Tolerance & inclusion in Clacton: every vote counts

10:30 Fri, 07 Aug 2026

According to one recent poll, up to seventy percent of Clacton residents said they will vote for the incumbent member of parliament, despite the fact we don't fully understand the reason for his resignation. For those who don't support him and for those who feel intimidated or marginalised, for people of colour, for people of non-Christian faiths, it feels like there is no point going to vote at all on 13 August.

In fact, as this is a by-election, there is far more scrutiny on this election than there was during the national election in 2024. The whole country, Europe and the rest of the world is watching Clacton-on-Sea today. Even in Australia there are news reports about the election.

Even if that guy wins again, people will look very closely at how many citizens vote for some other candidate. In 2024, he received forty-six percent of the vote. Even if he wins this time, if he was to get less votes than 2024, this would be a big boost for everybody who feels like they are being trampled on right now.

People who want to vote for tolerance and inclusion can look at my history back as far as 1997 and see that I am somebody they can trust.

In the late 1990s, my father and I lived in Coburg, one of the most multicultural regions of Australia. We were barely two hundred meters from Australia's first Islamic school where the controversial Randa Abdel-Fattah was educated.

In 1997, when I created a web site for native title rights in Australia, I became the first victim of a far-right doxing attack in Australia. Their rant, which is still visible online today, accuses me of helping obtain government funds for ethnic communities:

Now CO.AS.IT is not for other Australians let me remind you.... just Australians with Italian lineage... but it gets better just hold your horses there...

Quote from CO.AS.IT pages: "1968: First subsidy from the Australian Government, (Grant-in-Aid), Immigration Dept. First after-hours Italian classes at St. George's Primary School, Carlton." Sounds harmless enough, but of course since then the hand has been outstretched and money has just fallen into this multicultural organisation's lap like snowflakes on the snowfields in winter.....

and so it would have to have for here's another quote: "(CO.AS.IT owns) A modern library service, access to the largest Italian language CD-ROM Library in Australia, a State-of-the-Art Multimedia Centre with a television studio, a theatrette and a Language Laboratory with video conferencing facilities are an integral part of the Resource Centre." - No guessing who paid for all of that...

In 2013, I resigned from the Australian Labor Party (ALP) citing my concerns about the abuse of migrants. My resignation was leaked to the political news web site Crikey and they published it in full.

In 2018, I defended the honour of cats of colour, our two black cats, in a Swiss tribunal in Zurich. The far right Swiss landlord spread fake news about a smell from black cats. I recorded the trial and published sections of it so people can hear me defending the black cats.

The Zurich case was resolved with a cash settlement of CHF 10,000, equivalent to EUR 10,500 or USD 10,000 for our black cats:

Swiss francs, harassment, compensation, settlement

In 2022, I established the Nazi.compare web site to look at people and organisations who are going down the slippery slope of Hitler. The Berlin police wrote to me and advised they will not prosecute me for making tactical use of the word Nazi when appropriate to do so:

Matthias Kirschner, FSFE, Berlin police, Nazi comparison, criminal speech, criminal defamation

Notice the prosecutor has the name Herzog, like the Israeli president.

At the hustings event on 6 August 2026, when another candidate insisted only people with English, Scottish, Welsh or Irish ancestors can be British, I rose to speak about tolerance and inclusion, pointing out Prince Philip was not born in the UK.

At one point in my political undertakings, I even came across the asylum seeker who wants my job. Many people express fear about an asylum seeker taking their job. I went out of my way to help them. Their asylum claim was successful and they successfully built a new life and career for themselves.

For thirty years I have demonstrated a loud and consistent approach to tolerance and inclusion in society, wherever I live.

Voting for Daniel Pocock in Clacton is a vote for tolerance and inclusion.

Even if I don't win, every vote for Daniel Pocock in Clacton is counted and helps prove that people who believe in an inclusive Brtain exist in Clacton.

Given the incumbent candidate has millions of pounds to spend, I am not spending money on advertising. I rely on people who support tolerance and inclusion to spread my leaflets and web site to their friends and neibhbours by word-of-mouth. Every vote counts.

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