Stefan Mileschin

The UK Conservative Party appears to have had a gutsful of smart arse reporters quoting the promises and statements at the past back at it.

For a while now if you wanted to find out how many promises and statements the UK Conservatives had broken since it had become a government, all you had to do was visit its website. There you could find that all the things that they moaned about the Labour Government doing they have been doing themselves since they took office.

Now a sharp eyed hack at Computer Weekly has noticed that the Tories have solved that problem by just deleting the database. Unlike George Orwell’s 1984, where politicians just retrospectively edit history, the Tories have decided that a full deletion is needed.

The Conservative Party has attempted to erase a 10-year backlog of speeches from the internet, including pledges for a new kind of transparent politics the prime minister and chancellor made when they were campaigning for election.

http://news.techeye.net/business/tor...delete-history