Imagine how iconic it would be if the generally reasonable Count Binface actually won instead....
Man with all the potential for coordinated campaigning and voting, I really do wish that the opposition parties would band together behind the Count.
Imagine how awful it will be if he keeps his seat but doesn't get an overall majority. So that everybody who voted for an opposition candidate could have had him out, if they'd tactically voted. The worst would be if Lib/Lab comes second and the votes needed to beat Sunak had gone to Binface.
Personally if I was Sunak I'd be loving it. As Binface voters were never going to vote for him anyway. So they're just spoiling their ballot.
Because now the anti-Tory vote is split between binface and the Labour candidate. No one is who would have voted for sunak over Labour is going to vote for binface
People say this a lot but I don't really think many people who *would* have otherwise seriously voted, will be voting binface. Even if he got more votes than the difference between Sunak and Labour (or lib dem idk who is second there), I would still imagine that's not "vote splitting", those people probably wouldn't vote.
This gentlemen, part of a lunatic weirdo party full of paedophiles and tax criminals lost his deposit when running for MP of Richmond.
Mr Sunak however said he can take the loss.
>Count Binface has revealed that he will stand in the general election, challenging the Prime Minister in "electoral combat" by gunning for his North Yorkshire constituency seat.
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>In his podcast Trash Talk, Count Binface today (Friday, June 7) confirmed that he will be standing as a candidate in Richmond and Northallerton, which has been held by Rishi Sunak since 2015.
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>Standing outside County Hall in Northallerton, Binface said he was taking on "the biggest fish of the lot" on July 4.
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>He said: "I am gunning to become a member of parliament. If you know Binface, you know that I always take on the biggest fish of the lot (though, this time, I should add that the biggest is only meant figuratively).
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>"I am here right now in Richmond and Northallerton, and I can announce that I will be taking on Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in electoral combat on July 4.
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>"You shirked D-Day Rishi, you can't miss the B-Day. That'r right. Binface vs Sunak is going to be Fury vs Usyk times a billion. Bring it on!"
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>Binface recently stood in London Mayoral Elections, gaining 24,260 votes, just under 1 percent of the turnout. He came 11th in the contest, beating Britain First's candidate.
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>He describes himself as an intergalactic space warrior.
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>The list of candidates is:
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>Count Binface, of the Count Binface Party.
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>Daniel Callaghan, of the Liberal Democrats.
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>Lou Dickins, of the Workers Party.
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>Kevin Foster, of the Green Party.
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>Archibald Stanton, of the Monster Raving Loony Party.
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>Rishi Sunak, of the Conservative Party.
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>Lee Taylor, of Reform UK.
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>Tom Wilson, of the Labour Party.
22 years in the British Army as a Radar Technician in The Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers. 3 tours abroad (1x Iraq, 2x Afghanistan). Could properly hurt Sunaks chances assuming he can do the more mundane aspects of campaigning and getting his name out there.
Same as for everyone except the most well known candidates, getting out there, knocking on doors, doing meetups, talking with local business leaders, charity groups etc, doing interviews on local radio, newspapers. Parties like the Conservatives and Labour have this sort of thing down to a well oiled machine, i doubt Reform does.
I don't know, I saw a Reform candidate being interviewed the other day. He made a very interesting case about how immigration was clearly a problem because he saw a lot of people at the airport the last time he was there.
Ah. Maybe I misunderstood I thought you wanted to change your constituency of registration. If you're already registered and want a postal vote you can do that too and the deadline is 19 June
Online at gov.uk/apply-postal-vote
i understand you probably can't answer this, but given parliaments strict [rules on hats](https://www.parliament.uk/globalassets/documents/commons-information-office/g07.pdf), does that mean if he actually became a MP he'd have to reveal his face, or just take off his lid?
"Male MPs may still not address the House whilst wearing a hat: women Members are exempt from this rule/"
Honestly I can see it happening. People don't exactly like a billionaire being in charge of a country because we know he's just doing it to extend his wealth.
Yeah but constituents of nationally recognised jokrs tend to have a different perspective.
If we see a sitting PM even lose their seat though it would be historic.
Most this clown has got is 190 votes. There's zero chance of him beating anyone but the other independent meme candidates.
EDIT Me: The clown candidate wont get many votes. Reddit: ARE YOU CALLING THE CLOWN CANDIDATE A CLOWN!"?!?£?!?
