Beard Liberation Front
PRESS RELEASE
29th May
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Campaigners defend the right to wear a beard & sandals after ‘EU Lib Dem voting’ row
South London Liberal Democrat activist Max Brockbank sporting a traditional LibDem beard
The Beard Liberation Front, the informal network of beard wearers which campaigns against beardism, irrational prejudice against the hirsute, has said that it is moving to defend the right of people to wear a beard and sandals without any pogonophobic imputations being made about their political beliefs.
Firstly Alastair Campbell, auto expelled from Labour for saying he had voted LibDem in the EU Elections, stated that he was not a Liberal Democrat, the sub-text being that since he didn’t have a beard or wear sandals that was obviously the case.
Now comments on social media have started to circulate warning Labour activists to watch out for LibDem infiltrators who will be wearing ‘beards, hand-knitted sweaters and sandals’. Again the BLF says this is an openly pogonophobic comment.
It is many years since the Liberal Democrats, in the main, abandoned any association with an image related to beards and sandals. However the tradition does live and it is one that the Beard Liberation Front defends against pogonophobic prejudice
BLF organiser Keith Flett said, the wearing of a beards and sandals does not imply any particular political belief athough we are reasonably sure that this is one fashion Nigel Farage will never adopt
Guidelines on wearing a beard and sandals
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