"Mike Lyle" wrote in message
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Mary Fisher wrote:
"Janet Tweedy" wrote in message
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The poll tax was based on per unit of consumption, (i.e. per adult) and
that didn't go down too well!

We haven't had a poll tax for centuries!

Well, that was one in effect.

It wasn't.

The words were a successful political ploy by the then Labour party, they
took people in by it.