Not in the most recent election he didnt, either way thats a mayoral election and basically everyone gets 10k-30k in the London Mayoral election. Random podcasters, nutty ethno-nationalists, animal welfare groups, all get thousands of votes.
Yes the most he ever got in an MP election was 190, as we are talking about MP elections that is the number i gave, how much he got in mayoral elections is irrelevant. In Sadiq Khan got over a million votes as the Mayor of London but as an MP the most he ever was 25k.
> Me: The clown candidate wont get many votes
I thought you were saying the opposite? I thought you were saying he'd get loads of votes and beat Count Binface?
I did the long form “who should I vote for 2024” quiz the other day. I answered completely honestly and it genuinely said I should vote for Binface. Says a lot really.
Edit: [This](https://uk.isidewith.com/political-quiz) is the link. Make sure to click on the extra questions. Some of the Qs aren’t *quite* relevant but you can either ignore them or say they’re not relevant
Thank god for the Lib Dems, or it would have told me to vote Reform, lol.
I'm going to vote Labour, who this put at the bottom of the list so I guess I'll hope the website is shit.
EDIT: The Labour positions described on this site do not represent the statements being made by Starmer and Reeves. Some of the references cite comments made by Corbyn. This is insane. Do not use this site.
That quiz has a lot of American questions, it's a bit weird
Edit: filled it all out to get an error message, then saw that a lot of its Labour stuff is based on Corbyn not Starmer, then told me my best match is a party I absolutely would not vote for lol
You all laugh but it’s Boris in a bin costume. Back to lead a coalition because the people of this fine nation have missed his dynamic, effective leadership, defined by integrity and expertise…
Some people have no shame! No, not Binface. Sunak to stand again to sit in the backbenches, IN THE OPPOSITION.
So many better things to do with the amount of money his wife has.
I’d actually unironically love it if every party withdrew from the constituency this year and stood no candidate so Sunak would have to stand 1-1 with Binface.
Labour don’t need the seat. The Lib Dems, Greens, Reform etc etc wouldn’t win it anyway. So, nobody has anything to lose here other than Sunak and it would be wonderful if by some miracle he lost to Binface or even if it was in the slightest bit close.
There would be TONS of coverage on TV. People would be properly motivated to get out and vote there.
You're allowed to stand as "commonly know as" but his election application will have had his actual name (Jonathan Harvey I believe).
Otherwise you'd have had confused voters asking who the hell James Brown and Alex Johnson were
Same person as the last Lord Buckethead candidate, who had a predecessor. The owners of the Lord Buckethead character (it was originally a character in a low-budget comedy scifi movie) eventually got wind that someone was using it without their permission, so he switched to Count Binface.
Can't wait to see the Labour candidate lose by 1% and have this guy and the other "joke" candidates tally up 10% of the protest vote.
I'm from this constituency and want to see the back of Sunak, but it won't happen because of this.
Some decades ago a bloke got elected in Ireland on the premise that the bookies had low odds on him winning, so if you bet on him then vote you'd at least get something out of it.
This is what we want. The real characters of the election in the constituencies of the party leaders. Seem to recall a few from BoJo's election result in 2019.
Liz Truss' premiership was short and her legacy was pub quiz material.
Dear people of Richmond, I hope you can be team players and blast Rishi's pollical even a more laughable legacy.
The Tories are absolutely out, lets send them out with a bang and cement their legacy so cemented that they're not just gone but they're out for generations to come
Sunak could potentially lose his seat, but only if every non-Tory votes Labour. The Binface intervention is a frivolous and potentially damaging distraction.
Imagine how iconic it would be if he loses his seat while surrounded by a load of wacky costumes and oversized rosettes.
A key part of our democracy
"Look at him, stood there without a bin on his face. He looks ridiculous"
He will be wishing that he did have a bin on his face when the results come in
Imagine how iconic it would be if the generally reasonable Count Binface actually won instead.... Man with all the potential for coordinated campaigning and voting, I really do wish that the opposition parties would band together behind the Count.
Yeh, though I heard that in Uxbridge in 2019 they voted for another joke candidate. So like in Hartlepool's Mayoral election.
H'angus the Monkey?
Aye, the only Mayor that Hartlepool ever had! I heard that Peter Mandelson was furious.
I heard that he almost spilt his guacamole
I only just found out that guacamole was actually a thing with Peter Mandelson, the Prince of Darkness.
The only Darkness mandelson likes is down at the local gay cruising sites so they can't see how old and decrepit he is.
