London: Timing is everything in comedy and, so it seems, in British politics for a perennial joke candidate who wears a garbage can on his head.
Count Binface, a self-described intergalactic space warrior, has landed in the center of the U.K.'s political universe ahead of a special election Thursday that was derided as a farce long before the ballot was packed with nearly three dozen candidates - many from the silly end of the spectrum.
