Farage and Count Binface go head-to-head in snap UK poll

WALTON-ON-THE-NAZE, United Kingdom: Polls opened on Thursday (Aug 13) 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.Polling stations in the eastern Essex constituency of Clacton opened at 7am (2pm, Singapore time) with Farage up against 33 fringe candidates, most prominently Binface, who welcomed the day of the vote by quipping on X: "Bin Day cometh".At one polling station, a sample ballot paper with the lengthy list of candidates hanging at the entrance was taller than most voters, an AFP journalist saw. Reform UK leader Nigel Farage smiles after voting in the Clacton by-election, outside a makes