05/17/2010: "Labour party public history being re-written"

the beauty of website blogs - this one included - is that they capture the writer's thoughts/opinions at that precise moment in time.
just as in printed articles in the newspapers, official report/review findings, once "out there" in the public domain, they are a direct way to reflect a person/company/government view, but there is a difference.

in print, any views are permanent... as we have already seen in the run up to the general election, blogs and website reviews/opinions of official records, are open to being changed!

back in January 2010, i was reading through some public comments on the BBC forums, one poster there (ive no reason not to believe them) stated that he himself had worked as a civil servant, on a review a couple of years earlier. He had a copy of a government report, but wanted to get the "links" included in that report, to check some figures.
When he went to online version fo the report, he was amazed to find that the details of that report had vanished!
the report's details online, had been removed and replaced with a summary of the government's view to some of the findings, the report had been doctored.

my own thinking was in agreement with that of the poster of the comment, to question why online information was being changed and adapted to give a viewpoint, by the sitting labour government or people working on its behalf?
i know full well that even this little old blog receives regular "hits" from someone over at labour hq - going back to 2006-7 - weve been visited every couple of weeks or so.

im not so ignorant to recognise that in the run up to the election and during the campaign itself, seemingly personal blogs of election candidates were not personal views at all, but under the control of labour paty hq
graham jones mp - who won hyndburn and haslingden' seat for labour is a great example.

in the run up to and during the election, his personal blog was updated every couple of days - as the election drew closer, some of the comments became more and more synical, accusing constituents of being either conservative voters or socialists! (bizarre, as the labour party are supposed to represent socialism?)
then as the election was called, a complete list of "labour achievements" was posted as graham jone's own post... complete with website links to other pages of labour's own website.
it was clearly not graham jones own work!
comments started to disappear, or were not authorised and published... they just vanished into thin air.

now, the election is over, all the thoughts and opinions and promises of graham jones mp, on his blog have been deleted.
heaven forbid he might have told his constituents prior to being voted in as an mp, some things that he did not want on record!
the same can be said of greg pope, former labour mp, who's blog and posts have vanished altogether!
(obviously a man of conviction)

many people are not aware, that websites/blogs etc, are not the same as newspaper articles, they can be editted at anytime, and by anyone... things are not always what they seem, they should be taken with a pinch of salt!