Count Binface takes on Nigel Farage amid Reform UK finance scrutiny
Nigel Farage’s comeback meets a satirical rival as Count Binface, Jonathan Harvey’s protest persona, campaigns on voting while Reform UK faces a £500,000 donation probe.
Nigel Farage resigned from Parliament on July 7, 2026 and said he would fight a by-election in Clacton, even as British police investigate at least £500,000 in donations to Reform UK made by the mother of a close political ally convicted of wire fraud. Farage has also faced questions over undeclared financial gifts and has denied wrongdoing.
Count Binface is running in Makerfield. The comic intergalactic space warrior is the performance persona of writer and performer Jonathan Harvey, who has turned election campaigns into a recurring protest act and stands for “justice, lasers, Lovejoy, affordable croissants and the return of Ceefax.” His 2026 material urges voters in Makerfield to turn out, and 47.5% of the constituency did not vote in the 2024 general election. The contest is framed against the possibility of a Reform government led by Farage.
He ran against Boris Johnson in Uxbridge & South Ruislip in the 2019 general election, where he won 69 votes, then again in the 2023 Uxbridge & South Ruislip by-election, where he won 190 votes and finished eighth. He also entered the 2021 and 2024 London mayoral elections, winning 92,896 votes and later 24,260, before taking on Rishi Sunak in Richmond & Northallerton at the 2024 general election.
Official results for Richmond & Northallerton on July 4, 2024 gave Sunak 23,059 votes and Binface 308, with turnout at 65.7% in an electorate of 73,886. The House of Commons election results database gives Binface’s 2026 Makerfield by-election result as 95 votes, placing him seventh.
His 2026 manifesto keeps the satire pointed at the same themes. Among the pledges are restoring Ceefax, capping croissants and Wigan kebabs, renaming HS2 as FFS1 and imposing “national service” for former prime ministers. A 2026 campaign song, “Voting For Binface,” is part of the campaign.
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