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Failure in British Government: The Politics of the Poll Tax

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Checks and balances

Failure in British Government: The Politics of the Poll Tax
David Butler , Andrew Adonis , and Tony Travers
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Binding: Paperback

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Reviled by the public and disowned by most of its authors, the poll tax is the most celebrated disaster in post-war British politics. This book tells for the first time the full and gripping story of the policy that toppled the century's longest-serving Prime Minister and brought grandmothers into the streets in protest. Drawing on unique access to the often conflicting accounts of many of the leading players, the authors paint an extraordinary picture of the journey of the poll tax from conception to demise. The authors assess the light the affair casts on the workings of British government, and draw conclusions that are just as compelling as the events they describe. Looking at each of the main government institutions in turn, they show how the entire episode undermines the conventional wisdom about the workings of British government.

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Checks and balances.......1996-12-17

Failure in British Government: the Politics of the Poll Tax by David Butler, Andrew Adonis, & Tony Travers Anyone who advocates changing our system of government to a parliamentary system should read this book before he sticks his other foot in his mouth. It reads almost like one of Dr. Dörner's experiments. It is a story of how some seemingly intelligent politicos come up with an idea that can charitably be called assinine and push idea right through all the so-called checks and balances of government in order to make it policy. Neither the Opposition, the House of Lords, the Monarch, the press, nor the civil service lifted a finger to stop it. Indeed, the only opposition officially given to the poll tax was from the fringes of the far left. Nevertheless the poll tax of 1990 produced the same effects as the poll tax of 1381: riots in London (the same parts of London even), widespread tax evasion, government finances in shambols, and the end of some promising careers. "What a botch up. What a bloomer. What a gaffe, bungle, goof, fluff, fiasco, boner, clanger, howler and flop. What a fatheaded, boneheaded, dunderheaded, muttonheaded, knuckleheaded, chuckleheaded, puddingheaded, jobernowled wash-out of a cock-up," opined the editor of the Sunday Times with typical understatement. It was so awful that some of its participants defend their actions by pleading incompetence and its leader, Thatcher, still hasn't learned the lessons from the disaster. (The lesson: Progress comes not from implementing bad, old ideas but bad, new ideas.)

Failure in British Government: The Politics of the Poll Tax. (book reviews): An article from: National Tax Journal

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Failure in British Government: The Politics of the Poll Tax. (book reviews): An article from: National Tax Journal
Peter Smith
Manufacturer: National Tax Association
ProductGroup: Book
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Title: Failure in British Government: The Politics of the Poll Tax. (book reviews)
Author: Peter Smith
Publication: National Tax Journal (Refereed)
Date: June 1, 1995
Publisher: National Tax Association
Volume: 48 Issue: n2 Page: 297-300

Article Type: Book Review

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Failure in British Government : The Politics of the Poll Tax
David; Adonis, Andrew; Travers, Tony Butler
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press,
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000KPBULS

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