
According to this report in the Times, 20% of the adult Scots population do not have the basic literacy skills they need for their daily lives.
What it failed to mention is that at least one Scot does not have any skills in basic arithmetic.
The 13 years of the Blair/Brown era will be remembered for spin, its incompetence with our money on failed social experiments, the "dumbing down" of our society, the scandalous fall in literacy of our younger people and the disastrous erosion of our freedoms. The centre-right consensus has to keep these people out of office for a generation while they rebuild a liberal conservative society.