BRITAINS schools are to focus on the key subjects of values, awareness and cultural identity.

Education secretary Michael Gove wants the progress of each pupil to be measured by their Britishness rather than muddying the waters with lots of complicated words and numbers.

Mr Gove insisted the countrys education system had suffered from years of left-wing, liberal dogma about values rather than focusing on the key, vocational skill of high-quality Britishness.

He said: By the age of seven a child should know how British they are and how much more British they need to be.

If they are showing good, strong Britishness then we can begin to introduce some gentle, non-distracting arithmetic.

But Mr Gove warned that children will not to be taught how to read until there had been a wide-ranging national discussion about what they should read.

He added: What’s the point of reading if you’re reading the wrong thing? Meanwhile, we’ll have millions of children reading bad books instead of learning how to be British.

A spokesman for the Confederation of British Industry, said: You do know the Germans think were a bunch of fucking idiots, dont you?