Link to petition AGAINST the car scrappage scheme

[stewartcampbell]

If you are against this scheme to offer owners of cars over 9 years old £2000 towards the cost of a new car to scrap their old one sign this.
http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/No-to-Scrappage/#...

[stewartcampbell]

NiceCupOfTea said:

qazfghjplm said:

(Genuine Question) - Could someone explain why this is a bad "scheme"?

• it will result in a lot of perfectly good useable cars (and future classics) being scrapped needlessly

• it will cost the taxpayer a fortune

• it will make it impossible to buy a car for less than £2000 - why sell it when you could trade it in to be scrapped more easily?

• it will make it impossible to find spares for the remaining older cars on the road as so many will have been scrapped

• many interesting and rare cars will simply die out as people scrap them to make way for something boring

• a lot of independant specialists who work on older cars will go to the wall (and other related companies making legacy parts and providing services)

• it will create more debt as people with perfectly good paid for older cars scrap them and turn up at dealers with a £2k cheque ready to sign on the dotted line for finance for the other 10k for a poverty spec Kia

• on an esoteric note it will mean the roads will be an even duller place than now with tedious modern ecoboxes everywhere

• doing it for environmental reasons is a joke - is it better to run a 20 year old car, or destroy it (creating pollution) and build a new car (creating pollution), repeating every 3 or 4 years?

It is an absolute joke, being pushed through by car manufacturers (surprise surprise, what benefit would it have for them!?) and others who would benefit from this (Certain car magazine owning media groups that benefit from advertising and new car sales, perchance?) - and come election time all Joe "idiot" Public will remember is that nice Mr.Brown giving him a cheque for £2k (whilst forgetting the extra £2k he will have had to pay in tax). I wonder why the government want to push this through as well?

Edited by NiceCupOfTea on Friday 3rd April 21:26

Exactly it

[stewartcampbell]

Well have managed to add 21 signatures in the last few hours so quite a few people dissagree with this scheme.