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Count Binface: A serious electoral profile for a deeply un-serious country

Post author:Grace
Post published:17 July 2026
Post last modified:17 July 2026

The race for the Clacton parliamentary by-election looks as though it will come down to just two candidates. One is a sad caricature of a fascist who’s making a vicious mockery of democracy in the UK. The other wears a bin on his head (AKA Count Binface). Nigel Farage triggered the by-election after dramatically quitting his seat on 7 July. The far-right leader was facing multiple investigations and scandals at the time, including: Failing to declare financial support he received from a convicted fraudster in the run-up to the 2024 election; Multiple investigations into a £5m gift he received from a…

Farage v Count Binface is now a global phenomenon

Post author:Willem Moore
Post published:15 July 2026
Post last modified:15 July 2026

On 7 July, Nigel Farage stepped down as the MP for Clacton. Skipping forwards, Farage is now running to reclaim the seat he just gave up, and his only real opponent is a man who pretends to be an intergalactic dustbin. As you’d expect, the rest of the world is now obsessed with this story: I love this Japanese TV News report about Count Binface taking on Nigel Farage in the Clacton by-election: Farage has managed to make himself look bad globally. pic.twitter.com/xubtDfTzVP — Wokerati Marty (@WokeratiMarty) July 14, 2026 Farage big in Japan The clip above features the following subtitles:…

More Brits want Count Binface to win than Farage

Post author:Willem Moore
Post published:12 July 2026
Post last modified:12 July 2026

On 7 July, Nigel Farage resigned as the MP for Clacton. Seconds later, he announced he was running to become… the MP for Clacton. Hours later, the other political parties said they wouldn’t be running, and that Farage could have his fun running against Count Binface. Days later again, the public delivered their verdict: I just like the fact that 13% of the people polled can't decide. pic.twitter.com/ghxVShMUqh — Jonathan Pie (@JonathanPieNews) July 11, 2026 FFS Farage! If this all seems ridiculous, that’s because it is. There was no good reason for Farage to step down; our best guess as to…

Farage to face Count Binface & Laurence ‘wasteman’ Fox in Clacton

Post author:Willem Moore
Post published:8 July 2026
Post last modified:8 July 2026

On Tuesday 7 July, Nigel Farage instigated what’s shaping up to be the most pointless by-election in history. It may also be the strangest, because Farage’s opponents are set to be Count Binface and professional divorcee Laurence ‘wasteman’ Fox: Nigel Farage and his colleagues are setting themselves up for a month of this. And they genuinely expect people to let them run the country. https://t.co/bVwyMqhR8t — (((Dan Hodges))) (@DPJHodges) July 8, 2026 Farage: get in the bin Usually when an MP steps down, it’s because they want to step down. Farage, meanwhile, is set to contest the seat he’s just made…

Makerfield ‘Count Binface’ candidate delivers a slam dunk over Farage

Post author:Skwawkbox
Post published:19 June 2026
Post last modified:21 June 2026

Political candidate Jonathan Harvey — also known as ‘Count Binface’ — stood in the Makerfield by-election for comedy value rather than in hope of winning. But even a comedy candidate has more political honesty than racist Reform UK leader Nigel Farage. Notably, the peculiar atmosphere of Makerfield displayed just how easily humour can inform local politics. Quizzed by Sky News about his candidacy and whether he lived in the constituency, Harvey promised he would move there if he won, and reminding viewers that Farage “spends more time in America than in Clacton.” Farage is notionally the MP for Clacton in Essex,…

Count Binface Makerfield manifesto would stitch up Burnham

Post author:John Ranson
Post published:4 June 2026
Post last modified:9 June 2026

Count Binface is among the candidates for the Makerfield by-election. So voters will have at least one coherent manifesto to ponder. UK politics has a long and rich tradition of electoral candidates who apparently exist in a different universe from everyone else. It’s how we ended up with Boris Johnson and Liz Truss as successive PMs. But aside from the utter deadbeats standing for allegedly serious parties, there’s the novelty candidate. The Official Monster Raving Loony Party pretty much wrote the book on this sort of thing. And its leader, Alan ‘Howlin’ Laud Hope, will be lining up alongside 13 others…