But any irony involved in a coalition government that came to power pledging to scrap identity cards introducing a system of foreign residence permits will be lost as the political parties indulge in "a race to the bottom" over immigration.
The government will scrap the funding guarantees under Labor's 2011 national health reform deal.
The book's last sequence, Lucinda's Way, is the sweetest – a fond remembrance of a lovely sounding marriage, one in which she never threw away a scrap of his writing "without kissing it first", and in which Reid, as he puts it, was "second always to you, the dashing heroine".
Which brings thoughts back to the question of why this most courteous of individuals should scrap so much.
Neil Harris's side were boosted further with the news that Birmingham had extended Rotherham's losing streak to four, winning 2-1, though it was not without a scrap at St Andrew's.
It's pleasant to fantasise that if Mirvish hadn't died in 2007, the building would never have been sold for scrap – but Ed's defining characteristic wasn't so much honesty as a hard nose.
Ukip goes a step further and wants to scrap it entirely.
We will scrap mandatory fitments of eCall and allow owners who already have eCall installed to disable it on their vehicles".
Jake Molloy, oil and gas organiser for the RMT union, said oil and gas companies had already started to make hundreds of redundancies, delay projects and scrap drilling contracts.
Ahead of the chancellor's annual Budget announcement in early 2012, letters appeared in the press demanding he scrap it.
The decision to scrap the Manchester mega-casino, accompanied by the promise to find better ways of regenerating our decaying inner cities, was a clear rejection of the market economy as the solution to all the problems of growth and renewal.
