billybong Posted November 14, 2013 Share Posted November 14, 2013 (edited) I was wondering why I couldn't find anything on Cameron and Osborne's references to the housing bubble. I distinctly remember both of them talking about it but can't find anything now. A similar thing happened with G Brown's interview with I think it was Piers Morgan. One of a series of interview episodes not long before the 2010 general election. The episode when he talked about family life etc and he said he would like to work for charity if he lost the election - rather than going on the rounds of speeches thing. Some of the other interview episodes were available but apparently not that one. It seemed nowhere to be found although it had previously been easily available. Maybe all the main political parties are doing stuff like that. Edited November 14, 2013 by billybong Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R K Posted November 14, 2013 Share Posted November 14, 2013 What a strange co-incidence......................... [/url] Michael Crick @MichaelLCrick Tories deleting speeches from the Wayback Archive is exactly what someone did with web pages from Grant Shapps's firm How To Corp. Oliver Stone should make a film about Corinne Stockheath. https://twitter.com/MichaelLCrick' rel="external nofollow"> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
interestrateripoff Posted November 14, 2013 Share Posted November 14, 2013 http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/tories-deleted-past-broken-promises-from-party-website-8937435.html The Indy are running with it now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onlyme2 Posted November 14, 2013 Share Posted November 14, 2013 http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/tories-deleted-past-broken-promises-from-party-website-8937435.html The Indy are running with it now. Quite a list..... Don’t quote us on that: Tory pledges * No big NHS reorganisation 'With the Conservatives there will be no more of the tiresome, meddlesome, top-down restructures that have dominated the last decade of the NHS' David Cameron, 2009 (Andrew Lansley went on to launch one of the largest reorganisations in NHS history) * Protecting Sure Start centres from closure 'Sure Start will stay, and we’ll improve it. We will keep flexible working, and extend it' David Cameron, 2009 (Labour claims more than 400 Sure Start centres have been shut since the Coalition came to power) * Reforming the lobbying industry 'It is the next big scandal waiting to happen. I’m talking about lobbying. In this party, we believe in competition, not cronyism' David Cameron, 2010 (The Government’s Lobbying Bill will not tackle in-house lobbyists and/or regulate contacts between special-interest groups, government advisers and most civil servants) * Becoming the greenest government in history 'There’s increasingly an argument being aired that the public might put up with the green agenda when the going’s good, but not now that the economy is slowing and they’re feeling the pinch. But [that] should make it even more urgent that we act' George Osborne, 2008 (Tories in government are enthusiastically pushing a “dash for shale gas” as an alternative to what they see as expensive green energy) * No cuts to child benefit 'I like the child benefit, I wouldn’t change child benefit, I wouldn’t means-test it' David Cameron, 2010 (The Coalition later abolished the benefit for higher earners and froze it for three years) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onlyme2 Posted November 14, 2013 Share Posted November 14, 2013 Another list from back in 2010. Some of those you just have to laugh at the brazen lies they had no intention of doing. http://metro.co.uk/2010/04/13/general-election-2010-conservative-partys-manifesto-the-top-20-pledges-236432/ Conservative Party’s manifesto – the top 20 pledges Tuesday 13 Apr 2010 11:34 am 12 Here are the top 20 points of the Conservative Party’s 130-page election manifesto, Invitation to join the Government of Britain. Conservative Party’s manifesto – the top 20 pledgesThe front page of the Conservative Party Manifesto :: Safeguard Britain’s credit rating with a credible plan to eliminate the bulk of the structural deficit over a Parliament set out in an emergency Budget within 50 days of taking office. :: Create the conditions for higher exports, business investment and savings, while cutting youth unemployment. :: Reform the regulation and structure of the banking system. :: Reduce greenhouse gas emissions and increase the UK’s share of global markets for low carbon technologies. :: Cut a net £6 billion of waste in departmental spending in 2010-11. :: Freeze public sector pay for one year in 2011. :: Cut ministers’ pay by 5%, followed by a five-year freeze. :: Reduce the number of MPs by 10% and cap public sector pensions above £50,000. :: Reverse Labour’s planned National Insurance hike for anyone earning under £35,000 next year. :: Create a single Work Programme for everyone who is unemployed. :: Boost small businesses with automatic rate relief. :: Cut the headline rate of corporation tax to 25p and the small companies’ rate to 20p. :: Set an annual limit on the number of non-EU economic migrants admitted into the UK. :: Block plans for second runways at Stansted and Gatwick, while starting work on new high speed rail network. :: Freeze council tax for two years and scrap plans for a revaluation. :: Re-link the basic state pension to earnings and protect the winter fuel payment. :: Give every patient the power to choose any healthcare provider which meets NHS standards within NHS prices. :: Stop the “forced” closure of accident and emergency wards, and commission a 24/7 urgent care service in every area of England. :: Raise standards in schools by enhancing the status of teachers and allowing state schools the freedom to offer same high quality international exams that private schools offer. :: Give parents the power to save local schools threatened by closure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winkie Posted November 14, 2013 Share Posted November 14, 2013 I can't understand how they can think doing this will work in their favour, it only makes for less transparency, hiding the truth and loss of trust and integrity.....but should we be surprised? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
juvenal Posted November 14, 2013 Share Posted November 14, 2013 (edited) Labour up to the same game, by the look of it... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-24942040 Labour has now admitted its own website is also "regularly updated". But the party says it has not tried to block search engines from keeping a record of its archived pages. Commentators have pointed out that Labour's current news archive dates back only as far as the start of Ed Miliband's leadership, in 2010. A large amount of older content is still available on the party's website, even though it is no longer listed in the news archive. Some older pages have been deleted, however. BBC news Edited November 14, 2013 by juvenal Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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