Beard Liberation Front
Media Release
10th August
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London Beard Week: Harry Kane shaves Jeremy Corbyn in vote for Best London Beard
The Beard Liberation Front, the informal network of beard wearers, has said that Spurs and England footballer Harry Kane has shaved Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn in the 2019 vote for the Best London Beard.
Kane got 15.93% of the votes compared to Corbyn’s 10.62%. Socialist and designer William Morris came third
The vote was part of the third London Beard Week which concludes on 10th August
The week is a celebration of London, now one of the most beard friendly Capital cities in the world, and of London’s great hirsute heritage from Charles Dickens to Karl Marx.
The week coincides with CAMRA’s Great British Beer Festival at Olympia and wider beer related events associated with it as well as the London Craft Beer Festival at Tobacco Dock. The campaigners say that a rise in the interest in craft beer in London, there are now over 100 breweries within the M25, has led to a massive increase in beard wearing.
As part of the week the BLF is ran a poll to find the most impactful and impressive figure with a beard who is or has been associated with London.
BLF Organiser Keith Flett said, Jeremy Corbyn’s beard is of course omnipresent but perhaps Harry Kane’s victory is a good omen for Spurs as they kick off their Premiership season today
The best ever London Beard
Sigmund Freud, d Hampstead
Darcus Howe, anti-racist campaigner
Bernie Grant, Tottenham MP
Charles Dickens, author
Karl Marx, philosopher and activist
WG Grace, cricketer d Mottingham
Michael Rosen, broadcaster
William Morris, socialist & designer
Harry Kane, footballer b Walthamstow
William Cuffay, Leader of London Chartism
Keir Hardie, London Labour MP
Richard Thompson, singer & composer
Charles Darwin, naturalist, buried Westminster Abbey
Jeremy Corbyn, London Labour MP
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