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With no one else taking on Nigel Farage's self-indulgent, narcissistic by-election (or bye-election as Kemi Badenoch for once mildly amusingly hit on), Count Binface is set to be a suitable foil to Clacton's scion of a French refugee family (if you've ever wondered why it is Fa-raj rather than an F in Garage, that is why
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)"I will be a unity candidate," declared Binface. "Leave him to me!"
Anyone who has listened to the Count will find him firmly in the ranks of "serious joke" candidates, satirical rather than the slapstick that his appearance initially suggests. Look out his speech on truth to the Oxford University Union and you find someone profoundly more thoughtful than you'd imagine, and far more genuine than Farage.
Back in 1990, the similarly ego-driven venture known as the "Continuing SDP" led by David Owen after most of his party voted to unite with the Liberal Party into the Lib Dems was destroyed when it came behind the Monster Raving Loony Party in the Bottle by-election.
Nigel Farage was rejected thrice by the people of Clacton before his success on a minority vote in 2024. If enough of his constituents have tired of the sleeze-addled ex-City chancer, they could do worse than elect someone who can genuinely show up the whole circus for what it really is. Even if he doesn't win, a reduced majority for Nigel Five Mills could finally drive this most divisive snake oil salesman and his fellow travellers out of British politics for good.
We may be at a far more seminal moment than we dare to imagine.
Binface for MP!
