’t bash thing astir it until 2029.