What she said: Editor's blog

Get the facts right 22/02/2010

I'm going back onto my soapbox about the boiler scrappage scheme again. Bear with me, but there's been quite a lot of misinformation about it and I want to let off some steam.

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A real opportunity for merchants 13/01/2010

So we got the boiler scrappage scheme in England. And judging by the rumours circulating around Twitter and the industry, we might be getting something similar for Wales and Scotland. Hurrah.

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Too little, too late 16/12/2009

As usual it seems, Chancellor Darling's last Pre-Budget Report for this Parliament (possibly ever), was a mixed bag full of , well, not very much. I suppose you could call it another curate's egg.

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We did it! 09/12/2009

Whoo Hoo! Permit me, if you will, to gloat, just a little over the fact that there will apparently be an announcement in the PreBudget Report later today of a Boiler Scrappage Scheme.

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Don't forget about us! 10/09/2009

After the initial euphoria and excitement which I'm afraid I always get when I see someone I know on the telly, it struck me that the BBC TV programme in which PTS md Alan Ball appeared promoting the Boiler Scrappage Scheme fell prey...

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Coming to the boil 19/08/2009

At the risk of repeating myself from last week, it looks as though the idea of the scrappage scheme has caught the imagination.

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Boiler petition: sign up now 11/08/2009

At the risk of repeating myself from last week, it looks as though the idea of the scrappage scheme has caught the imagination.

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What we said: other entries from the blogosphere

Blog of Mick Williams who started the campaign: tradeonly.blogspot.com

Entry from BHL, plumbing suppliers:
- Boiler Scrappage Scheme

Entry from Baxi:
- Boiler scrappage scheme

Our Production Editor, Ellie Dawes blogs about the scheme on environmental website edie.net:
- Bolier Scrappage scheme- campaign gains more momentum
- A boost to builders AND good news for the environment! Who loses?

Gisela Stuart MP explains the scheme for her constituents
- Government Boiler Scrappage Scheme

David Naylor describes the scheme as a 'gimmick':
- davidnaylor.co.uk

Top quotes

"It's just the way the whole distribution sector is ignored that gets my goat.

It was the same at the beginning of the Get Britain Building Campaign, where, despite all the tremendous efforts put in by the BMF, you rather got the impression that most people thought it was just about the guys on the building sites."
- Fiona Russell Horne

"I have noticed that, as well as Climate Change increasingly dominating the headlines, there appears to be a growing number of people who are doubting that man's carbon dioxide emissions are likely to have a significant effect.

Being a curious sort of fellow, I searched the internet for proof, one way or the other. I sort of wish that I hadn't bothered."
- Mick Williams

"From pervious experience of No 10 petitions, to get the attention of our immoral, money grabbing lords and masters, there needs to be several tens of thousands of signatures, so the industry needs to get its finger out of its rear end on this one."
- John Cameron

"IMO what the government should have done is looked at scaling the grants on household income."
- David Naylor

"We have been told by a plumber the required new boilers to fit are brands Worcester and Vailant and these cost £800 more than the one he was going to fit, a Biasi, which is also 'A' rated. So it doesn’t look as though there is any saving."
- Becca, commenting on David Naylor's blog

"People over 60 can apply for the scheme regardless of whether the boiler they are scrapping is in working order."
- Gisela Stuart MP

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