Comments on: Margaret Thatcher’s Top Five China Moments http://beijingcream.com/2013/04/margaret-thatchers-top-five-china-moments/ A Dollop of China Tue, 22 Jan 2019 17:42:34 +0000 hourly 1 By: George Emsden http://beijingcream.com/2013/04/margaret-thatchers-top-five-china-moments/#comment-220092 Fri, 12 Apr 2013 17:58:26 +0000 http://beijingcream.com/?p=11556#comment-220092 Lost in Translation?

It was the Poll Tax that led to riots. UK has never had a flat tax.

“The introduction of a controversial flat tax in 1989 that was said to disproportionately affect the working class later led to localized rioting at the end of her tenure as Prime Minister.”

An earlier Poll Tax in 1381 caused riots too

]]> By: terroir http://beijingcream.com/2013/04/margaret-thatchers-top-five-china-moments/#comment-219740 Wed, 10 Apr 2013 07:11:08 +0000 http://beijingcream.com/?p=11556#comment-219740 For all those things, it’s her fall that is most memorable for the current generation because a video of it is being promoted upon Chinese news portals. It was big on teh Chinese internets yesterday.

http://sinopathic.com/margaret-thatcher-passes-away-commemorated-in-china-in-falling-down-video/

]]> By: Anthony Tao http://beijingcream.com/2013/04/margaret-thatchers-top-five-china-moments/#comment-219682 Tue, 09 Apr 2013 05:18:05 +0000 http://beijingcream.com/?p=11556#comment-219682 Thanks, fixed.

]]> By: RhZ http://beijingcream.com/2013/04/margaret-thatchers-top-five-china-moments/#comment-219679 Tue, 09 Apr 2013 04:10:23 +0000 http://beijingcream.com/?p=11556#comment-219679 Divisive not decisive.

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