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Britain's Conservatives Scrub Speeches from the Internet
An anonymous reader writes news of an attempt to erase a bit of history. From the article: "The Conservative Party have attempted to delete all their speeches and press releases online from the past 10 years, including one in which David Cameron promises to use the Internet to make politicians 'more accountable'. The Tory party have deleted the backlog of speeches from the main website and the Internet Archive — which aims to make a permanent record of websites and their content — between 2000 and May 2010."
No term limits! We have them in California, and they suck. All you end up with are the political parties directly controlling legislation. The parties are then the ones taking the bribes and special interest money.
Look at the Senate. 6 year terms. That's _good_. There are more independent minds in the Senate then just about anywhere else, except perhaps the House of Lords in England. But they're _too_ level headed, so the political parties in the UK want to get rid of the Lords entirely.