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The Conservative Party has deleted speeches and press releases published on its website between 2000 and the 2010 general election. The archive has also been hidden from search engines.

The move was spotted by Computer Weekly, a trade publication, which also said some records had been removed from the Internet Archive, which aims to make a permanent record of web content.

The Conservatives said the move keeps their revamped website up-to-date. A Conservative spokesman said: 'We are making sure our website keeps the Conservative Party at the forefront of political campaigning.

"These changes allow people to quickly and easily access the most important information we provide - how we are clearing up Labour's economic mess, taking the difficult decisions and standing up for hardworking people."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-24924185

What a totally pointless exercise, the information that has been deleted is all over the Internet and easily available by doing a simple search :-S

I also think it was not the brightest thing for them to do, they have at a stroke, fuelled a debate about them trying to hide their long list of broken promises, maybe they also think, that like them, we all suffer from memory loss ;-)

Who are they to decide what is 'the most important information we provide'???
Totally agree with you OFitG

To provide a balance I've just checked out the Labour Party website and cant see anything about Tony Blair's warning of weapons of mass destruction as he led us into what some would call an illegal war.
Nor can I see anything about The Labour Government selling off the bulk of the gold reserves when the price was at a 25 year low.
Maybe the Conservatives aren't the only party who 'tidy up' their records

What the Conservative Party deleted related to statements and speeches made by senior conservatives while they were in opposition prior to the 2010 general election.

The warning of weapons of mass destruction and the selling off the the gold reserves was something Tony Blair & Gordon Brown did while in Government, their statements on both these issues are well documented, not least in Hansard, and I do not recall any statement or press release being made on either of these issues when they were in opposition prior to the May 1997 general election.

"He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past...

Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it."
Geo Orwell, 1984

However the BBC and other news organisations, print media, British Library, Johnny foreigner, net archives all have copies The problem is how to access them.

Shows the way politicians of all stripes think though.