poll tax

It will become equally contentious, and is already being described as a "poll tax on wheels" by motoring organisations.

Sir John Major today warned Universal Credit could trigger riots in the streets in a "danger" reminiscent of the Poll Tax.

Has he also forgotten that Margaret Thatcher's policies of the poll tax, which he seems to want to bring back, led to riots in cities and towns all over the country?

Thatcher was angered that Mr Major wanted to axe her most favourite policy - the Community Charge (known as the Poll Tax).

MARGARET Thatcher's flagship poll tax reforms so alarmed her ministers that one even warned it could lead to people sleeping on the streets to avoid the charge, the records reveal.

MARGARET Thatcher ignored warnings from senior Tories about bringing in the hated Poll Tax - even when told it could result in more rough sleepers.

AFORMER Welsh Secretary urged Margaret Thatcher to make the homeless pay the widely-loathed poll tax - warning that an exemption would encourage people to sleep rough, it has emerged.

Texas' four-year-old voter ID law violates the Voting Rights Act but is not a "poll tax" barred under the U.S.

On Thursday, Alex Salmond rushed to promise action to stop the pursuit of newly registered poll tax dodgers, but it remained incredible that more than two decades after the so–called community charge – universally vilified as the poll tax – was scrapped, some of Scotland's largest councils were so quick to analyse the register to find defaulters.

ANYONE who remembers the introduction of the poll tax by the Tories under the premiership of Mrs Thatcher will also remember that it caused a countrywide protest, but the bedroom tax protest has been sparse.

In a new measure branded "Poll Tax Mk 2", an estimated 1.9 million people who did not previously have to pay the tax in England, Scotland and Wales are now liable for between 10 and 30% of the bill.