Count Binface is a satirical political candidate created by the British comedian Jonathan David Harvey^[1] in 2018.^[2] He was a candidate for Uxbridge and South Ruislip in the 2019 United Kingdom general election against former prime minister Boris Johnson. He also stood in the 2021 London mayoral election. He is currently running in the 2024 London mayoral election.^[3]

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.^[4][5]

In 2019, 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".^[6]

When Johnson resigned as an MP in 2023, Binface again stood as a candidate in the Uxbridge and South Ruislip by-election, finishing eighth of 17.

Count Binface is an independent space warrior^[7] 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.^[8]

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

• Bringing back Ceefax, the teletext service.^[7] He had previously promised to bring back the service in 2017 as Lord Buckethead.^[9]
• Returning 20,001 police officers to the street, a reference to the Conservative pledge of 20,000 more police officers.^[10]
• Nationalising model railways.^[11]
• Holding a referendum on holding a second referendum on the United Kingdom's membership in the European Union.^[11]
• Allowing any Czechs on the Irish Border to remain.^[11]
• Nationalising Adele, the English singer.^[12]
• Abolishing the House of Lords.^[12] He had previously pledged the same in 2017 as Lord Buckethead.^[13]
• Giving free broadband to everyone.^[12]
• Stopping the sale of arms to repressive regimes.^[12]
• Making Piers Morgan zero emissions by 2030.^[12]
• Renaming London Bridge to "Phoebe Waller-Bridge".^[12]
• Introducing a minimum voting age of 16 and a maximum of 80.^[12]
• Sending £1 trillion a week to the NHS.^[11]
• Proroguing Jacob Rees-Mogg.^[11]
• Banishing Katie Hopkins to the Phantom Zone.^[11]
• Moving the hand dryer in the men's toilet at Uxbridge's Crown and Treaty pub to a "more sensible position".^[11]

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:

• Finish Crossrail.^[14]
• Free parking for electric vehicles between Vine Street and the Strand,^[14] in reference to where the Free Parking space is located on the British Monopoly board.
• London to join the European Union.^[14]
• Renaming London Bridge to "Phoebe Waller-Bridge" and Hammersmith Bridge to "Wayne Bridge".^[14]
• All government ministers' pay, including that of the mayors, should be tied to that of nurses for the next 100 years.^[15]
• Loud snacks to be banned from theatres.^[16]
• The use of the speakerphone function on mobile phones to be banned in public. Any offenders caught will be forced to watch the film version of Cats every day for a year.^[17]

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.^[14] He finished ninth with 24,775 votes in the mayoral election.^[18]

In March 2024, Binface started another fundraiser to allow him to stand in the next London mayoral election, which is due to be held on 2 May 2024. Any funds raised in excess of the necessary £10,000 would again be donated to charity.^[19] After gaining the required amount, he announced his entry into the race^[3] and released his manifesto^[20], which re-used many policies from previous years but added a few new ones:

• Thames Water bosses to be made to take a dip in the Thames, to see how they like it.
• Claudia Winkleman's fringe to be Grade I listed.
• No shop to be allowed to sell a croissant for more than £1.10 (blame Liz and Rishi for the extra 10p). This is a 10p increase on previous policies, due to inflation.
• London's 'Night Czar' to be replaced by a new Night Mayor, with headquarters on Elm Street.
• I pledge to build at least one affordable house.
• London Bridge to be renamed after Phoebe Waller.
• NHS waiting times to be improved by making GP surgeries' hold music less appalling.
• To solve delays caused by 20mph zones, all meetings to start ten minutes later.
• An amnesty on Covid fines imposed on Londoners, with all costs to be paid instead by Boris Johnson.
• The Millennium Dome to be demolished and replaced by a nature reserve, giving humans and animals somewhere to enjoy a bit of fresh air. It will be called the O2.
• Stop the bots.
• Speakerphones to be banned on public transport, with offenders forced to watch a box set of The One Show. Previous punishments proposed by Binface used the movie Cats instead.
• Give back the Parthenon Marbles, you thieving bastards.
• All government ministers' pay, including the mayor's, to be tied to that of nurses for the next 100 years.
• Croydon's five-metre-long cycle lane on Selsdon Road to get World Heritage Status.
• Free Parking between Vine Street and the Strand (for electric vehicles, except Teslas)
• Shops that play Christmas music before December to be closed down and turned into public libraries.
• All Londoners who cannot afford a ULEZ-compliant vehicle to get a new electric car, paid for by a windfall tax on oil companies.
• Royal palaces (except Buck House, because I'm nice like that) and all homes of Russian oligarchs to be gifted to the nation to help eradicate homelessness.
• The hand dryer in the gents' toilet at the Crown & Treaty, Uxbridge to be moved to a more sensible position.
• The Trocadero to be turned back into a truly top-notch video arcade.
• Loud snacks to be banned from theatres.
• Unnecessary Voter ID legislation to be scrapped.
• Ceefax to be reintroduced for all homes within the M25.

Binface also called for the abolition of VAR^[21] (presumably in football matches).

• Vermin Supreme, an American satirical candidate.