"The august "Times" (11 July 1984) thundered: 'Danegeld in Liverpool'.", writes Peter Taaffe in "Liverpool – A City That Dared to Fight", chapter 8, p. 151 The Poll Tax non-payment campaign has been widely credited for causing British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's downfall. The BBC, for instance, reports: "The unpopularity of the new charge led to the poll tax riots in London in March 1990 and – indirectly – to the downfall of the then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the November of the same year". The headline of this 'On this day' retrospective is "1990: One in five yet to pay poll tax" [http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/14/newsid_2495000/2495911.stm (See also Poll Tax Riots.) Peter Taaffe argues that: