The Conservatives have attempted to hide 10 years of speeches from the internet, it has emerged.
The speeches, news stories, press releases and blogs, which date back to 2000 until the party came to power in May 2010, have been hidden from public view on the Conservative Party website.
They have also removed the record of their past speeches from internet search engines, including Google, according to Computer Weekly.
It means those using the search engine to try to find the speeches on the Conservative Party website would simply get no results.
The removal of such a large collection of speeches will fuel speculation the Tories are attempting to make it difficult for people to hold them to account to pledges made ahead of the 2010 election with the 2015 vote looming.
In addition the archive of information has been erased from the Internet Archive, which is the public record of the internet.
The specialist computer magazine explained that the Tories had used something called a robot blocker to remove the speeches, which effectively hides speeches in a "secretive corner of the internet like those that shelter the military (and) secret services".
In a search for the speeches on the Internet Archive it simply responded: "Page cannot be crawled or displayed due to robots.txt".
Some of the speeches involved are those made by David Cameron and George Osborne in which they campaign to use the internet to make politics more transparent.
Responding to the claims, a Conservative spokesman said: "We're 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."
Computer Weekly says that the Internet Archive has started to restore some of the files on its searches.
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The speeches, news stories, press releases and blogs, which date back to 2000 until the party came to power in May 2010, have been hidden from public view on the Conservative Party website.
They have also removed the record of their past speeches from internet search engines, including Google, according to Computer Weekly.
It means those using the search engine to try to find the speeches on the Conservative Party website would simply get no results.
The removal of such a large collection of speeches will fuel speculation the Tories are attempting to make it difficult for people to hold them to account to pledges made ahead of the 2010 election with the 2015 vote looming.
In addition the archive of information has been erased from the Internet Archive, which is the public record of the internet.
The specialist computer magazine explained that the Tories had used something called a robot blocker to remove the speeches, which effectively hides speeches in a "secretive corner of the internet like those that shelter the military (and) secret services".
In a search for the speeches on the Internet Archive it simply responded: "Page cannot be crawled or displayed due to robots.txt".
Some of the speeches involved are those made by David Cameron and George Osborne in which they campaign to use the internet to make politics more transparent.
Responding to the claims, a Conservative spokesman said: "We're 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."
Computer Weekly says that the Internet Archive has started to restore some of the files on its searches.
Scum of the Earth trash!!
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