Inconvenient consequences of the Car Scrappage scheme

Their Joking Aren't They identifies the problems and unintended consequences of the Car Scrappage scheme. Here's a few:

"which groups might have slipped on Gordon’s banana skin in this one.


# Below average wage couples and singles who need cheapish and reliable transport to find and hold down jobs not on bus routes.


# Formerly unemployed individuals who are offered jobs contingent on their having a car such as: many sales staff; fast food industry employees; everyone who works beyond three miles from a town or city, and public and private care and health workers.

Such as nurses.


# Single mothers with enough integrity and grit to seek work long before the benefits gravy train leaves the station.


#Newly qualified teachers without rich parents but in possession of large student debts who need to live away from the Escape From New York schools they find work in.


# Young men straight from school or sixth-form college with the gumption to seek and find work but whose bosses lack the foresight and central planning wisdom of Gordon Brown to build their premises within walking distance of said lads’ homes.


So that’s social mobility - as well as the other kind - on the scrap heap along with the Northwester Porsche and many chances of a bottom-up economic recovery.


Let’s hope that regional Nissan dealers’ wives hire a lot of domestic staff, eh, Mister Brown?"

He's right, it hurt me to scrap a perfectly good, reliable and fun to drive second car but the deal made sense.