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Beard Liberation Front

PRESS RELEASE 6^th January

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LABOUR LEADERSHIP ELECTION: CAMPAIGNERS SAY CORBYN ‘BEARD FEAR FACTOR’ MUST PLAY NO PART

The Beard Liberation Front, the informal network of beard wearers, which campaigns against irrational prejudice against the hirsute, has said that with a new Labour leader due to be announced on 4^th April, following a membership ballot, there must be no concessions made to pogonophobia, the fear of beards, in the process.

Since the 12^th December Election defeat stories have circulated on social media that the beard of Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn was a factor with voters on the doorstep

The BLF says that while there is no doubt that irrational attitudes to beard wearers do exist in British society it is the job of a progressive organisation like the Labour Party to challenge such prejudice not concede ground to it.

BLF Organiser Keith Flett said, it seems very unlikely that the next Labour leader will have a beard and policies should be key not image and appearance. However it is important that a modern political party has at its centre the principal of diversity in terms of its leadership team. If that isn’t done we’ll just end up with an endless succession of rather dull clean shaven men in suits.