Beard Liberation Front
29th June
Campaigners say ‘no truth’ in rumour Jeremy Corbyn’s beard is falling out
BRIGHTON, ENGLAND – SEPTEMBER 13: Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn gives a thumbs up to the crowd at a #KeepCorbyn event at the Brighton Dome on September 13, 2016 in Brighton, England. (Photo by Olivia Harris/Getty Images)
The Beard Liberation Front, the informal network of beard wearers, has said that there is no truth in rumours circulating, it is thought by the Murdoch media, that Jeremy Corbyn’s beard is falling out.
On Saturday the Murdoch Times published a fake story that the Labour leader’s health is frail, despite having no evidence whatsoever to support this.
Corbyn, the current Parliamentary Beard of the Year, has worn a beard full-time since his election as MP for Islington North in 1983.
The campaigners say that while Jeremy Corbyn’s beard is not as organic as it was in the 1980s and 1990s, it remains firmly in place.
BLF Organiser Keith Flett said, this looks like a variant of stories that the CIA plotted to make Castro’s beard fall out in the 1960s. These stories were later shown to have been substantively true, except for the detail that the plot failed. While its correct that some former New Labour politicians such as Charles Clarke and David Blunkett have suffered from beard withering, where the beard diminishes the further its wearer moves from left-wing politics, Jeremy Corbyn’s beard remains undiminished whatever Rupert Murdoch may say.
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