During my campaign for the Clacton-on-Sea by-election, I've had numerous discussions with local residents and rival candidates concerned about the huge media bias in favor of the incumbent candidate and one of the novelty candidates, Count Binface.
Immediately after the incumbent MP resigned, numerous news reports appeared telling residents to make a tactical vote for the novelty candidate. Local people feel his tactical vote is not their own decision, it feels like other people deciding how Clacton should vote.
People subsequently exposed the fact the novelty candidate has pre-existing links to the BBC. His management agency's web site tells us:
He [Jon Harvey / Binface] has created several popular shows for BBC Radio 4, including panel game The Ultimate Choice, starring Steph McGovern, and political sitcom Lobby Land
In the local newspaper, the Clacton Gazette, the front page is fully dedicated to an advertising feature for the the incumbent candidate.
Looking at the newsletter for the local Catholic church, Our Lady of Light, there is a notice about the euthanasia vote in Westminster. The newsletter suggests the the incumbent candidate is still "our MP" and parishioners are asked to contact him. The email address in the newsletter should have been disabled when he resigned in July. It would only be reactivated if people do not choose one of the other candidates.
The correct thing for the parish to do is to provide a list of every candidate who supports the Catholic teaching on euthanasia and encourage every member of the parish to go out and vote on Thursday, 13 August 2026.
Other candidates can contact Fr Patrick and Fr Peter and ask to have their support for the church's position included in the newsletter, if in fact they have a policy on the issue.
Ironically, the parish had been waiting seven years for missionaries from the Legion of Mary to commence a doorknocking program in the parish. The missionaries arrived in the same week that a record number of 34 would-be-politicians arrived and began their own doorknocking campaigns to try and seize Farage's seat. Therefore, the church itself has also been a victim of this rogue by-election that is being conducted while many people are on holiday.
People who want to volunteer with the group are invited to attend their weekly meeting or contact their parish priest.
Don't forget the distorted search results from Google. They are currently showing people a mixed bag of links to random articles and photos unrelated to the current campaign. When you look at the screenshots from previous elections, you can't help feeling that misfits who work for Google have deliberately tweaked the search results to undermine my campaign and the process of democracy:
From 2024:
Google bias in 2026 when people search "daniel pocock clacton". What are the men at Google trying to suggest by including search results in Arabic and placing it further down the page than other results that have no obvious connection to Clacton-on-Sea whatsoever?
Forty three percent of people did not vote at all in the last election in the district of Clacton-on-Sea. If people do want to change the results and overcome all the bias, it is vital to print copies of my flyers, speak to your friends and neighbours and go down to the polling station together to
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