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Count Binface, the Candidate With a Trash Can on His Head, Takes On Nigel Farage in Clacton
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Count Binface, the Candidate With a Trash Can on His Head, Takes On Nigel Farage in Clacton

A man in a black bodysuit, silver cape and metal trash can is the leading challenger to Nigel Farage in this Thursday's special parliamentary election in Clacton-on-Sea, England. Count Binface, a self-described "intergalactic space warrior, leader of the recyclons from the planet Sigma IX," is polling better than he ever has, and the race Farage designed as an anti-establishment statement is instead being upstaged by a satirical candidate promising to nationalize Adele.