When the Colonists revolted against tea taxes it led to independance.
When the UK revolted against fuel taxes... they gave up after just a few
days.
Suzie
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> *** Blair rejects tax concessions
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> LONDON (AP) - Britons awoke Thursday to eerily empty roads, depleted
> supermarket shelves - and troops on standby, a sign of Prime Minister
> Tony Blair's hardened resolve not to give in to protesters angry over
> high fuel taxes. Blair said "lives are at risk" from the protesters,
> whose weeklong demonstrations outside fuel depots and refineries have
> left gasoline pumps bone-dry and disrupted schools, hospitals,
> businesses and transportation across Britain. But in a sign the
> crisis may be winding down, a key group of protesters announced
> Thursday morning it was ending its refinery picket. "We have backed
> down. We have won the moral issue," said Brynle Williams, spokesman
> for protesters at the Stanlow refinery in northwest England. He
> called on other demonstrators across the country to end their pickets
> and join in a national campaign for a cut in the fuel tax. Soon
> after, picketers at Grangemouth in Scotland and Cardiff in Wales
> announced that they, too, would cease their actions. See
> http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2569746404-68c
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