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The Lib Dem Councillor

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09.08.2026

Nobody can deny that Pippa is a campaigner.  Her friends say it, her children complain about it, even her opponents – she tries very hard not to call them her enemies (in public) – say it.  The leaflets with Liberal Democrats on the front say it; the newspapers with Liberal Democrats in tiny letters on the back say it. Curiously, none of them ever mention what she campaigns for, or whether any of these campaigns have ever been successful – but that is really beside the point. 

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Fact check: the many claims of Jason Arday

Ten years ago, she was campaigning against Brexit.  (She might have had more of an impact had she campaigned before the referendum, but that is also beside the point.)  During Covid, she campaigned against Boris de Pfeffel Johnson and his shocking refusal to follow Independent SAGE; later on, she took the knee for Black Lives Matter.  That didn’t really work as campaigning – no one could see her unless they saw the photos on Facebook, and even then, her aunts thought she and the girls were doing lunges with Joe Wicks again – and so she painted ‘Black Lives Matter’ on a sheet and hung it out of her bedroom window.  It may have been more........

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