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I believe the Conservatives (at least) have also disallowed the relevant paths via their robots.txt: http://www.conservatives.com/robots.txt http://www.conserva

by choult 13y ago

I believe the Conservatives (at least) have also disallowed the relevant paths via their robots.txt: http://www.conservatives.com/robots.txt http://www.conservatives.com/robots.txt This then has the effect of removing it from the Internet Archive for a start...

eliasmacpherson 13y ago
That is a shame. To my knowledge, no party or politician has ever changed tack after being challenged on the basis that they are contradicting their election promises. But there's something eerily Orwellian about this, we have always been at war with Eurasia. https://archive.org/about/exclude.php https://archive.org/about/exclude.php "The Internet Archive is not interested in offering access to web sites or other Internet documents whose authors do not want their materials in the collection."
peteretep 13y ago
Kind of makes sense too - you don't want people searching for Conservative policies at election time accidentally finding the ones with the pressing issues for the last election.
- choult 13y ago
  ... or for them to be complicit in laying bare their own hypocrisy ...
  - mattmanser 13y ago
    It's not hypocrisy to change your mind or change direction as the situation changes.
    - makomk 13y ago
      Unfortunately, it's becoming increasingly obvious that the Tories never planned on following through with their promises in the first place. Their original justification was that the country's finances were so bad they couldn't afford all the things they'd promised. However, now that everyone's mostly forgotten what they originally said and they've deleted it from the internet David Cameron has declared that his policy of closing and crippling the Government services he got elected on the promise of protecting is permanent and has nothing to do with the country's financial state after all.
    - 7952 13y ago
      It can demonstrate a lack of judgement.

by choult 13y ago

eliasmacpherson 13y ago

That is a shame. To my knowledge, no party or politician has ever changed tack after being challenged on the basis that they are contradicting their election promises. But there's something eerily Orwellian about this, we have always been at war with Eurasia. https://archive.org/about/exclude.php https://archive.org/about/exclude.php "The Internet Archive is not interested in offering access to web sites or other Internet documents whose authors do not want their materials in the collection."

peteretep 13y ago

Kind of makes sense too - you don't want people searching for Conservative policies at election time accidentally finding the ones with the pressing issues for the last election.

choult 13y ago
... or for them to be complicit in laying bare their own hypocrisy ...
- mattmanser 13y ago
  It's not hypocrisy to change your mind or change direction as the situation changes.
  - makomk 13y ago
    Unfortunately, it's becoming increasingly obvious that the Tories never planned on following through with their promises in the first place. Their original justification was that the country's finances were so bad they couldn't afford all the things they'd promised. However, now that everyone's mostly forgotten what they originally said and they've deleted it from the internet David Cameron has declared that his policy of closing and crippling the Government services he got elected on the promise of protecting is permanent and has nothing to do with the country's financial state after all.
  - 7952 13y ago
    It can demonstrate a lack of judgement.