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Utswo, you obviously havent heard of the Poll Tax rebellion in the 90's? The ruling class of our country waited 600 or something years to try and introduce a poll tax again... and when they tried it in the 90's, the British people rejected it... because they felt it was fundamentally unfair that taxation had no basis on the ability to pay. The council tax is a hybrid version of poll tax, community charge and the old property rates... it is unfair, but most of all, it just goes up and up every year - every year I can remember it has gone up WAY above inflation, sometimes 5 times inflation... the government can take whatever proportion of your wages that it wants, and they can spend it however they want, if you protest you are thrown in prison... is this democracy? The unfairness of the council tax is an issue that goes beyond Blair's unpopularity, it is a tax the Conservatives have equal responsibility for historially - the fact that Blair has a very low popularity rating at the moment if just "the final straw" for a lot of people who have felt how unfair this was.
Also, on the lack of british tax protest, do you remember the fuel crisis in 2000? Maybe there was little long term impact, but for a few days at least, the government was reminded how utterly and completely powerless it is when the people find an issue and stand together on it.
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The Gospel of Thomas
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