What have the Conservatives got to be embarrassed about ?
The Conservative party has deleted all their speeches etc from 2000 - 2010 from their website and hidden everything from search engines, I wonder why ?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-24924185
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-24924185
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These sites are designed to get over current thoughts and policies, they are not designed as an archive of everything a party has ever said or done
The earliest item from the news archive on Labour's site? Ed Miliband's conference speech in 2010.
God, does this guy post on here - talk about hyperbole..:D:D
Its also full of hyperbole, they didnt 'erase it from the internet archive', they simply changed their robots.txt to stop the webcrawlers indexing the pages which deletes the archive pages by default.
I'm 63 and not involved in tech other than paying for a website for my own business and I can manage to understand that, what the hell is the author on an actual tech website doing writing such nonsense.
I'd also think the answer as to why they removed them was the obvious contradictions in what they are doing since taking office and what cameron and osbourne were saying for the preceding 5 years.
Which is likely the same reason labour removed theirs.
In short, politicians are duplicitous scumbags who think everyone has short memories and removing the lies and bullcrap means they can get away with more.
Its not news, and the story itself, as I said, is misleading.
But of course, that would require politicians prepared to use evidence not ideology to make decisions.
Many people knew what they were really like and what they were really up to.
transparency"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/david-cameron/8621560/David-Cameron-We-are-creating-a-new-era-of-transparency.html
Maybe you should have asked the question at the time.
A possible explanation though could be put down to Labour starting afresh from when EM became leader.
Frankly its typical of right wing politicians - if recorded history doesn't fit - simply re-write it - we have seen it before haven't we?
Most recently with Labour trying to pretend 1997 - 2010 didn't happen and was just a bad dream :rolleyes:
Pathetic rubbish as per usual
Yet more informed and incisive comment
If I want to dig around what they were saying in opposition why on earth would they want to help me?
Extreme attempts to wipe history, political accountability, in this way should be viewed on with horror.
I can only imagine what the Tories would be saying if Labour had done something similar!
:rolleyes:
You don't have to imagine anything. Go look at the Labour site (and post #3). They erased everything up to October 2010.
Should we be viewing that with horror as well? Should we be questioning the nature of democracy and giving rise to hyperbole along the lines of "extreme attempts to wipe history etc."? Or should we just be grateful that a whole pile of rubbish has been summarily expunged from the web?
Or maybe, because it's Labour, it's OK?
They're not in government are they?
How can they be held account for policies they never had a chance of delivering.
Oh, it would have been made a far bigger story than this has for sure. The right wing press would have been onto it for weeks.
If you were Labour wouldn't you do the same ?
I disagree.
I think it important that people are aware of what a governing party promised it would do just a few years ago, in relation to their ticket to current election.