Beard Liberation Front
21st October
The Beard Liberation Front, the informal network of beard wearers, has said that Tory MP for Bassetlaw Brendan Clarke-Smith has been excluded from consideration for the annual Parliamentary Beard of the Year Award.
The Award is given each December after an on-line vote. It is designed to highlight MPs who have improved the public perception of beards by their Parliamentary performance during the year.
The decision to exclude Mr Brendan Clarke-Smith comes after he spoke in a House of Commons debate on a Labour motion to provide free school meals during holidays for those who receive them during term, against the background of the economic crisis caused by COVID-19
He opined that to do so would be like nationalising school children.
The Labour motion was lost.
BLF Organiser Keith Flett said, of course these things are a matter of opinion but voting against free school meals for those who may well otherwise go hungry does sound like something out of Oliver Twist. In this case we think that were Mr Brendan Clarke-Smith on the Parliamentary Beard of the Year ballot it would risk bringing hirsute MPs into disrepute.
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