General Discussion
If it was/is such a brilliant concept then I'll ask the obvious question. Why isn't it in practice now?
If neilh is a Thatcher hater then much as I hate to dissillusion you burneside, you need to know that he ain't alone. There are people all around this country who feel nothing but that exact and precise emotion towards her. And whilst you and others may not like that it is nontheless true.
Not popular with some? That's a bit of an understatement. Even the tories in the shires were up in arms about it. And with regard to tax - however it is collected - if we don't pay it then we don't have schools, police , armed forces, hospitals etc etc. (and btw it wasn't your posting I had in mind)
Just thought I would make that point as in the Margaret Thatcher thread there is a posting that,from the way I read it, implies the two are the same. They are not. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_Charge
@burneside : and 80s britain was better? try asking that of the millions made unemployed during that time who then got screwed by her poll tax policy. I'll lay a bet that the further north you go in this country the more she was, and still is, reviled. And note how even in death, just as in life, she is divisive.
Not ranting Paul. Just statements of fact.
and let's not forget ................ The Poll Tax
You left out that other curse of the 1980s B'nut. Mad Cow Disease.
There will be an awful lot of hypocrisy over the next few days B'nut.
If she was so fantastic then why was it the tories themselves that got rid of her back in 1990?
