Farage face off against Count Binface: "He's been the subject to many jokes in the UK"

To display this content from YouTube, you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement. One of your browser extensions seems to be blocking the video player from loading. To watch this content, you may need to disable it on this site. Cover image: © France 24 04:42 Issued on: 13/08/2026 - 13:56 Polls opened Thursday in an eastern England by-election that pits hard-right leader Nigel Farage - often touted as a potential future British prime minister - against perennial joke candidate Count Binface in a vote shunned by the country's main political parties."If Count Binface does well in this election, it's not going to look good for Nigel Farage", Philip Turle explains. Keywords for this article