re: #378 Kosh’s Shadow

Great. They’ll probably say anyone with an old car has to buy a new one, and mine are 13 and 10 years old. They’re still cheaper to maintain than to replace.

Don’t think this couldn’t happen!
Our NuLab government has seriously proposed somethign called ‘scrappage’. They proposed to give everybody a nice handout of 2000 if they traded in their old car and bought a new one.

The gales of laughter and howls of outrage in the readers’ comments pages of the MFM made them retire that proposal pdq …

Politicians simply are not just dumb as shit, they live in a world totally unrelated to what is known as ‘normal life’.