The Editor
The Oxford
Times
Newspaper House
Osney Mead
Oxford
OX2 0EJ
Sir,
I refer to your report 'One of the safest seats in Britain' (Oxford Times 30 April 2015 p.7) by Luke Sproule.
Under the caption 'THE CANDIDATES', there is no mention of
four of the candidates standing for Witney including myself – Colin Bex Wessex
Regionalists – the party for Wessex.
A cursory note at the end of the report patronisingly lists
'other' candidates (including myself), two of whom already are featured as 'THE
CANDIDATES'.
Contrary to the allegation so called 'other' candidates did
not provide biography details – on Wednesday 22 April I personally visited
Newspaper House at Osney Mead and hand delivered the press release attached
together with my details, and further, I provided my biography to a reporter in
person, and attended a photo-call at his request in which I saw results of some
twenty images taken of my likeness all of which I was assured would be
available for choice for future publication both in your organ and in your
sister daily, the Oxford Mail.
For the time being as you should well know, all candidates
standing in British elections do so on the same terms as all the others, so at the
very least these omissions constitute journalistic incompetence – at worst they
constitute culpable bias not least in depriving the Witney electorate of
information crucial to their being able to cast a vote intelligently based on
the information provided which must be made available to them.
Following the flagrant abuse by Churches Together against
democracy on Friday 10 April in which seven candidates not only were excluded
from addressing the 1% selectively cleansed minority of constituents, also they
were banned from so much as witnessing this travesty of democracy – as were
both the national and local press photographers present, I should have expected
that local press such as yourselves would have made sure you would redress such
democratic deficit – not compound it.
No wonder people need the opportunity to vote for me and others
who are standing against such shenanigans being allowed to occur ever again.
Before deciding how to vote, all voters are entitled to know
that I am standing to make Witney one of the safest seats in Britain – safe
that is from the damage and betrayal being planned as I write by the three
people whose likenesses feature at the head of the report, and that my aim is
to poll more than 22,000 votes to be able to win Witney for a majority of its
good people to be able to reclaim their lives and rightful freedoms from
malicious debt and from any further damaging diktat from the next Westminster
government – from what ever most likely unlawful concoction it may be
contrived.
Kindly note, if you fail to publish this letter in the next
issues both of the Oxford Times and
the Oxford Mail together with a
report on both the press releases attached, before and on the day of the
election – in full together with a full and unambiguous apology, not only shall
I lodge an election petition declaring the results of the election void – also
I shall take legal advice on what action may be available to me against both
your organs on account of your part in depriving me and the electorate of our respective
democratic rights as set out by the Electoral Commission, the Representation of
the People Act and the Levison Report.
Kindly acknowledge receipt of this letter and respond
without delay.
Yours sincerely,
Colin Bex
Candidate, Witney,
Wessex Regionalists
– the party for Wessex
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