If elected as Clacton-on-Sea’s MP, Count Binface’s first act will be to increase the size of the door aperture in the House of Commons. At eight feet tall he’ll need the room. “I’m sick of banging my head,” he says.
Nigel Farage’s chief rival in the Reform UK leader’s self-inflicted by-election is sitting down to speak exclusively to The i Paper at an unlikely venue: a Toby Carvery overlooking the North Sea.
The “intergalactic space warrior” and “leader of the Recyclons from the planet Sigma IX” is a novelty candidate who, amid the jokes, will make some serious points. But first, the trivia.
Binface’s pledges include bringing back Ceefax, a “windfall tax on cosy crime novels” written by so-called celebrities, capping the price of a croissant at £1 and making the village of Weeley, five miles north of Clacton, his Bin HQ. He has also promised to make arcade grabber machines “fairer so players actually have a chance to win”.
Nationalising Adele and taxing ‘cosy crime novels’
