That was one of the proposals in last week's budget, and it’s absurd. If your car is over 10 years old, you can accept £2,000 (half of it donated by the government) to scrap it in the next year, as long as you buy a new one. It doesn’t matter if you’re scrapping a small, fuel-efficient car in order to buy a Porsche or a Range Rover, that’s fine. The taxpayer (i.e. you and me) will contribute. It also doesn’t matter if the car is made overseas, and no British manufacturer or worker (apart from the car salesman) will see any of the £2,000, that’s OK as well, you’ll still get £2,000 towards your purchase. So, against a background of concern over a) over climate change and sustainability and b) the prospects for British manufacturing and employment, we’re going to pay for the scrapping of perfectly good cars, purely because they’re more than 10 years old, and the manufacture of new cars that don’t even need to exist, where no British manufacturer or worker is going to benefit in any case. It’s a completely incoherent initiative that doesn’t make sense from any angle.