Will the Brexit Beard be a thing?
If you Google ‘beards+news’ you can find all the latest beard stories from across the globe. Most are exceptionally tedious but once every few months something comes up that is, in most cases, so outrageous as to require rebuttal, or, less often, interesting.
The Vox article on beards grown by defeated politicians and those changing their status in life has been picked up and slightly elaborated on by the Guardian:
My thanks to @sharkastic for alerting me to it on social media.
The story itself is factual. Some politicians do grow beards in defeat. Ed Miliband had one briefly for example.
Whether there is such a thing as a Brexit Beard is another matter as is who might grow one.
Given that Jeremy Corbyn has had a beard for ever we might expect him to be at full ZZ Top by now, but that isn’t the case.
The host of senior Tories who didn’t agree with Brexit or Johnson and in some cases were purged as a result were perpetually clean shaven and have shown no sign of beard growth since December 12th that has been reported to the Beard Liberation Front.
Perhaps therefore we need to look towards the leaders of the People’s Vote campaign. No sign of an Alastair Campbell or a Peter Mandelson beard yet, but there is time.
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