Monday, September 29, 2008

Conservatives U turn on decentralisation



The Tories are calling for a centrally-imposed freeze in council tax, as part of their commitment to localism.

I thought I might refer to their previous announcement on the subject of localism, and found that the page had been removed.















Luckily google cache comes to the rescue
















All fine-sounding stuff of the type tories say when they are behind in the polls. 
And google gives us the date:
It is a snapshot of the page as it appeared on 21 Sep 2008 05:51:27 GMT.

That's 8 days ago. This page seems to have been "lost" suspiciously close to the date of the announcement of this new policy.

The old Dave said:

So I hope that in 2008 the Liberal Democrats and the Green Party will join us in putting pressure on the Government to decentralise power, and that together we can create a new progressive alliance to decentralise British politics.

And the Conservatives, Dave, don't forget the Conservatives.


1 comment:

Liberal Polemic said...

Actually, it's a disturbingly common phenomenon. The Conservative website must have one of the worst archiving protocols going.

I suspect that it is the result - as you imply - of deliberate redacting of the past.

Because as we know, "“ He who controls the present controls the past…