I don't know why Badass quoted you. There WAS, however, some assertions ( by others) in this thread, such as criminalising people "stupid enough" to want to scrap historic cars, and the theme of the petition seems to be, whatever the motivation, to prevent people scrapping them (via this scheme) and I assume, perhaps incorrectly, that that's what he meant by "dictating to".
I don't know how many people in this thread own historic cars (as defined by government) but one of them is me. The thrust of the petition is to prevent me scrappaging my car, if I want to, because THEY think it's worth saving. My view is that if they think that, they're welcome to buy it. But if they aren't oreoared to buy it, or can't afford to, then it's cheeky telling me I can't scrap it.
I don't know what Badass meant, or why he picked you to quote. But I
think he's expressing the same basic point I have before, and just did again - the car to be scrapped is the property of the scrapper and the theme of this petition is to stop them scrapping their property, if they want to.
I don't want to scrap mine, by the way, but it's neither terribly rare nor terribly valuable. I'm just fond of it
Anyway, as I said, feel free to challenge Badass,
or me, on our views on scrappage. That's what debates or for.
But not with the name-calling. THAT falls firmly under moderating jurisdiction. I'm currently on a record time since I had to suspend someone. Kindly don't ruin it.