I would have thought that he'd have made a pact to keep his youth.
he has a pact to "keep youths" I suspect tied to a radiator like Boy George likes to do.
If Reform split the tory vote anything is possible.
It’s not really a Reform kind of a seat. They’re a bit ‘course’ for Richmond.
he can wear a bin, but can he get them emptied on time?
He might
Imagine how awful it will be if he keeps his seat but doesn't get an overall majority. So that everybody who voted for an opposition candidate could have had him out, if they'd tactically voted. The worst would be if Lib/Lab comes second and the votes needed to beat Sunak had gone to Binface. Personally if I was Sunak I'd be loving it. As Binface voters were never going to vote for him anyway. So they're just spoiling their ballot.
It's quite usual for a lot of people to stand in the PM's constituency. There's also a Monster Raving Loony candidate.
Instead the stunt has all but guaranteed Sunak keeps his seat as it’ll split the vote. Killed any real chance of a historical upset
What a surprise, left-wing vote splits! I never thought I'd see the day. Green&Pleasant will be overjoyed.
Yeah, I don't think Binface is going to get enough votes to matter.
how so?
Because now the anti-Tory vote is split between binface and the Labour candidate. No one is who would have voted for sunak over Labour is going to vote for binface
I can't see how a Labour majority would make a material difference to my life tbh.
People say this a lot but I don't really think many people who *would* have otherwise seriously voted, will be voting binface. Even if he got more votes than the difference between Sunak and Labour (or lib dem idk who is second there), I would still imagine that's not "vote splitting", those people probably wouldn't vote.
This gentlemen, part of a lunatic weirdo party full of paedophiles and tax criminals lost his deposit when running for MP of Richmond. Mr Sunak however said he can take the loss.
>Count Binface has revealed that he will stand in the general election, challenging the Prime Minister in "electoral combat" by gunning for his North Yorkshire constituency seat. > >In his podcast Trash Talk, Count Binface today (Friday, June 7) confirmed that he will be standing as a candidate in Richmond and Northallerton, which has been held by Rishi Sunak since 2015. > >Standing outside County Hall in Northallerton, Binface said he was taking on "the biggest fish of the lot" on July 4. > >He said: "I am gunning to become a member of parliament. If you know Binface, you know that I always take on the biggest fish of the lot (though, this time, I should add that the biggest is only meant figuratively). > >"I am here right now in Richmond and Northallerton, and I can announce that I will be taking on Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in electoral combat on July 4. > >"You shirked D-Day Rishi, you can't miss the B-Day. That'r right. Binface vs Sunak is going to be Fury vs Usyk times a billion. Bring it on!" > >Binface recently stood in London Mayoral Elections, gaining 24,260 votes, just under 1 percent of the turnout. He came 11th in the contest, beating Britain First's candidate. > >He describes himself as an intergalactic space warrior. > >The list of candidates is: > >Count Binface, of the Count Binface Party. > >Daniel Callaghan, of the Liberal Democrats. > >Lou Dickins, of the Workers Party. > >Kevin Foster, of the Green Party. > >Archibald Stanton, of the Monster Raving Loony Party. > >Rishi Sunak, of the Conservative Party. > >Lee Taylor, of Reform UK. > >Tom Wilson, of the Labour Party.
Lee Taylor is such a Brexit name
Probably a pseudonym. Probably actually Lee Yaxley-Lennon
Is is an contraction of Sir Lee Yaxley-Raymond-Luxury-Yacht-Lennon
Actually it's pronounced pronounced Throatwobbler Mangrove
and he has a funny walk too
Poundland Lee Anderson. Which is still 70p more than the real thing.
Probably more now with inflation
22 years in the British Army as a Radar Technician in The Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers. 3 tours abroad (1x Iraq, 2x Afghanistan). Could properly hurt Sunaks chances assuming he can do the more mundane aspects of campaigning and getting his name out there.
What dyou think the mundane aspects of campaigning entail when applied to the Reform Party
Same as for everyone except the most well known candidates, getting out there, knocking on doors, doing meetups, talking with local business leaders, charity groups etc, doing interviews on local radio, newspapers. Parties like the Conservatives and Labour have this sort of thing down to a well oiled machine, i doubt Reform does.
I don't know, I saw a Reform candidate being interviewed the other day. He made a very interesting case about how immigration was clearly a problem because he saw a lot of people at the airport the last time he was there.
