had some questions about the other novelty candidates featured in this post so here we go:
(Pictured: Screaming Lord Sutch circa the 1960s and circa the 1980s or 90s in full Monster Raving Loony Party election get up.)
Screaming Lord Sutch and the Monster Raving Loony Party:
Screaming Lord Sutch was a rock and roll musician in the 1960s who was lead singer of the band Screaming Lord Sutch and the Savages. He was known for a comedy-horror aesthetic:
In the 1960s he founded a party called the National Teenage Party, a satirical (I think? there's not a lot of information about it online) movement advocating for lowering the voting age, which at the time was 21. In 1970 the voting age was reduced to 18.
In 1982 he founded the Monster Raving Loony party and spent the next 20 years or so periodically running as a gag candidate in different elections. While a lot of what he was doing was simply Bants, the issue of youth politics was very important to him.
Lord Sutch's most successful election was in Rotherham in 1994, with 1114 votes.
(Pictured: Screaming Lord Sutch and other Monster Raving Loony Party members with prime minister John Major.)
Sadly he died by suicide in 1999.
Legitimately interesting man and career. You can read more about him here and here.
(Pictured: Howling Laud Hope with David Cameron.)
Following Lord Sutch's death, the Monster Raving Loony Party elected a new leader, Howling Laud Hope. They also elected Laud Hope's cat, Catmando:
(Pictured: Howling Lord Hope and Catmando.)
I'm saddened to report Catmando passed away in 2002.
Howling Laud Hope has the distinction of being the only Monster Raving Loony Party member to actually be elected to public office (Ashburton Town Council, 1987).
There's an interesting article here in the Guardian from 2000; and uh, suffice to say, Lord Hope does not come off well. Content Warning: in the article he says the n-word a bunch of times. One hopes he has changed & grown as a person in the intervening 26 years. I don't like his vibes, personally.
I'm not really sure what the energy was with the Monster Raving Loony Party pre-1999 but I get the impression they might have leaned a lot harder into the mock-aristocracy vibes in the 21st century. Their website with their current 'manicfesto' is here.
The Monster Raving Loony candidate pictured here with Count Binface and Rishi Sunak is Sir Archibald Stanton.
(Pictured: Sir Archibald Stanton and his ventriloquist's dummy on election night with candidates including Rishi Sunak and Count Binface; Sir Archibald Stanton and his ventriloquist's dummy.)
(Pictured: Robert Pownall and new labour MP Andy Burnham at the 2026 Makerfield by-election. Robert Pownall is wearing a fox suit and holding a sign reading 'protect British wildlife').
Robert Pownall is the founder and CEO of a non-profit called Protect the Wild:
Founded in 2015 Protect the Wild is a non-profit organisation working to empower people to protect British wildlife. Our mission is to end hunting, end shooting and end Badger persecution.
Pownall regularly runs in high-profile elections, as you can see above, dressed as a fox. He is specifically a fox because, as you can see above, Protect the Wild are anti-hunting and fox hunting is a big priority in that area.
(Pictured: Robert Pownall dressed as a gannet, holding signs reading 'end the guga hunt' and 'candidate')
Pownall also ran for the Scottish Parliament last year dressed as a gannet to protest the guga hunt.
He has announced his intention to run against Nigel Farage, once again as a fox.
Robert Pownall is perhaps the most Respectable of the perennial 'gag' candidates. Completely legitimate cause and legitimate way of garnering publicity.
(Pictured: Elmo, Boris Johnson, Count Binface)
Elmo doesn't actually appear in the Count Binface timeline but he does show up in a lot of Binface related elections so okay uh. Okay let's talk about Elmo.
Elmo is Bobby Smith, leader of the Give Me Back Elmo party. He is, nominally, a fathers' rights activist. He alleges that he's been barred from his children after his wife falsely accused him of domestic abuse. And OK: i do not know the specifics of his situation and the fathers' rights movement is a whole can of worms. That said, I do not care for Elmo and I think he needs to Stop.
Elmo seems to to be regarded as a general nuisance; he was once issued with a harassment order by former prime minister David Cameron. He also once protested a public artwork called A Real Birmingham Family bcos he didn't like that it depicts two single mothers and no fathers.
As with the other gag candidates above, Elmo likes to run in high profile elections and often runs against the incumbent prime minister.
Anyway: as funny as his ongoing presence on the British election scene is, the vibes are absolutely rancid.
(Pictured: line up of candidates in the 2019 general election including Lord Buckethead, Count Binface, Elmo, Boris Johnson, and Yace Yogenstein wearing a flat cap and goggles.)
Yace "Interplanetary Time Lord" Yogenstein:
This is the guy in the goggles on the far left of the above image also featuring Boris Johnson, Count Binface & Lord Buckethead. He isn't in the timeline either but has cropped up in some other Binface posts.
Yeah I got nothing here. This guy has no particular web presence and this seems to have been his only outing as a parliamentary candidate. Based on his name and appearance I assume he's also a science fiction themed gag candidate? Does anyone have any dirt on Yace Yogenstein. what's his story.
