Applescript "do javascript" click link

Hi, I want to make a script that opens a web page in Safari, then clicks on a link. however the link is javascript, with a self referrential href
Does this code look like it should be working, becuse it jsut gives a blank page.
on run
launch application "Safari"
tell application "Safari"
make new document at end of documents
set URL of document 1 to "http://www.biggercity.com/chat"
do JavaScript "bcStartCamsOnly()" in document 1
(*actual link is *)
end tell
end run

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