Disclaimer I could be completely wrong here
But wasn't VAT introduced to help fund the Crimean War? (or something similar)

Edit sorry that was Income tax and Napoleonic war (I was pretty far from the mark there)
(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Wed 26 Jun 2013, 10:16, 1 reply, 12 years ago)

You're thinking of income tax
and the Napoleonic wars.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Wed 26 Jun 2013, 10:19, Reply)

And I'm thinking of Andrew Marr, apparently.

( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Wed 26 Jun 2013, 10:20, Reply)

still its early eh

(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Wed 26 Jun 2013, 10:22, Reply)

I think you're thinking of carpet tacks
and the geordie wor.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 26 Jun 2013, 10:24, Reply)