Diesel scrappage scheme announcement TODAY
"Under the proposed scheme drivers of old ‘dirty’ diesel cars would be offered £2,000 compensation to ditch their vehicle"
So you can buy a used diesel for say £1000 and be paid £2000 to scrap it?
Count me in 
Oh no... poor old Geoffrey 
National grid in desperate need of upgrades to support electric cars, but, this "scrappage scheme could be capped at £500million", so, instead of putting that money into upgrading the grid to support electric boogaloos, they'd rather piddle it away on a scheme to send cars abroad on heavy oil-burning ships to be cut up, melted down and turned into bean cans, producing far more pollution than the cars themselves would have ever caused in their lifetimes...
What planet do these political parasites live on exactly?? 
It does seem to me that whatever methods we use to cut back on the filth we are all responsible for, somebody somewhere will object to it.
Are we talking about diesel scrappage or web monitoring? 
You took me seriously! 
As far as I can see the paper that's been released today is just a consultation document, not regulation to be brought in.
"In its technical documents supporting the plan, modellers estimate that such a scheme could take 15,000 diesel and older petrol cars off the road.
"Under this scheme, 15,000 Euro 1-5 diesel cars/Euro 1-3 petrol cars are replaced with electric cars. The grant level that has been assumed for this option is £8,000," the documentation states.
The suggestion is that a scheme could be brought in within two years".
So that just leaves around 30 million diesel trucks, vans and buses on the roads. Destined to be a great success! 
There just ain't enough roobarb about to cope with it! 