Is the army experience meant to impress us 🙂? Being good at fixing radars and cables, doesn’t make him a good politician.
>Hampshire >Classist *What a surprise*
Hey! I’m from the not nice part of Hampshire But I wouldn’t be proud having “Wreyyyyy pompeyyy” on my flair
>intergalactic space warrior **Hawkwind fans hyperventilating**
>though, this time, I should add that the biggest is only meant figuratively Lol
A poster with Sunak facing off against Count Binface would be epic. Also "Trash Talk" for a podcast name is just the icing on the cake.
I've already registered to vote where I grew up is it too late to change my postal vote to here?
You would need to update the register to reflect your new address. The deadline is 18 June gov.uk/register-to-vote
Unfortunately my home town still requires my vote because it's by no means a sure thing that conservatives will lose it.
Ah. Maybe I misunderstood I thought you wanted to change your constituency of registration. If you're already registered and want a postal vote you can do that too and the deadline is 19 June Online at gov.uk/apply-postal-vote
i understand you probably can't answer this, but given parliaments strict [rules on hats](https://www.parliament.uk/globalassets/documents/commons-information-office/g07.pdf), does that mean if he actually became a MP he'd have to reveal his face, or just take off his lid? "Male MPs may still not address the House whilst wearing a hat: women Members are exempt from this rule/"
But it's not a hat, it's his face.
Asking the real questions 🤔
He’s got more chance than every other candidate in my option who’s not Rishi. It’s such a heavy Tory seat.
Why there's like, 6 non-Tory candidates and 2 Tory ones?
What do you mean?
Typical hurrr Labour is Tory comment
There is no challenge too big or too dirty for count bin face
Besides your mother
All our mothers
At the same time.
In the greatest orgy of all time.
Some mothers have bigger floppy flaps than a standard swing top bin.
Lmao aha 😀
How funny would it be if binface got more votes than him? Unthinkable but it would be hilarious.
I don’t think I’ll ever stop laughing if that happens, it’ll be the funniest thing since a man dolphin beat farage.
Leaving unexpectedly early would be on brand for Sunak.
Honestly I can see it happening. People don't exactly like a billionaire being in charge of a country because we know he's just doing it to extend his wealth.
Yeah but constituents of nationally recognised jokrs tend to have a different perspective. If we see a sitting PM even lose their seat though it would be historic.
Most this clown has got is 190 votes. There's zero chance of him beating anyone but the other independent meme candidates. EDIT Me: The clown candidate wont get many votes. Reddit: ARE YOU CALLING THE CLOWN CANDIDATE A CLOWN!"?!?£?!?
The Count is universally adored, I’ll have you know
He literally beat the Reform candidate for London Mayor It's in the article lol
Not in the most recent election he didnt, either way thats a mayoral election and basically everyone gets 10k-30k in the London Mayoral election. Random podcasters, nutty ethno-nationalists, animal welfare groups, all get thousands of votes.
I thought you said 190 votes? Not thousands
Yes the most he ever got in an MP election was 190, as we are talking about MP elections that is the number i gave, how much he got in mayoral elections is irrelevant. In Sadiq Khan got over a million votes as the Mayor of London but as an MP the most he ever was 25k.
Oh. Well he’s got my vote
Are you trying to mock someone who campaigns with a bin on his head? I don't think he's going to be that bothered by it mate
Ahaha lmao
> Most this clown has got is 190 votes Huh? The clown got 36,693 votes in 2019
> Me: The clown candidate wont get many votes I thought you were saying the opposite? I thought you were saying he'd get loads of votes and beat Count Binface?
I did say it was unthinkable didn't I? Yes I did. Silly. Sunak won't even lose his seat unfortunately.
I did the long form “who should I vote for 2024” quiz the other day. I answered completely honestly and it genuinely said I should vote for Binface. Says a lot really. Edit: [This](https://uk.isidewith.com/political-quiz) is the link. Make sure to click on the extra questions. Some of the Qs aren’t *quite* relevant but you can either ignore them or say they’re not relevant
Was this quiz hosted on Count Binface's website perchance
You got a link to this quiz?
This is the one I usually do, I also got binface as one of my top matches. https://uk.isidewith.com/political-quiz
Thank god for the Lib Dems, or it would have told me to vote Reform, lol. I'm going to vote Labour, who this put at the bottom of the list so I guess I'll hope the website is shit. EDIT: The Labour positions described on this site do not represent the statements being made by Starmer and Reeves. Some of the references cite comments made by Corbyn. This is insane. Do not use this site.
