zokes - do you drive? Are you a vegetarian? Would you particularly care if a major employer in your region dissapeared... for good!
Yes, I drive, but as we both commute by bikle, we have one reasonably economical car for the weekend. No I'm not vegetarian, and I'd like to see you argue what that has to do with the price of fish, and yes, I did, when the government let Alwminiwm Mon go down the drain.
I still don't see why the car industry was a special case, especially, as I've said before, successive governments have had policies and aims for reducing car use (and presumably ownership). We only have one car as neither of us uses it to sit in a traffic jam.
The govt have conflicting interests and aims. This is not TSY's fault
Nope, but its his fault that he can't articulate why the car industry was such a special case, especially as the mechanism used for its rescue involved no guarantees on the scrappage money (or profits from it) styaying in the country, and relied on most buyers doing exactly what caused the recession in the first place - getting into more debt. With job markets full stop (and now the assault on the public sector), I don't think there are many people who could really honestly say they were at no risk whatsoever and could therefore commit to paying a car loan off. Especially if until the scrappage scheme, they'd already decided to hang on to their old car to save money.
So really, the scrappage scheme wasn't particularly well though out at all. But then this is an objective, not a subjective view on the matter.
