Count Binface reveals his promises to Londoners if he wins the mayoral election
Count Binface, the self-proclaimed ‘space warrior’, has unveiled his promises to Londoners if he wins the mayoral election.
The election will take place on May 2, with 11 candidates fighting for the most powerful mayoral role in the country.
After announcing it was time to ‘take out the rubbish’, the fancy-dress man has told the BBC he is ‘looking for a Champions League place’ this year after finishing ninth in the 2021 polls.
Binface has also said that he is ‘the only fresh thing on the menu as all other politicians are rubbish’.
Now, in a post on X, the candidate has said in his manifesto that he wants to ‘build at least one affordable house’ and demolish the Millennium Dome to make way for a nature reserve.
Coun Binface, pictured, has unveiled his promises to Londoners if he wins the mayoral election
Shops will also be banned from selling croissants for anything less than £1.10, which was the same promise he made in 2021.
London Bridge will also be named after actress Phoebe Waller-Bridge under his leadership and Ceefax will be brought back, he announced.
The manifesto also includes a commitment to use a windfall tax on oil companies to pay for a new electric car for every Londoner who cannot afford a compliant vehicle
Binface has stood in four elections previously, including the last mayoral election in 2021.
He received 24,775 first preference votes compared to Laurence Fox’s 47,634 and Piers Corbyn’s 20,604.
Labour’s Sadiq Khan won with 1,013,721 votes, while Conservative Shaun Bailey came second with 893,051.
Binface is also the only candidate to stand twice in Boris Johnson’s former constituency of Uxbridge and South Ruislip. In the election in July 2023, he received 190 votes.
Binface, played by satirical comedian Jonathan Harvey, follows in the long tradition of joke candidates running for high-profile elections in Britain.
Lord Buckethead stood against prime ministers in elections for over 30 years, first standing against Margaret Thatcher.
It took its name from a 1984 film Gremloids, but the filmmaker eventually objected.
The election will take place on May 2, with 11 candidates fighting for the most powerful mayoral role in the country
Labor candidate Sadiq Khan is seeking a third term as mayor in May. Pictured, Mr Khan as he was sworn in for a second term
Since 2017, Lord Buckethead has been renamed Count Binface, citing ‘a nasty fight on the planet Copyright’ as the reason for his regeneration.
Lord Buckethead stood in Theresa May’s Maidenhead constituency in the 2017 general election and was even flown to the US to appear on John Oliver’s HBO show Last Week Tonight.
The British comedian presented him as a candidate for chief Brexit negotiator in Mrs May’s embattled cabinet.
The candidate entered the show with all the pomp and ceremony an intergalactic Lord deserves, a cloud of dry ice around his knees.
Despite the clear novelty factor of his campaign, Lord Buckethead distributed an impressive 4,000 leaflets during the 2019 campaign.
The announcement of Binface’s upcoming campaign in the next mayoral election comes as a record number of ballot papers were destroyed last time.
In 2021, around 114,000 ballot papers were destroyed after the first round of voting because the 20 candidates packed on one sheet of A4 paper confused voters into either accidentally ticking the first choice column twice or selecting too many candidates.
With the first four lines of candidates featuring mainly jokesters, public opinion may have been “de-selected”, according to one political expert.
Lord Buckethead poses with this fellow candidate Theresa May at the 2019 election count
Chris Stafford, a PhD researcher at the University of Nottingham, told MailOnline that the record number of candidates – including three YouTubers and a number of anti-lockdown campaigners – ‘could be a sign of general dissatisfaction with major mainstream political parties’.
Coun Binface and old Harrovian YouTuber Max Fosh, 26, who said he wanted to annoy Laurence Fox, were among the unprecedented number of candidates running for mayor.
Mr. Fox, a 42-year-old actor, also stood for election but lost his £10,000 deposit after securing less than two per cent of the vote.
London mayoral elections use the supplementary vote system, which meant that voters chose their first and second choices. If no candidate secured more than 50 percent of the vote when the first preferences were counted, the second choice was counted in a runoff between the top two candidates.