Count Binface on Clacton byelection: ‘I didn’t know old Farage was going to self-detonate’

Nigel Farage, the leader of Britain’s hard-right Reform UK party, made an earnest televised statement Tuesday detailing a political gamble designed to fend off questions about his finances.

Count Binface is Britain’s most persistent intergalactic space warrior and a beloved fixture of UK elections — a man in a bin-shaped helmet who turns serious politics into performance art.

Count Binface is a former comedy writer playing politics for laughs

The Reform UK leader’s hopes of turning the contest into a battle “against the establishment” in tatters as all other major parties boycott the vote, leaving comedic candidate Count Binface as his leading rival