Off Topic Politics Thread

I'd guess you don't remember correctly as nobody under the age of 18 had to pay Community Charge or Poll tax

 

Three feet from the line, facing an open goal, goalkeeper on the floor at the edge of the box and defenders nowhere to be seen, Corbyn turns and effortlessly hoofs it the length of the pitch for an own goal.



Vin

 

He is an anti-Brexiter. People's vote asked him to write a report for them. PV took his report and then put their own bit at the end before publishing it. Twitter users assuming that the writer of the report had put these details in then started questioning him about it. He of course then tells them that he didn't write these details and PV had added it to the end of his report.

The point being that PV don't want a Norway option and so they decided to add a few porkies about what Norway gets...........like having no say over the money the EU allocates, when in fact they do have a say.

 

Maybe I was 18 then. Definitely got a letter asking for some poll tax. Its a long time ago. I remember getting the letter and remember it leaving in £19 increments.

Sounds about right because I would've been 18 in Feb 93.

 

Didn't click on it, but is that Andy Serkis?

 

Not disputing it, but the riots were in May 1989 and it was abolished in 1992 ready for the 1993/4 tax year. You turned eighteen 6 weeks before it was abolished (it had been announced a year earlier)

EDIT: Just checked (lol I wouldn't have been able to in 1989 ) and it was legislation passed just before the April 1992 General Election that should the government win (John Major did), would go into force in April 1993.

An interesting (well to me) side-note was that I think April 1992 was the year that I won the Grand National with a horse called....Party Politics I know it was from the local Ladbrokes as there was no online gambling then. I'll google that in a bit as my memory is a bit cloudy.

EDIT 2: Not that cloudy! I know I got it at 10-1 each way (I think I was done as the starting price when they were off was 14-1) on the 4th April 1992. And I googled it - it was Coral on Old Christchurch Road not Ladbrokes. Gotta love the internet.

 

Depends how deprived and desperate people become. Britain is very conservative (with a small c) so there are fewer riots but this could get close and it could be with rival groups depending on the outcome.

 

Not sure what you are saying. Are you disputing that me turning 18 in Feb 93 means that I didn't get charged poll tax for that 1-2 months (which after actually researching would be about 5 weeks until tax year 93/94 started?) I can assure you it most definitely happened, just that it being a long time ago I didn't research dates hence my first post on this theme.

And yes I remember Party Politics. I was too young for that one. (Researched to find the date )The first grand national I bet on (in Victor Chandler) was in 1994. Vic Chandler paid out top 5 and I picked 4 which finished 1st, 3rd, 5th and 6th. Only small bets because I was broke from fruit machine addiction but my 50p on Fiddler's Pike which finished 5th rewarded me with £15 in total. Most from Fiddler's Pike at 100/1 and that "rewarded" me with being able to fuel my alcohol problem for the night Happy times.

 

Last time I remember riots in London was 2011
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/20...-set-fire-barricades-death-20-year-oldrashan/

 

I'm not so sure. The usual knobheads will be out causing trouble but I can't see normal folks of the type that would have come out for the poll tax marches bothering to go down to London for anything. Silent fury these days. They'll just wear out their keyboards and phones instead.

 

No not disputing it (I said so in my post), just worked out the timeline as I thought it was abolished around 1992/3 and couldn't remember the dates

..thank god for google.

 

That was what I was alluding to earlier on before the Poll tax riots were brought up. 99.9% of the London Rioters probably didn't know what started them and they were not prolonged as the French ones are at the moment.

 

Fair enough. I originally posted without bothering to check dates. Just remembered it happening and that time of my life was pretty much just getting drunk, sleeping go to work, repeat etc. so all a bit fuzzy.

 

Yep mine is pretty much the same 25 years later....

 

No, he’s pointing out, in his politely ascerbic way, that the first PM in history to be found in Contempt of Parliament, is once again treating Parliament with contempt

 

Nowadays for non payment of council tax it's called an earnings attachment order.

 

I was caught bang to rights in the nineties for not paying 2yrs (cough) community charge while living in Bognor.

I would've paid it but as the demand letter was addressed to a Mrs not Mr, oh and they'd added an 'e' to my surname, I told 'em they were talking ****e and they buggered off.

 

Corbyn is a strange fella. He says it is the EU's fault we voted the way we did in 2016 for being (Sorry Serbs) neo-liberal.

"Jeremy Corbyn blasts 'neoliberal' EU as he calls for a socialist Europe"

https://www.politicshome.com/news/u...4/jeremy-corbyn-blasts-neoliberal-eu-he-calls