THE Scottish National Party, which led the battle against the poll tax
on people, yesterday backed demands for a poll tax on deer.
In an attack on estate landowners, the conference heard a call for the
Land Commission to set a quota for each estate with any excess deer
''charged a deer poll tax.''
Mr Charles Douglas, of Glenkens branch, said there were only two ways
of making estate owners do anything -- either bribe them
or punish them financially.
He said: ''I believe you have to take a tough line with them. I am fed
up with handouts going to landowners to do something they should be
doing anyway.''
He called for the deer poll tax to be set around #1000 a deer,
claiming that the benefit of this system over the human poll tax was
that it would be levied on people who could afford it.
He added: ''I would gladly see them bankrupted or the estates closed
down if they failed to pay up.''
Dr Malcolm Kerr, Isle of Arran, said: ''People who wear tweeds and
carry guns are parasites.''
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