LONDON: British politics has a long-cherished reputation for attracting the weird and wonderful.
But in a pantheon of colorful characters, Count Binface, a man wearing a rubbish bin over his head, is stealing the show.
The self-described “intergalactic space warrior” from the fictional planet Sigma IX takes on hard-line anti-immigrant politician Nigel Farage on Thursday in the Clacton by-election, triggered when the Reform UK leader resigned in a shock move.
With Farage running again for his seat, none of the UK’s mainstream political parties is fielding candidates, having dismissed the move as a stunt designed to stall a parliamentary inquiry into his finances.
That has left the door open to Count Binface, and a host of other independent and parody candidates.
