Nodder/Fixie Skidder

to be completely honest in regards to cycle safety and training as much as we promote new cyclists, green environment blah blah blah it is never going to work without a decent road infrastructure with thought put towards cyclists and standardized cycle training unlike the joke that is cycle proficiency

Cycle proficiency doesn't really exist anymore; training is pretty much standardised now to the National Standards and through the Bikeability scheme.
And Hippy, to a point I would agree with you; twenty years of cycling probably has made you a very competent cyclist; though that's not always the case with experienced riders as we can observe every day on the roads. But there are many people who are simply put off cycling by, largely unwarranted, fears and training can help them. And it certainly can't do any harm to give training to children who's entire experience of cycling will be on fairly busy roads in London. Then there are people who have never cycled at all, people who have problems with certain aspects of cycling and need specific help and encouragement etc etc. I'm pretty sure I have spent more hours, and done more miles, cycling in London than anyone else on here and I still got something out of training. You are never too old, experienced or fat to learn.