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by ben_w 674 days ago
> You'd be surprised, I'm sure a human that is proposing this, and is in politics, would do everything in their power to shed responsibility for bad actions and take responsibility for all the good stuff.

I'm from the UK, my best example of this is from 2001, when the Conservative Party started running campaign posters saying "You paid the tax so where are the trains?" despite being responsible for the privatisation of the trains before they lost power.

https://www.alamy.com/one-of-posters-from-the-conservative-p...

https://archives.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/repositories/2/archival_o...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privatisation_of_British_Rail