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Count Binface
First appearance 12 December 2018
Portrayed by Jonathan Harvey (2018–present)
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Gender Male
Occupation Political satirist
Nationality British

Count Binface is a satirical political candidate created by British comedian Jonathan Harvey in 2018. He was a candidate for Uxbridge and South Ruislip in the 2019 United Kingdom general election against prime minister Boris Johnson. He also stood in the 2021 London mayoral election.

In earlier elections Harvey stood as Lord Buckethead, but was forced to change the name due to a copyright dispute with American filmmaker Todd Durham, who created the character for his 1984 science fiction film Hyperspace. Another individual contested the Uxbridge and South Ruislip seat as Buckethead, representing the Official Monster Raving Loony Party, to which Binface said he "look[s] forward to both the hustings and to challenging [him] to take part in a receptacle-to-receptacle debate".

Character

Count Binface is an independent space warrior in a black and grey costume, with a long silver cape and a helmet shaped somewhat like a dustbin with a glowing strip where his eyes would be. Binface claimed to be 5,965 years old in 2019.

2019 general election policies

Binface announced a series of satirical policies for the 2019 general election, including:

  • Bringing back Ceefax, the teletext service. He had previously promised to bring back the service in 2017 as Lord Buckethead.
  • Returning 20,001 police officers to the street, a reference to the Conservative pledge of 20,000 more police officers.
  • Nationalising model railways.
  • Holding a referendum on holding a second referendum on the United Kingdom's membership in the European Union.
  • Allowing any Czechs on the Irish Border to remain.
  • Nationalising Adele, the English singer.
  • Abolishing the House of Lords. He had previously pledged the same in 2017 as Lord Buckethead.
  • Giving free broadband to everyone,
  • Stopping the sale of arms to repressive regimes.
  • Making Piers Morgan zero emissions by 2030.
  • Renaming London Bridge to "Phoebe Waller-Bridge".
  • Introducing a minimum voting age of 16 and a maximum of 80.
  • Sending £1 trillion a week to the NHS,
  • Proroguing Jacob Rees-Mogg,
  • Banishing Katie Hopkins to the Phantom Zone.
  • Moving the hand dryer in the men's toilet at Uxbridge's Crown and Treaty pub to a "more sensible position".

London mayoral election

Binface announced his intention to stand for the London Mayoral Election, which was originally scheduled for 2020, but was delayed until 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. He announced a suite of 21 policies which "marries fiscal responsibility, social awareness, and not being an anti-vaccine nutjob", including:

Binface started a fundraiser to raise £10,000, the amount necessary to allow him to stand for Mayor of London. The excess money was donated to charity Shelter to help combat homelessness.

He finished 9th with 24,775 votes in the mayoral election.

Electoral history

General election 2019: Uxbridge and South Ruislip
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Boris Johnson 25,351 52.6 +1.8
Labour Ali Milani 18,141 37.6 -2.4
Liberal Democrats Joanne Humphreys 3,026 6.3 +2.3
Green Mark Keir 1,090 2.3 +0.4
UKIP Geoffrey Courtenay 283 0.6 -2.8
Monster Raving Loony Lord Buckethead 125 0.3 N/A
Independent Count Binface 69 0.1 N/A
Independent Alfie Utting 44 0.1 N/A
Independent Yace Yogenstein 23 0.0 N/A
Independent Norma Burke 22 0.0 N/A
Independent Bobby Elmo Smith 8 0.0 N/A
Independent William Tobin 5 0.0 N/A
Turnout 48,174 68.5 +1.7
Mayor of London election 6 May 2021
Party Candidate 1st Round  % 2nd Round Total  First Round Votes  Transfer Votes 
Labour Sadiq Khan 1,013,721 40.0% 192,313 1,206,034
Conservative Shaun Bailey 893,051 35.3% 84,550 977,601
Green Siân Berry 197,976 7.8%
Liberal Democrat Luisa Porritt 111,716 4.4%
Independent Niko Omilana 49,628 2.0%
Reclaim Laurence Fox 47,634 1.9%
London Real Brian Rose 31,111 1.2%
Rejoin EU Richard Hewison 28,012 1.1%
Count Binface Count Binface 24,775 1.0%
Women's Equality Mandu Reid 21,182 0.8%
Let London Live Piers Corbyn 20,604 0.8%
Animal Welfare Party Vanessa Hudson 16,826 0.7%
UKIP Peter Gammons 14,393 0.6%
Independent Farah London 11,869 0.5%
Heritage Party David Kurten 11,025 0.4%
Independent Nims Obunge 9,682 0.4%
Social Democratic Party Steve Kelleher 8,764 0.3%
Renew Party Kam Balayev 7,774 0.3%
Independent Max Fosh 6,309 0.2%
Burning Pink Valerie Brown 5,305 0.2%
Labour hold
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