Count Binface unveils his pledges to Londoners if he wins Mayoral election

Count Binface, the self-declared 'space warrior', has unveiled his pledges to Londoners if he wins the Mayoral election. 

Taking place on May 2, the elections will see 11 candidates fight it out for the most powerful Mayoral role in the country. 

After announcing it is time to 'take the trash out', the fancy-dressed man has told the BBC he is 'gunning for a champions league spot' this year after finishing ninth in the 2021 election.

Binface has also said he is the 'only fresh thing on the menu given all other politicians are rubbish'.

Now, in a post on X, the candidate has said in his manifesto that he wants to 'build at least one affordable house' and demolish the Millennium Dome to make way for a nature reserve.

Shops will also be banned from selling croissants for anything less than £1.10, which was the same commitment he made in 2021.

London Bridge will also be named after actress Phoebe Waller-Bridge under his leadership and Ceefax will be brought back, he announced.

The manifesto also contains a commitment to use a windfall tax on oil companies to pay for a new electric car for every Londoner who can't afford a compliant vehicle

Binface has stood in four elections previously, including the last mayoral election in 2021.

He received 24,775 first choice votes, in comparison to Laurence Fox's 47,634 and Piers Corbyn's 20,604.

Labour's Sadiq Khan won with 1,013,721 votes with Conservative Shaun Bailey coming second with 893,051.

Binface is also the only candidate to have stood twice in Boris Johnson's former constituency of Uxbridge and South Ruislip. In the July 2023 election he got 190 votes.

Binface, played by satirical comic Jonathan Harvey, follows in the long tradition of joke candidates running in high-profile elections in the UK.

Lord Buckethead stood against Prime Ministers in elections for over 30 years and first stood against Margaret Thatcher.

It took its name from a 1984 film Gremloids but the film creator eventually objected.

Since 2017 Lord Buckethead has been rebranded as Count Binface citing 'an unpleasant battle on the planet Copyright' as the reason for his regeneration.

Lord Buckethead stood in Theresa May's consituency of Maidenhead at the 2017 general election and was even flown to the US to appear on John Oliver's HBO show Last Week Tonight.

The British comedian put him forward as a candidate for chief Brexit negotiator in Mrs May's imperiled Cabinet.

The candidate entered the show with all the pomp and ceremony that an intergalactic Lord deserves, a cloud of dry ice around his knees.

Despite the clear novelty factor of his campaign, Lord Buckethead distributed an impressive 4,000 leaflets during the campaign in 2019.

The announcement of Binface's upcoming campaign at the next Mayoral elections comes as a record number of ballots were spoiled the last time.

In 2021 around 114,000 ballots were spoilt after the first round of voting because the 20 candidates packed onto a sheet of A4 paper confused voters into either accidentally ticking the first-choice column twice or choosing too many contenders.

Due to the first four rows of candidates featuring mainly jokesters, public opinion may have become 'disenfranchised', according to one politics expert.

Chris Stafford, doctoral researcher at the University of Nottingham, told MailOnline the record number of candidates - including three YouTubers and a number of anti-lockdown campaigners - 'could be a sign of general dissatisfaction with major mainstream political parties'.

Count Binface and Old Harrovian YouTuber Max Fosh, 26, who said he wanted to annoy Laurence Fox were among the unprecedented number of candidates who ran for mayor.

Mr Fox, a 42-year old actor, also stood for election but lost his £10,000 deposit after securing less than two per cent of the vote.

The London mayoral elections uses the supplementary vote system which meant voters selected their first and second choices. If no one candidate secured more than 50 per cent of the vote when first preferences were counted, second choices were factored in for a run-off between the top two candidates.