2026年8月14日 美国东部时间10:19 / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻（CBS News）
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埃米特·莱昂斯是哥伦比亚广播公司新闻伦敦分社的新闻编辑室编辑，负责协调并为哥伦比亚广播公司新闻所有平台制作报道。在加入哥伦比亚广播公司新闻之前，埃米特曾在美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）担任制作人四年。
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垃圾箱伯爵或许在与奈杰尔·法拉奇的补选中惜败，但现在还不到彻底否定他的人气的时候。这位头顶垃圾桶参选的候选人，在对阵英国最知名政客之一的竞选中赢得了四分之一以上的选票。
这位长期活跃的讽刺派候选人在由法拉奇主动辞职引发的这场超现实竞选活动中，取得了职业生涯最佳战绩。
垃圾箱伯爵对选民的口号很简单：“我来这里就是为了把垃圾清走。”（不过在英国，垃圾桶叫“bin”，所以他的名字可能有些美国人反应不过来。）
作为英国政坛的常客，垃圾箱伯爵在过去几年的多场选举中都出现在了选票上。
这位头戴垃圾桶的候选人是讽刺作家乔纳森·哈维，而垃圾箱伯爵延续了英国选举中另类政治候选人的悠久传统。毕竟，曾有一位名叫“尖叫领主萨奇”的音乐人——官方怪物狂欢党创始人——保持着参加议会选举次数最多的纪录：从20世纪60年代到90年代，共计39次参选。
此前，垃圾箱伯爵曾效仿往届另类候选人，以“领主桶头”的身份与时任英国首相特蕾莎·梅对决。之后他改用“垃圾箱伯爵”的名号，与鲍里斯·约翰逊等人展开角逐，最近一次则是挑战现任英国首相安迪·伯纳姆。
当然，他在这些选举中全都落败，得票数也寥寥无几。而这是他首次跨过5%的得票门槛，得以拿回参选所需的500英镑（约合677美元）参选保证金。
尽管败选，垃圾箱伯爵仍未能推行他那被部分人视为激进的全面选举议程，其中包括将阿黛尔收归国有、在提高他人税负的同时为自己减税，以及“至少建造一套经济适用房”。
本次选举共有创纪录的34名候选人， ballot paper（选票）长得滑稽可笑，改革英国党候选人法拉奇拿下了约63%的选票。
但此次垃圾箱伯爵的参选表现仍有显著不同：他获得了9455张选票，占比约27%。而他上次挑战伯纳姆时仅获得95票。
不过周四的这场选举本身就堪称一场闹剧，所以这位讽刺派候选人或许正是法拉佳的完美陪衬。作为特朗普总统的盟友，法拉奇领导着英国日益壮大的极右翼民粹主义运动，他于7月初辞去议员职务，以触发此次特别选举。
“我认为克拉克顿的民众应该评判我的所作所为，”法拉奇在宣布辞职时说道。
“这将是一场人民对抗建制派的补选，”他称此次选举是“一个直接向整个建制派竖中指、坦率地告诉他们‘哪凉快哪待着去’的机会”。
当时外界认为此举是一场高风险的政治赌博，旨在重新获得选民的授权——此前他因未披露金融礼品的丑闻面临越来越大的压力。但当所有合法政党都抵制此次选举后，垃圾箱伯爵的参选变得更具看点。
法拉奇成功连任，这让他在下次全国选举中对伯纳姆构成了严峻威胁。下一次全国选举必须在2029年8月前举行，但首相也可在此前任何时间提前举行。最近一次，首相基尔·斯塔默因失去党内众多支持者的支持而辞职，同为工党成员的伯纳姆被选为继任者。
当然，人气飙升的垃圾箱伯爵也很自然会在2029年的选举中再次参选。
弗兰克·安德鲁斯为本报道撰稿。
Count Binface wins hearts, if not the election, in bid to defeat Trump ally Nigel Farage in U.K.
2026-08-14 10:19 EDT / CBS News
By Mark Osborne,
Emmet Lyons Producer
Emmet Lyons is a news desk editor at the CBS News London bureau, coordinating and producing stories for all CBS News platforms. Prior to joining CBS News, Emmet worked as a producer at CNN for four years.
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Count Binface may have come up short in the by-election against Nigel Farage, but don’t throw his popularity in the trash just yet. The candidate wearing a garbage can on his head just won over a quarter of the votes in a contest against one of Britain’s most famous politicians.
The longtime satirical candidate had his best showing yet in a surreal campaign triggered by Farage’s own resignation.
Binface has a simple message to voters: “I’m here to take out the trash.” (In the U.K., a trash can is called a bin, though, so his name might go over some Americans’ heads.)
A mainstay of British politics, Binface has been on the ballot in several elections over the past few years.
The man behind the trash can is satirist Jonathan Harvey, and Binface continues a long tradition of quirky political candidates in U.K. elections. After all, a musician named Screaming Lord Sutch, founder of the Official Monster Raving Loony Party, holds the record for running in the most parliamentary elections: 39 votes spanning from the 1960s to the ’90s.
Count Binface attends the vote count for the by-election in the coastal Essex constituency of Clacton-on-Sea, England, on Aug. 14, 2026. Simone Jimena Rudolphi/Drik/Getty Images
First, adopting the garb of a prior novelty candidate, Binface ran as Lord Buckethead against then-U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May. Then, he adopted the moniker of Count Binface, competing against the likes of Boris Johnson and, most recently, current U.K. Prime Minister Andy Burnham.
He, of course, lost all those races, and received very few votes. This is the first time he crossed the 5% threshold that earns him back his 500-pound (about $677) deposit to run.
Following his defeat, Binface will not be able to implement his sweeping and, some might say, radical electoral agenda, which included nationalizing Adele, cutting your taxes while raising everyone else’s and building “at least one affordable house.”
The election featured a record 34 candidates, which created a comically long paper ballot, with the Reform U.K. Party’s Farage taking about 63% of the votes.
But still, there was a marked difference in Binface’s candidacy this time, where he won 9,455 votes, or about 27%. He secured just 95 votes in his challenge to Burnham.
A counter adds a ballot paper to the pile of votes for Reform U.K.’s candidate Nigel Farage at Clacton Leisure Centre, eastern England, on Aug. 14, 2026. Henry Nicholls/AFP via Getty Images
Thursday’s election itself was a bit of a farce though so maybe the satirical candidate was the perfect foil for Farage. An ally of President Trump who has led a surging far-right, populist movement in the U.K., Farage resigned in early July as a lawmaker to trigger the special election.
“I’ve decided that the people of Clacton should be the judges of my actions,” Farage said when he announced his resignation.
“This will be a people versus the establishment by-election,” he said, calling it “a chance to stick two fingers up to the entire establishment to frankly tell them where to go.”
The move was thought at the time to be a high-risk political gamble to renew his mandate from voters as he faced mounting pressure over a scandal connected to failing to disclose financial gifts. But Binface’s candidacy became more viable when every legitimate party boycotted the election.
Farage’s reelection now makes him a serious threat to Burnham in the next national elections. Those elections must be called by August 2029, but a prime minister can also call for them at any time before then. Most recently, Prime Minister Keir Starmer resigned after he lost the support of many within his party, and fellow Labour Party member Burnham was chosen to replace him.
Of course, a surging Count Binface would also be a natural to run in 2029 as well.
Frank Andrews contributed to this report.