Mr McConnell said the poll tax was one of the worst policies imposed by the Tories on Scotland.
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Those who regarded the poll tax as an evil abomination will, equally, neither forgive nor forget.
That the poll tax was tried out in Scotland as some form of gruesome experiment.
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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Today's DiYists are natural heirs of the 1960s Berkeley radicals and the more violent anti-poll tax protesters in 1980s Britain.
Now, he says the poll tax riots seem less significant after violence at last year's G20 summit left a man dead.
Anyway you slice it, requiring people to invest so much time to cast their vote amounts to a poll tax pure and simple.
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.
The effigy was paraded around the square, which in 1990 was the scene of rioting against a hugely unpopular "poll tax" introduced by Thatcher.
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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Scots preserve strong memories of Margaret Thatcher's era, when coal mines, steelworks and shipyards closed, pushing up unemployment, and an unpopular local poll tax was tested.
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".
North Carolina Democrats began passing a flurry of Jim Crow laws in 1899, and new voting restrictions further disenfranchised blacks through a poll tax and literacy test.
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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It was a time of great political ferment - the controversy over the poll tax, the splits within the Conservative Party over Europe, the downfall of Margaret Thatcher.
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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However, the sight of prisoners "capering around" on the roof, having taken control of the jail, stayed with him much longer than the poll tax trouble, the peer adds.
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