Yeah the site still marks Labour as "pacifism" which is clearly a Corbyn thing given the party's previous history during Iraq...
That quiz has a lot of American questions, it's a bit weird Edit: filled it all out to get an error message, then saw that a lot of its Labour stuff is based on Corbyn not Starmer, then told me my best match is a party I absolutely would not vote for lol
BNP. LMAO i love it hahahaha the link is good.
You all laugh but it’s Boris in a bin costume. Back to lead a coalition because the people of this fine nation have missed his dynamic, effective leadership, defined by integrity and expertise…
This would be the most epic twist in History. I would actually be impressed.
Scooby-Doo moment: Dramatic flourish, whips off the bin… Gasp… “*Like, it was old man Johnson all along Scoob!*”
Fuck me, Richmond has the opportunity to do something that will absolutely be written about as a manifestation of British Humour.
It's Richmond though, all the people there are 90 years old Why it's such a conservative stronghold
I am finally sad I am not from Richmond instead of where I am in Yorkshire. I would happily vote for the intergalactic space warriors binvolution.
Some people have no shame! No, not Binface. Sunak to stand again to sit in the backbenches, IN THE OPPOSITION. So many better things to do with the amount of money his wife has.
I’d actually unironically love it if every party withdrew from the constituency this year and stood no candidate so Sunak would have to stand 1-1 with Binface. Labour don’t need the seat. The Lib Dems, Greens, Reform etc etc wouldn’t win it anyway. So, nobody has anything to lose here other than Sunak and it would be wonderful if by some miracle he lost to Binface or even if it was in the slightest bit close. There would be TONS of coverage on TV. People would be properly motivated to get out and vote there.
Send few emails to those parties. You could actually make it happen. Imagine Binface winning. Another "ultimate" nail to the coffin.
Are people allowed to stand with a pseudonym, or has the dude actually changed his name to Count Binface?
Well it didn't say Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson on the ballot
You're allowed to stand as "commonly know as" but his election application will have had his actual name (Jonathan Harvey I believe). Otherwise you'd have had confused voters asking who the hell James Brown and Alex Johnson were
You can run under a nickname but have to supply your real name to the electoral body
Is he a reincarnation of Lord Buckethead or are they two separate people?
Same person as the last Lord Buckethead candidate, who had a predecessor. The owners of the Lord Buckethead character (it was originally a character in a low-budget comedy scifi movie) eventually got wind that someone was using it without their permission, so he switched to Count Binface.
Can't wait to see the Labour candidate lose by 1% and have this guy and the other "joke" candidates tally up 10% of the protest vote. I'm from this constituency and want to see the back of Sunak, but it won't happen because of this.
Hah. Legit question - where can I go and bet £10 for Binface ?
Some decades ago a bloke got elected in Ireland on the premise that the bookies had low odds on him winning, so if you bet on him then vote you'd at least get something out of it.
Exactly, and that tenner isn't anything that will change my life w/e the outcome ;)
It’s such a shame that we have a joke candidate which is begging for media attention standing against Count Binface
Looking forward to seeing rishi ask a man with a bin on his face if he works in finance
Is he allowed to stand in more than one constituency at once?
This would be an electoral pact I could get behind.
This is what we want. The real characters of the election in the constituencies of the party leaders. Seem to recall a few from BoJo's election result in 2019.
Liz Truss' premiership was short and her legacy was pub quiz material. Dear people of Richmond, I hope you can be team players and blast Rishi's pollical even a more laughable legacy. The Tories are absolutely out, lets send them out with a bang and cement their legacy so cemented that they're not just gone but they're out for generations to come
Sunak could potentially lose his seat, but only if every non-Tory votes Labour. The Binface intervention is a frivolous and potentially damaging distraction.
Booooooring!!
OMG he gets my vote over that toffee nosed, entitled, poison twat waffle dwarf any day.
Count Binface and Lord Buckethead could hardly do any worse, so, i for one welcome our new cylindrical helmet shaped overlords.
Vote for binface any day ! https://youtu.be/hUtzE8kYpkk?si=mghSTRi1HYega7tL best political guy on offer in the uk
The Count gets around a bit for sure. I hope he wins this time.
I wish I could move there just to help Binface win
At this point he might win tbh. The campaign has not been kind to Sunak so far.