Sentences with phrase «tax riots»

Budget cuts could prompt mass strikes by public sector workers and protests similar to the poll tax riots of 1990, the country's top trade union warns.

Britain's trade unions are gathering in Manchester today for the annual TUC congress with the threat of the biggest mass strikes by public sector workers since the poll tax riots of 1990.

Osinbajo noted that Nigeria had experienced the Aba and Abeokuta tax riots incidentally both championed by women.

But despite my hazy memory, I think it is safe to say were MPs (and it would have to include many Labour MPs representing constituencies which voted to leave the EU) to vote against giving the government authority to invoke Article 50, the resulting conflagration would make the Poll Tax riots look like a summer picnic on Hampstead Heath.

I don't really remember the Poll Tax riots toward the tail end of Thatcher's government.

The climatic consequences of those eruptions may have helped trigger tax riots and other forms of social unrest, social scientists say.

I can still remember the miners» strikes and the poll tax riots.

So while it might be nostalgic for some to believe that the poll tax riots and civil unrest brought down the last Tory government — it's not true.

All the relevant codewords are inserted in the text, from «the lessons of the 1980s» to a dig at those nostalgics — again unnamed — who «believe that the poll tax riots and civil unrest brought down the last Tory government».

In reality the poll tax riots and such like did get Thatcher out of office because the Tories realized she'd gone to far so got shot of her.

One experienced officer claimed the violence seen outside parliament as MPs voted to back the tuition fees hike was worse than that seen in the Poll Tax riots, Sir Paul claimed.

Even with the poor court result, that makes it the most successful consumer campaign since the poll tax riots.