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Campaign site for Ed Pond (Independent — Epping Forest), scraped April 2025, audited September 2026.

Ed Pond

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URLs responding — Ed Pond's recorded URLs returned successful HTTP responses at the 2026-09-07 audit. This does not establish that campaign content survived.

Independent: 59% responding across the party · this candidate: responding.See the cohort ↗

Stood in Epping Forest — 3 of 3 sites responding (100%) · 0 unreachable · 0 redirected

E14001226 · East of England · England · 74,553 electorate · Halftone: more / larger paper dots = lower response rate.

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Before and after

April site-wide text vs the 2026-09-21 homepage fetch of https://edpond.substack.com/p/ed-pond-an-independent-voice-for: 134 sentences still present, 128 no longer found, 10 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 These are candidates for review, not proof a sentence was withdrawn.The April text covers the whole scraped site; the later text is one homepage fetch.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 128 sentences that were not found. The rest are counted, not quoted here.

Before · April 2025

Ed Pond: An Independent Voice for Epping Forest After years of opining and backroom work, I intend to stand for the General Election and here's why Since its creation in 1974, Epping Forest constituency has been represented by a Conservative MP.

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After · 21 September 2026

Not found on the homepage fetch.

https://edpond.substack.com/p/ed-pond-an-independent-voice-for

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

Apologies for being verbose but I would really appreciate a take on this, I can't get a clear or balanced answer from anyone. https://www.nhsconfed.org/articles/immigration-harming-nhs Well we do have to fund things properly as well.

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After · 21 September 2026

Not found on the homepage fetch.

https://edpond.substack.com/p/ed-pond-an-independent-voice-for

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

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After · 21 September 2026

Not found on the homepage fetch.

https://edpond.substack.com/p/ed-pond-an-independent-voice-for

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 have a lot in common with Reform but not on this, I also like to be responsible for my own actions and answerable to nobody, and I know there is a real taste for independent candidates in the area.

After · 21 September 2026

Not found on the homepage fetch.

https://edpond.substack.com/p/ed-pond-an-independent-voice-for

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

Yeah I did know it was directed at Mike, but I wanted to respond anyway :) Expand full comment Reply Share Share Copy link Facebook Email Notes More This site requires JavaScript to run correctly.

After · 21 September 2026

Not found on the homepage fetch.

https://edpond.substack.com/p/ed-pond-an-independent-voice-for

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

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    Source evidence and excerpts

    These are short excerpts from the April 2025 scrape, not the later wording and not complete archived pages. Original filenames identify the stored extracts. Browse the Campaign Lab source dataset ↗

    Scrape excerpts — April 2025 · 8 shown
    PageCharsOpening excerpt
    content_1.html16,115
    Ed Pond: An Independent Voice for Epping Forest
After years of opining and backroom work, I intend to stand for the Gene…
    content_4.html15,568
    Hi Michael. Well my economics differ from Reform in that they are neoliberals and Thatcherites, and I am more to the lef…
    content_5.html6,296
    So much said Ed with no mention of the ongoing Israel war on Palestine. What is your stance on this ongoing conflict and…
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    On one hand my focus is much closer to home, and British problems. That said I do have a position.
My position is that I…
    content_20.html3,779
    Hello Ed. I'm curious about how you would back up that immigration is as big an issue as the media makes it out to be. T…
    content_16.html3,078
    Hamas have threatened to continue its 7th October attacks until every Israeli is iradiicated from Israel which only occu…
    content_9.html2,372
    Well we do have to fund things properly as well. This has not been happening. When you then bring in a million people a …
    content_27.html2,328
    Hi Michael. Well my economics differ from Reform in that they are neoliberals and Thatcherites, and I am more to the lef…
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