Beard Liberation Front
PRESS RELEASE 15th December
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ANTI-BEARD PREJUDICE MAY HAVE PLAYED ROLE IN CORBYN’S DEFEAT
The Beard Liberation Front, the informal network of beard wearers, which campaigns against irrational prejudice against the hirsute, pogonophobia, has said that prejudice against beards may have played a role in Jeremy Corbyn’s Election defeat on Thursday.
Mr Corbyn is one of Britain’s most well-known beard wearers and a former Beard of the Year.
Boris Johnson is known for making prejudicial comments about Mr Corbyn’s beard. For example at a fringe meeting at the Tory Conference in October 2018 he said:
we won’t get anywhere by metaphorically acquiring beards and string vests and allotments – but by systematically pointing out the damage they would do.
Had he won on Thursday Jeremy Corbyn would have become Britain’s first Prime Minister with a beard since the Tory PM Lord Salisbury in 1902. Significantly a letter appeared in the Daily Telegraph on 14th December underlining the point about how difficult it is for a beard wearer to enter No.10 Downing Street
BLF Organiser Keith Flett said, there is a case for saying that Boris Johnson has spent some of the last few weeks going around the country whipping up prejudice against Jeremy Corbyn’s beard. Let’s see how many beard wearers, if any, feature in his Brexit Cabinet.
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