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Count Binface
- mpeg 2y agoI'm appalled that the Count Binface wikipedia article has no picture on it
- noman-land 2y agoBe the change you want to see.
- tim333 2y agoWe need to find a creative commons pic.
- ianpurton 2y ago> All government ministers' pay, including that of the mayors, should be tied to that of nurses for the next 100 years. A brilliant policy.
- riffraff 2y agoDidn't the UK use to have a joke candidate called "lord Buckethead" too? I'm pretty sure I saw him on some stage with Theresa May. Is it related to the count? In somewhat related news, Hungary has a joke-ish party called the "Hungarian two-tailed dog party"[0], which does a lot or civic work but usually campaigns with slogans such as "more of everything less of nothing", "100% more happiness", sends people on tv tribunes dressed like chickens etc.. This year they managed to elect the major of a district in Budapest which has been controlled by Fidesz since forever. Do not underestimate jokes. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_Two-Tailed_Dog_Party https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_Two-Tailed_Dog_Par...
- graemep 2y agoThe best known in the UK was probably Screaming Lord Such: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screaming_Lord_Sutch https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screaming_Lord_Sutch Absolutely right about the power of jokes.
- omnicognate 2y agoSame guy - from tfa: > In earlier elections, Harvey stood as Lord Buckethead, but was forced to change the character due to a copyright dispute with the American filmmaker Todd Durham, who created Lord Buckethead for his 1984 science fiction film Hyperspace.
- tylerhannan 2y agoThere is something about this that makes me so very happy.
- jakeweary 2y agoSadiq Khan shaking Count Binface's hand during the London mayoral results announcement is rather touching. https://youtu.be/jkbX0DBhvKE?si=LAz-9-9JYM0N0EBy https://youtu.be/jkbX0DBhvKE?si=LAz-9-9JYM0N0EBy
- tim333 2y agoHe kind of did a service to Khan by beating the far right candidate.
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- extasia 2y ago> Binface announced a series of satirical policies for the 2019 general election, including: Bringing back Ceefax, the teletext service.[9] He had previously promised to bring back the service in 2017 as Lord Buckethead.[12] Returning 20,001 police officers to the street, a reference to the Conservative pledge of 20,000 more police officers.[13] Nationalising model railways.[14] Holding a referendum on holding a second referendum on the United Kingdom's membership in the European Union.[14] Allowing any Czechs on the Irish border to remain.[14] Nationalising Adele, the English singer.[15] Abolishing the House of Lords.[15] He had previously pledged the same in 2017 as Lord Buckethead.[16] Giving free broadband to everyone.[15] Stopping the sale of arms to repressive regimes.[15] Making Piers Morgan zero emissions by 2030.[15] Renaming London Bridge to "Phoebe Waller-Bridge".[15] Introducing a minimum voting age of 16 and a maximum of 80.[15] Sending £1 trillion a week to the NHS.[14] Proroguing Jacob Rees-Mogg.[14] Banishing Katie Hopkins to the Phantom Zone.[14] Moving the hand dryer in the men's toilet at Uxbridge's Crown and Treaty pub to a "more sensible position".[14]
- arethuza 2y agoClearly Count Binface not being in the House of Lords is some kind of administrative oversight?
- tialaramex 2y agoThe modern Lords is composed of a mix of Life Peers, who were sent there in their lifetime by the Monarch, generally in fact as a result of the government of the day (ie elected politicians) choosing them†, and a fixed number (from the pool) of Hereditary Peers, who have inherited this honour typically (but not always) from their father and so on, perhaps for centuries. Historically all the Peers could sit, today a fixed number of Hereditary Peers are chosen, the rest get the same title etc. but have no role in Parliament. An election is held (internally) to decide who gets to do this, on the one hand it is paid (a few hundred pounds for each day you're there, so real money albeit you wouldn't get rich) but you're expected to actually do something useful, which if you are accustomed to just sitting on your backside getting rich off the labour of others will be a nasty surprise. So, even if Binface were actually a peer (which he is not) he wouldn't necessarily be in the Lords today, and actually if he was in the Lords that means he'd need to quit to become an MP as it's not legal to be both - historically it wasn't even possible to quit but somebody in the Lords really wanted to be an elected politician in the 20th century so the rules were changed to allow them to stop being a Lord -- interestingly the law actually doesn't destroy the peerage, if you're a hereditary peer and you want to be an MP so you give that up the peerage exists anyway when you die and it gets inherited as normal. † This is as self-serving and corrupt in practice as you'd expect. For every famously charitable sports person and beloved actor honoured, expect a career politician looking to retire, a party donor and some dodgy business guy who in a century everybody will know was a crook or a rapist or both... But in principle they could just send the nice lady who taught a generation of kids to read, that bloke who won six Olympic medals and somebody who was born with no legs and yet single handedly saved all the kids in a burning orphanage, so there's that.
- jsheard 2y agoBinface getting more votes than the neo-fascist Britain First in the recent mayoral elections was cathartic. They tried to play it off that they weren't really trying to win so it doesn't count, and they're definitely not mad, please don't put in the newspaper that they got mad.
- ta1243 2y agoJeremy Vine analasys: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVEI1jOR-0U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVEI1jOR-0U
- ButterWashed 2y agoHis recent announcement to bring in a policy to make former Prime Ministers do National Service really did bring tears of laughter to my eyes.
- thih9 2y agoVoting in the UK has its own flavor. Somewhat related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Tobin_(astronomer) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Tobin_(astronomer) > In the 2019 United Kingdom general election he stood as an independent candidate against Boris Johnson in the Uxbridge and South Ruislip constituency. As he had not resided in Britain for more than 15 years he was ineligible to vote but eligible to stand as a candidate. He focused his campaign on voting rights using the slogan "Don't vote for Tobin, let Tobin vote". He gained five votes.
- masfuerte 2y agoHe got his wish. The tories removed the 15 year limit in 2022. eta: I just noticed that he died on 7th July 2022. The law came into effect on 28th April 2022 but he never got a chance to use it.
- drcongo 2y agoAnd somewhat related to that, astronomer Patrick Moore used to be the chair of a far-right anti-immigration party. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Country_Party_(United_Kingdom) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Country_Party_(United_K...
- mhh__ 2y agoI may be being a bit sour but I haven't found Binface funny for years now.
- einpoklum 2y agoBinface vs Rishi Sunak! Now there's a match between candidates of a similar political caliber. Anyway, watch the interview with Count Binface after his participation in the London mayoral election: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WncWiGYNCeg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WncWiGYNCeg
- beardyw 2y agoProud that the UK leads the world: List of frivolous political parties - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_frivolous_political_parties https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_frivolous_political_pa...
- VyseofArcadia 2y agoSee also, on the other side of the pond, Vermin Supreme: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermin_Supreme https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermin_Supreme
- ThrowawayTestr 2y agoI've been wary of joke candidates ever since I watched that black mirror episode
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- kitd 2y ago> Make your vote COUNT Genius!
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