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Just as in the UK, our politicians, who are mainly arts graduates, with little scientific backgrounds, and often innumerate, are taking us down this same path obsessed with wind energy.

It's no good some people crying ``discrimination'' for it comes down to this: what do you want, children who are taught early to be able to hold their own with their peers in skills and knowledge or what we have now - large numbers of children leaving primary school illiterate and innumerate and entirely unable to follow a secondary school curriculum?

Here, Bernard is thrown into desperate confusion when his dodgy accountant goes on the run leaving him to fill in his tax return on his own - not so easy when you're totally innumerate.

Just as in the UK, our politicians, who are mainly arts graduates with little scientific backgrounds, and often innumerate, are taking us down this same path obsessed with wind energy.

No Government has yet been able to square ever-increasing pass rates with the large number of youngsters who are largely illiterate and innumerate when they leave school.

For decades, they've only ever put the date at the end of their tv programmes in Roman numerals, in the hope that the audience wouldn't be able to work out that they were actually watching very old repeats; but with the new millennium, even the most innumerate viewer knows that, if it doesn't say "MM," it's old.

On the secondary level, it would appear that we have pupils, they are not students, leaving school at 16, who are functionally illiterate and innumerate. Since the Labour Party have been in control in Cardiff Bay since 1997, they seem to have generations of our pupils.

There was a period when some schools appeared to accept failure, turning out illiterate or innumerate students and claiming this was an inevitable result of deprivation in the communities they served.

Kids who are so innumerate they can't calculate how many times they have been in court or how many months it is since they last went to school.

"The idea that imposing drastic cuts will improve the economy is economically illiterate and innumerate, as was discovered in the 1930s.

He stressed: 'We want to see in black and white commitments that this is the way we're going to cure half of kids leaving school having taken GCSEs who are illiterate and innumerate.'

Instead we inherited a lost generation of semi-literate, innumerate yobs - which might help explain Britain's diminishing influence on the world commercial stage in the 70s and 80s.