For Immediate Release Friday 5th April 2019 PUBLIC MEETING: Poll Tax Battle Remembered – 30 Years On This week saw the 30th anniversaryof the introduction of the Poll Tax in Scotland. On 1st April 1989, Margaret Thatcher imposed one of her most immoral and onerous policies on the Scottish people; a policy that would ultimately lead to her downfall. A mass grass roots movement in opposition to her policy arose. A coordinated campaign of civil disobedience and non-payment of the tax flourished and was ultimately successful. The tax was abolished, and with it, the end of Thatcher’s premiership. A Public […]