Beard Liberation Front
Media Release
11th September
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Campaigners say TUC is now fully Beard Friendly as winners of Beard of 151st Congress revealed
UNISON’s James Anthony
The Beard Liberation Front, the informal network of beard wearers, has said that after detailed research by its team, it is pleased to announce the TUC Congress, this year in Brighton, is now fully Beard Friendly.
The campaigners say that the image of the annual Congress as a load of clean-shaven men in suits has been swept away not only with a much-improved gender balance but also by an increase in hirsute delegates.
Announcing the winners of the Beard of Congress 2019, the BLF named James Anthony of UNISON for the most gravitas adding beard. He was runner up for the accolade in 2018.
Also placed were Martin Furlong from the College of Podiatry for hirsute resilience after his beard made numerous appearances at the rostrum and Prospect’s Ben Caile who was judged to have an excellent modern beard style of the type likely to impress young trade unionists
BLF organiser Keith Flett said, we congratulate James Anthony on shaving the significant opposition but most of all we are pleased that the TUC Congress can at last be regarded as fully Beard Friendly
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