A Government Failure?

In the current climate there has been a lot of speculation as to how effective the governments few month old scrappage scheme has been. Has it been as effective as it could have been? Has the money offered for used vans been effective?

I decided to contact my local van dealership located on an industrial estate. A brief transcrift below.

Me: Hello, How successful in your terms have the recent introduction of the scrappage scheme been?

Dealer: Not Very, We have had interest, but it has not correlated into sales, we have had exactly 1 sale in the time since the introduction.

Of course the demographic I have used has been my local area.

It is interesting to see that infact for the area around me it seems to have been fairly unsuccessful.