Those who regarded the poll tax as an evil abomination will, equally, neither forgive nor forget.
Christine Blower, the NUT's general secretary, said Mr Gove could soon face his "poll tax moment".
And Labour's Baroness Hollis of Heigham warned the move risked a "repeat of the poll tax".
Take the council elections of 1990, at the height of the row over the poll tax.
And although he was at first sympathetic to the hugely controversial "poll tax", he became a strong opponent.
Despite his distinctly un-Thatcherite views, he pushed along some of her most controversial legislation - including the poll tax.
Lady Hollis warned that changes to the system of paying council tax benefit risked a "poll tax mark two".
He also rejected comparisons with the poll tax, saying "we have moved on somewhat with the system since then".
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Whatever the policy merits of her "poll tax, " its implementation was badly handled and ultimately led to her political downfall.
Margaret Thatcher paid dear for her decision to replace domestic rates based on property values with the reviled poll tax.
You've got to find a greater consensus than we've got at the moment and poll tax certainly taught us that.
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Now, he says the poll tax riots seem less significant after violence at last year's G20 summit left a man dead.
Like Blair, Thatcher's popularity waned, in part because of her determination to introduce the community charge, or "poll tax" as it became known.
She added to that an unpopular poll tax, which she clung to obstinately when her MPs knew it was putting their seats in peril.
He said he joined the Labour Party "to make a difference", but by 1989 he had been expelled for his high-profile stance against the poll tax.
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The second is some policy or political blunder, such as the Tories' bungling of Suez in the 1950s or the poll tax in the late 1980s.
At second reading Labour's John Healey, a former local government minister, described the legislation as the "most fundamental change in local government funding since the poll tax".
John Healey, who served as a local government minister under Gordon Brown, described the legislation as the "most fundamental change in local government funding since the poll tax".
We switched on poll tax to each individual payment because people were saying a lot of people in a house, a lot of them weren't paying the rates.
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Margaret Thatcher tried out her hated poll tax there and that, plus the impact of privatisation and union-bashing on Scotland's industrial economy, turned off voters north of the border.
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They remember the Poll Tax - and they also know that local taxation raises a relatively low proportion of council funding but provokes a huge degree of voter ire.
"Like the poll tax, it is a big change being forced through too fast and, like the poll tax, there is not a consensus of support behind it, " he concluded.
He said she was "fortunate in her enemies" in the likes of Arthur Scargill, the miners' leader, while her "judgement wasn't fully working" in bringing in policies like the poll tax.
Moreover, Mr Major also inherited the poll tax, the product of his predecessor's attempt to reform local-government finance, which had young rebels on the streets and old rebels deserting the Conservatives in droves.
By the late 1980s an increasingly strident Margaret Thatcher was beginning to be seen as an electoral liability by her colleagues - with policies like the poll tax causing the party to haemorrhage support.
It was a pattern which Sheridan would repeat many times - serving jail terms for refusing to pay the poll tax and a fine after taking part in blockades at Faslane nuclear submarine base.
The test - most commentators agreed - would come when he was forced to decide the future of the community charge, or poll tax - the policy that had brought ruin to his predecessor.
One of her first actions was to introduce the poll tax or community charge, a flat-rate tax for local services which was based on individuals rather than the value of the property in which they lived.
The change in law must be publicised, IDs must be given free to any who ask for them (otherwise the law would indeed constitute a poll tax, which is unconstitutional in the context of voting) and workers must be trained.
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