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URLs responding — Joe Lynch's recorded URLs returned successful HTTP responses at the 2026-09-07 audit. This does not establish that campaign content survived.
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Before and after
April site-wide text vs the 2026-09-21 homepage fetch of https://mcrlibdems.uk: 0 sentences still present, 698 no longer found, 27 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 These are candidates for review, not proof a sentence was withdrawn.The April text covers the whole scraped site; the later text is one homepage fetch.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 698 sentences that were not found. The rest are counted, not quoted here.
Before · April 2025
"For years I've had friends and family tell me that I should enter politics and that `I'd vote for you`, but I'd always dismissed that encouragement because I don't want to be in the public eye and I'd assumed that the people in charge nationally and locally ultimately had more experience and sense
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
"My job as an IT systems administrator requires me to juggle resolving problems that have come up, and making structural changes to systems where there is an underlying root cause to repeat issues, all whilst keeping in mind that `everything is connected` and that a change in one place might trigger
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
I also have to translate requests for things people say that they want in to something that's actually deliverable, often by trying to rephrase the request in to finding out what it is that they're trying to achieve and then using my expertise and the expertise of other people who know better than m
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
I want to stand with Greater Manchester Housing Action and Liberty in opposing the Public Space Protection Order for part of the ward; we need to do something but granting sweeping powers that are ripe for misuse is not the way, and the current boundary would just shift the focus of the problems fro
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
I give everyone my word that I'll do everything that I can to work constructively with the other ward councillors and anyone in the Labour group to advance policies that are good for Piccadilly and for Manchester as a whole, but that I won't be afraid to stand up and offer constructive criticism of
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
Manchester Liberal Democrats Skip to main content Manchester Liberal Democrats Manchester Central Our Party Request a poster Volunteer News Donate Join Donate Join Our Party What we stand for Join Us News Local News UK Lib Dem news Manchester Liberal Democrats Demanding better for our city We are Ma This sentence is only on the later homepage. No April sentence is matched to it. 21 September 2026 · https://mcrlibdems.uk
Cllr Richard Kilpatrick for Greater Manchester Liberal Democrats select Cllr Richard Kilpatrick for Mayor of Greater Manchester READ MORE View Learn more about our values Our values View Become a volunteer today Volunteer View UK Lib Dem news Environment & Nature Britain’s Wildfire Crisis Following climate This sentence is only on the later homepage. No April sentence is matched to it. 21 September 2026 · https://mcrlibdems.uk
MG by Marie Goldman 21 Sep 2026 View Women Stopping Violence Against Women and Girls The Liberal Democrats are taking a stand to hold tech companies accountable, equip the police with the right powers, and build a digital world where women and girls can live safely and without fear.crime This sentence is only on the later homepage. No April sentence is matched to it. 21 September 2026 · https://mcrlibdems.uk
Form successfully submitted First Name * Last Name * Email Address * You can opt-out at any time Postcode The Liberal Democrats may use the information you provide, including your political opinions, to further our objectives and share it with our elected representatives. This sentence is only on the later homepage. No April sentence is matched to it. 21 September 2026 · https://mcrlibdems.uk
PH by Pippa Heylings 21 Sep 2026 View LGBTQ+ Restoring Trans Rights The Liberal Democrats will continue to stand in solidarity with trans and non-binary communities, defending equal rights, personal dignity and safety for all. This sentence is only on the later homepage. No April sentence is matched to it. 21 September 2026 · https://mcrlibdems.uk
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Content chronology
transformedLow text overlap with the compared archived page — inspect both sources · 13% of April tokens still found
Compared April Campaign Lab text to Wayback 20250419 · 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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This policy was last updated on the 2nd May 2018
The Liberal Democrats (“the Party”) respect individuals’ rights over th…
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7,587
Lib Dems launch manifesto with pledge to end Labour's back-room decisions and reverse pay rises for top bosses
John Leec…
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5,585
Manchester Labour Rejects Lib Dem Call to End Two-Child Benefit Cap
Manchester Liberal Democrats are dismayed that Manch…
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4,664
The Renter Charter
Iain Donaldson was asked:
I'm writing to you as a voter in Blackley and Broughton to urge you to comm…
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4,149
The Royal College of Nursing's manifesto
Iain Donaldson was asked:
This election has come at a critical time for nursing…
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4,106
Update from Autumn Conference 2024
Last weekend, all four of our city councillors and fellow members from across the cit…
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3,635
Joe Lynch selected to stand in Piccadilly Ward
Joe Lynch is proud to have been selected again as the Liberal Democrat ca…
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3,616
Open letter to Mayor Andy Burnham on Spiking
Dear Mayor Andy Burnham,
I would prefer not to be writing this letter. But …
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