The statement of persons nominated went up on the Town Hall doors on Friday — Count Binface is officially a confirmed parliamentary candidate. Ten registered electors signed a legal document to put a bin on a ballot. This is real and I love this country.
And it's a record: the most candidates in British parliamentary history (the old record was 26, from 2008). Howling Laud Hope of the Monster Raving Loonies also made it — forty years of professional silliness and he's arrived at the one election where he's about the twenty-somethingth silliest name on the paper.
The satire desk's verdict on "he is not real" has been formally amended to "SUPERSEDED BY EVENTS":
https://trendingsheet.com/article/the-bin-is-real-now-there-is-paperwork
Polling day is 13 August — twenty-four days into Burnham's premiership. A brand-new PM's first electoral test, and the second favourite is a receptacle.
Honestly, who among us hasn't considered the bin?