Who is Count Binface? The 'independent space warrior' taking on Nigel Farage
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Who is the man behind the bin?

Count Binface is the only candidate to declare he will take on Mr Farage in Clacton so far.

Labour, the Conservatives, the Liberal Democrats, the Greens and Restore Britain have all said they will not field candidates in the by-election.

  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    23·
    7 days ago

    I, for one, appreciate that actual UK reality has essentially become a Monty Python sketch.

    Much better than our US ‘reality TV show’ President/reality.

    • cynar@lemmy.worldEnglish
      20·
      7 days ago

      It’s a very British style protest. Farage tried to turn an investigation/resignation/bielection into a media circus. The larger parties instead stepped aside to let the clown in to deal with him.

  • Corngood@lemmy.mlEnglish
    122·
    8 days ago

    he has promised to “build at least one affordable house”.

    The oligarchs will never let him win

  • palordrolap@fedia.io
    66·
    8 days ago

    Binface could easily do better than Farage has. I mean, it’s not exactly a high bar.

    Farage barely shows his face there and almost never in Parliament.

    You can guarantee that Binface would be more than willing to show up in both places frequently. He might even go so far as to represent Clacton properly. Perish the thought!

    (I can imagine that if he won they wouldn’t let him into the Commons due to not being dressed sensibly and then refusing to recognise him if he does so, because that’s the sort of dirty trickery I’d expect from Parliament. So I’d be very interested to see what he does in order to comply with both directives at the same time.)

    • cynar@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      7 days ago

      Didn’t Mexico have a similar issue a year or so ago?

      Someone ran and was elected under his mexican wrestling persona. He attended parliament with his mask on. He insisted, since he was elected under his masked persona, he would attend parliament under it.

      He originally did it because cartels had targeted MPs, and he ran on an anti cartel manifesto.

    • Olap@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      8 days ago

      Yes, I had the same thought. He could wear a shirt of himself perhaps, or perhaps plastic bin armour (which probably isn’t against rules, you must only surrender your sword). Or of course, de-mask during the acceptance speech and then request that his oath is taken solely with the costume, representing his mandate from the elected people of Clacton as a compromise. Or refuse his seat without the bin. Can hardly be worse than Farage in this regard

  • Fishnoodle@lemmy.worldEnglish
    47·
    8 days ago

    Honestly, he put a lot of effort into that costume, and he’s not an elitist parasite. I say give him a chance.

    • dbtng@eviltoast.orgOPEnglish
      151·
      7 days ago

      UK’s Zelensky.
      Not that needing a Zelensky bodes well for for them, but as you say, they could do much worse than a trashy man of steel with a sense of humor.

  • velma@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    373·
    8 days ago

    I read the title as “A Stunning Cunt” initially and I’m almost sad there wasn’t a glorious vagina here instead lol

        • dbtng@eviltoast.orgOPEnglish
          62·
          7 days ago

          Well … no!
          Nobody said you were wrong … right?
          The point here is that you now know a new form of joke, the Cockney Rhyming Slang.
          You can recognize it in the future. And you know, laugh. Or something.

            • Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              5·
              7 days ago

              Yeah. From a character in a Dicken’s (?) book who swaps the beginning sounds of words. I think he’s called Captain Spoon in the book.

              Something along the lines of Berkeley Hunt (you absolute berk) is more rhyming slang.

            • dbtng@eviltoast.orgOPEnglish
              2·
              7 days ago

              Huh. I think you are correct. It’s a quote from Binface, you know. Last line.
              "Are they running scared from old Binny, or do they think that Nigel’s running a cunning stunt?”
              Something about it sounds very UK to me.

  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
    24·
    7 days ago

    https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jul/08/clacton-byelection-likely-to-be-two-man-race-between-reform-leader-and-binface

    Farage has sought to portray the byelection as a “people versus the establishment” contest, prompting Conservative leader, Kemi Badenoch, to describe Binface as the “people’s candidate”. The prime minister, Keir Starmer, even addressed his candidacy on the sidelines of the Nato summit. “I think it’s actually against Labour party rules to endorse another [candidate],” he said.

    For the man himself, or rather the alien, it’s all come as a bit of a shock. The question of whether he might even win is one that he is reluctant to countenance. “It’s earliest days yet and there is a long old road to go, but if in the unlikely event that the humans of Clacton prefer me to old Nige, then I will do my very best to represent them,” he told the Guardian.

    Farage is the favourite, but odds on Binface winning have been tumbling. Oddschecker, which provides betting odds from some of the UK’s most popular bookmakers, said odds on the underdog winning had been slashed from 5/1 into 7/2.