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25th September
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Belper Councillor Ben Bellamy shaves Corbyn in Beard of Labour Conference vote
The Beard Liberation Front, the informal network of beard wearers, has said that with this year’s Labour Party Conference in Brighton concluding, beards as much as Brexit have characterised the proceedings.
As the on-line poll closed for Beard of Labour Conference 2019 at 9am on Wednesday Belper Labour Councillor Ben Bellamy had clearly shaved Jeremy Corbyn to be proclaimed Beard of Labour Conference 2019. Jeremy Corbyn claimed second place with Alan Gibbons and Mick Whelan runners up
On the first afternoon distinctively bearded ASLEF General Secretary Mick Whelan chaired the conference, adding significant beard power to the proceedings.
In the following sessions a number of hirsute speakers appeared. However the criteria for the Beard of Labour Party Conference is not just the beard but the gravitas it adds to proceedings
Contenders for 2019 were:
Ben Bellamy, Belper Labour Councillor
Jeremy Corbyn, Labour leader
Alan Gibbons, Liverpool Walton CLP delegate
Mick Whelan General Secretary ASLEF
BLF Organiser Keith Flett, as Jeremy Corbyn underlined in his Leader’s Speech to the Conference on Tuesday afternoon, beard power is important in politics in 2019. However as Ben Bellamy’s victory underlines there is more beard power in the Labour Party than just the Leader
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