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"PAY NO POLL TAX" and, by extension, "PAY NO GRAVY TAX!" reference the Community Charge, a controversial policy of the Thatcher administration that resulted in her 1990 resignation following widespread protests (it was ultimately replaced by the Council Tax three years later). Meanwhile, "DING DONG THE WITCH IS DEAD!" references a campaign by anti-Thatcherites following her death in 2013 to inflate the chart position of "Ding-Dong! The Witch Is Dead", a song from the 1939 film adaptation of The Wizard of Oz, under the pretense that the BBC would be forced to play it over the radio. The network ultimately compromised by including a brief snippet in a news report about the campaign. The presence of both references ties in with the game's setting in Northern England, where anti-Thatcherism is particularly pronounced.
In-game footage:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PDQpZlzbHM#t=3656s
Article about the Community Charge and Council Tax:
https://web.archive.org/web/20240619051816/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/8370222/Local-government-funding-timeline-From-rates-to-poll-tax-to-council-tax.html
Articles about the "Ding-Dong! The Witch Is Dead" campaign:
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-22145306
https://web.archive.org/web/20161207233025/https://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/apr/09/anti-thatcher-sentiment-singles-charts
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/apr/10/thatcher-death-ding-dong-witch
https://web.archive.org/web/20130414113143/http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/aboutthebbc/posts/Statement-regarding-Radio-1s-Chart-Show-14-April-2013
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PDQpZlzbHM#t=3656s
Article about the Community Charge and Council Tax:
https://web.archive.org/web/20240619051816/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/8370222/Local-government-funding-timeline-From-rates-to-poll-tax-to-council-tax.html
Articles about the "Ding-Dong! The Witch Is Dead" campaign:
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-22145306
https://web.archive.org/web/20161207233025/https://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/apr/09/anti-thatcher-sentiment-singles-charts
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/apr/10/thatcher-death-ding-dong-witch
https://web.archive.org/web/20130414113143/http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/aboutthebbc/posts/Statement-regarding-Radio-1s-Chart-Show-14-April-2013
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Barnsworth, the game's setting, is loosely based on Barnsley, a market town in South Yorkshire, England and the hometown of the game's developers Coal Supper.
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