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Talk:Ratepayers

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I was a little unsure what to call this article. There's a number of related topics some or all of which could be discussed here.

  • "Rates", a form of property tax.
  • The mid-1970s "ratepayers movement" (as nobody seems to call it) which campaigned specifically for rates reductions in the UK.
  • The wider radical-right proto-Thatcherite UK movement which most of the article is about, which included a number of organisations, not all of which were directly about rates.
  • The continuing presence of "ratepayers", "ratepayers party", "ratepayers movement", "residents association", "tenants and ratepayers", etc, on UK ballot papers: there's no formal party structure encompassing them all, but it's a long-lasting trend of mostly right-wing/conservative candidates. It is discussed in the article section on electoral performance, and it's probably good to have an article on a term that appears in so many British elections, although it's of peripheral relevance. Annquin (talk) 13:14, 5 May 2016 (UTC)