Thursday, July 23rd, 2026, 6:17 am
Pocock-on-Sea: Daniel Pocock’s Attempt to Become British Politician
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aniel Pocock is not British, but he is running as if he is British while he is Irish, Swiss, and Australian. Can he succeed? His platform is out of the ordinary, so he can at least stand out and get noticed.
“Apropos Daniel’s run for office,” a friend has told me, “there is the problem of “split ballots” If there are many similar candidates, and one outlier, the pool of voters which are similar spread their votes over the pool of similar candidates. Thus none of them get enough to take the lead. However, the outlier collects as a single candidate all the dissimilar votes and thus ends up taking the lead. That is precisely how Michael Moore ended up in public office a long time ago. The opposition then fielded a lot of candidddates and thus spread their vote pool so thinly that they all lost and an unknown won. Similarly in 2006 during the Eurovision Song contest, there were a lot of similar sounding songs of the same genre which gained a wide spread of votes, none taking a lead. However, there was a single metal contestant and he collected all the metal votes, which turned out to be more than any single other contestant. So I ask where on the political spectrums do the 34 candidates in Daniel’s race lie? If they are similar to him politically, then those backing Farage are trying to water down Daniel’s message. Either way, I wish him both luck and visibility.”
Let’s see how he gets on.
