Who is the man behind the bin? As Count Binface prepares to square off against Farage, Clacton local JULIA LAWRENCE asks: What do Mrs Bin and the little Bins make of it all?

His target, I should make clear, is the constituency’s on/off (currently off) MP Nigel Farage who, not seeing the stealth attack coming or taking it seriously when he did, has been taking quite a hammering. Enter, stage left, a man with a bin on his head, calling himself Count Binface. Then, in 2024, came Nigel Farage, who was welcomed with open arms. Currently, Farage is polling at about 71 per cent and Count Binface at an estimated 20 per cent – and rising. Count Binface himself has conceded that while Nigel Farage is likely to win ‘numerically’, he would not win ‘morally’.