Count Binface

"Harvey previously stood as a similar character, Lord Buckethead, but was forced to create a new character due to a dispute with the filmmaker Todd Durham, who owns the Buckethead character" [1].

(The videos on this website are worth the watch. Hilarious, of course. But also...Binface conjugates Latin to Sky News, and not just as a bit. I don't know how I feel about the British comedy candidate outclassing half of the American elected leadership–and a good fraction of its industrial leadership–on IQ.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Count_Binface

I wish Count Binface all the best for the Clacton by-election.

Edited to add: Some of my favourite commentary around this by-election is along the lines of:

A fundamentally un-serious candidate with no coherent policies or political experience running against Count Binface.

There's a long tradition in the UK of comedy candidates, notably the Monster Raving Loony Party.

There's even some talk of a potential Loony-Bin alliance.

> I’m an intergalactic space warrior and leader of the Recyclons from planet Sigma IX.

Ok you have my vote.

Related mini-discussion the other day:

Farage left fighting a trash can as the UK populist's election gamble backfires

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48848034

(In the US, his name would translate as Count Trash Can-Face or Count Garbage Can-Face.)

With this much memery he would probably win the presidential election in the US.

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Prior art: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boaty_McBoatface