Snapshot audit, not a current availability check. HTTP success and surname matches do not prove campaign content survived. On-chain fields are on Sepolia testnet; full content is not stored on-chain.
URLs responding — James Howard Mark Withington's recorded URLs returned successful HTTP responses at the 2026-09-07 audit. This does not establish that campaign content survived.
Labour Party: 61% responding across the party · this candidate: responding.See the cohort ↗
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April site-wide text vs the 2026-09-21 homepage fetch of https://www.staffordlabour.org.uk/local-elections: 8 sentences still present, 68 no longer found, 3 new. These are candidates for review, not proof a sentence was withdrawn.The April text covers the whole scraped site; the later text is one homepage fetch. A sentence can be missing from that homepage and still exist on another page. A missing sentence is not matched to a replacement.
The snapshot lists 5 of 68 sentences that were not found. The rest are counted, not quoted here.
Before · April 2025
Executive Officers Julie Read - CLP Chair & Dep Reg Treasurer Nathan Evans - Co-Vice Chair Nicholas Shaw - Co-Vice Chair Mike Winkle - Treasurer Jeff Love & Deborah Collis - Secretaries Anne Hobbs & Jane Capron - Women's Officers Julian Thorley - Trade Union Officer Dee McNaughton - Trade Union Offi
Gap: no replacement sentence is matched. The April text covers the whole scraped site; the later text is one homepage fetch. A sentence can be missing from that homepage and still exist on another page.
Before · April 2025
The areas where our communities have told us they need us include:- - Safeguarding our wonderful green spaces - Repairing and maintaining infrastructure - A committed effort to allow our high streets to thrive - A safe environment and sustainable future for all of us in the constituency Why not join
Gap: no replacement sentence is matched. The April text covers the whole scraped site; the later text is one homepage fetch. A sentence can be missing from that homepage and still exist on another page.
Before · April 2025
The Cabinet has now been selected, and is as follows: Leader – Aidan Godfrey (Labour and Co-Operative) Deputy – Rob Kenny (Borough Independents) Resources – Ralph Cooke (Labour) Community – Jill Hood (Borough Independents) Leisure – Gillian Pardesi (Labour & Co-Operative) Economic Development – Ant
Gap: no replacement sentence is matched. The April text covers the whole scraped site; the later text is one homepage fetch. A sentence can be missing from that homepage and still exist on another page.
Before · April 2025
She became socially aware from a young age after watching the Ken Loach film ‘Cathy Come Home’ and became increasingly aware of how generations of her own family, and countless others, have had their ambitions limited or stifled by a sense of ‘knowing their place’ in the world.
Gap: no replacement sentence is matched. The April text covers the whole scraped site; the later text is one homepage fetch. A sentence can be missing from that homepage and still exist on another page.
Before · April 2025
Gililan Pardesi Borough Councillor for Littleworth Ward and County Councillor for Stafford Central Gillian is the Labour and Co-operative Party borough councillor for the Littleworth Ward – together with Tony Nixon – and also serves as County Councillor for Stafford Central.
Gap: no replacement sentence is matched. The April text covers the whole scraped site; the later text is one homepage fetch. A sentence can be missing from that homepage and still exist on another page.
New on the later homepage, not matched to a removed sentence
The Cabinet has now been selected, and is as follows: Leader – Aidan Godfrey (Labour and Co-Operative) Deputy – Rob Kenny (Borough Independents) Resources – Ralph Cooke (Labour) Community – Jill Hood (Borough Independents) Leisure – Gillian Pardesi (Labour & Co-Operative) Economic Development – Ant This sentence is only on the later homepage. No April sentence is matched to it. 21 September 2026 · https://www.staffordlabour.org.uk/local-elections
Local Elections – Stafford Labour Local Elections Home / Local Elections Stafford Borough Council elections 2023 Labour makes gains and now leads the Council Thank you to everyone who voted in the Stafford Borough Council elections, and those who have put their trust in us.democracy This sentence is only on the later homepage. No April sentence is matched to it. 21 September 2026 · https://www.staffordlabour.org.uk/local-elections
Following the Annual Council meeting on Saturday (13 May), Councillor Aidan Godfrey was voted in as the Leader of Stafford Borough Council . This sentence is only on the later homepage. No April sentence is matched to it. 21 September 2026 · https://www.staffordlabour.org.uk/local-elections
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Content chronology
minorSmall text difference from the compared archived page · 47% of April tokens still found
Compared April Campaign Lab text to Wayback 20260531 (outside Apr 2025 scrape window — treat with care) · open archived page
This score compares a Wayback capture with the April text. The before and after wording of that comparison is not stored in the snapshot. Method in docs/wayback-spike.md.
Candidate-name signal: surname not found in the response body (heuristic only)
Source evidence and excerpts
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