Chris

I'm clever enough to see that you're talking a pile of old cobblers. Just because they eventually got their money back off you, it does not follow that it was not the 3 million defaulters who eventually brought about the end of the Poll Tax.

The administrative cost of chasing people through the courts to pay the tax was vast, and unlike the riots, defaulting was far easier for larger numbers of protesters to maintain over the long term.

But if you're clever enough to know different, how about you post a convincing argument that it was the riots that ended the tax? By convincing argument, I mean something more substantial than you simply saying that was the way it was and expecting people to just accept it.