Now that hereditary peers no longer sit in the Lords, there is nothing to stop them sitting in the Commons and several have done so.
Count Binface’s candidacy is very reminiscent of Al Murray’s candidacy against Farage in South Thanet in 2015. That didn’t affect the outcome - Farage still came second - but Murray, standing for ‘FUKP’, did a great job of satirising him by proposing lots of absurd, Little Englander policies.
Ah, Britain, you magnificent weirdos. Never change.
I want Count Binface to run here in America next. Or the very least someone else to pick up the act and duplicate it here.
(Not sure if I’m joking or not…) 
Considering what happened with Trump, I wouldn’t take that as a given. What are a few felonies besides evidence that the system really is being weaponized against you?
Let me help.
As an aside, in older pictures I’m finding, his bin is much smaller, only about half the current height.
Clearly, members of Binface’s species’ heads continue to grow throughout their lives, and they need to periodically molt and grow new, larger carapaces.
Btw I probably should have posted this earlier but the whole thing is already at levels of hilarity and farce that no one could have anticipated.
Since binface is the main rival for the seat, he’s guaranteed a certain amount of airtime. So serious political shows have invited him on.
If you’re into maths geekery Matt Parker made this admittedly longish video about the terrible usage of charts in election leaflets and worked with Count Binface to ensure that Binface’s election leaflets used only accurate and non-misleading charts. I really enjoyed this.
Lord Buckethead, who Count Binface is based on (and he used the “Lord Buckethead” name previously until he changed it to avoid IP infringement accusations) had a more slender and, dare we say, “lower budget” version of the head.
This timeline is getting weirder every year.
I of course welcome the intervention of surrealism as a particularly British antidote to US style and funded fascism.
You do us proud. So proud.
And the other political parties, clearing the field to leave that human grommet of self-indulgence with the indignity of being forced to wave his finger at a cartoon character in a debate.
My only question: What is candidate Count Binface’s stance on Brexit?
FARAGE!
That is all
I imagined Binface screaming this in anger like Kirk yelling KHAN!
I don’t normally follow UK politics that closely, but this whole situation just tickles me.
Right? Makes me proud of my ancestry. I just wish I’d been born there.
Just to clarify this, if Binface wins, the investigation into Farage is moot and Binface will serve a full, likely multi-year, term. So I guess there is some risk to the other parties this time around, in that if anyone but Farage wins none of them can claim the seat.
By the way, am I the only person who keeps reading his name as Count Boniface?
The individual candidates might be disappointed by that, but I’d think that the parties as a whole would be delighted to be rid of him.
Precious little clarification in that post:
They have a vacancy … this strange character died today …
Upon looking it up, when Farage was elected to his seat in Clacton in 2024, he won with 46.2% of the vote, with the Tories picking up 27.9%, Labour 16.2%, and minor parties the balance.
https://members.parliament.uk/constituency/3989/election/422
If every single Clactonite who didn’t vote for him in 2024 were to vote for Count Binface, he could actually win this thing.
And that’s a timeline I want to live in.
It would be too good to be true.
Sadly, then, it won’t be true.