Beard Liberation Front
Press Release 24th November
Contact BLF Organiser Keith Flett 07803 167266
Tory MP Ben Bradley’s place on Parliamentary Beard of Year list to be reviewed
The Beard Liberation Front, the informal network of beard wearers, has said that it will review whether or not Tory MP Ben Bradley finds a place on the Parliamentary Beard of the Year 2020 shortlist, due to be published on 30th November.
Mr Bradley won the annual on-line vote in 2019 but the campaigners say that a rebuke from Bernice King, the daughter of Martin Luther King, over the MPs’ inappropriate use of her father’s words on social media has raised questions about his suitability for a list that is designed to promote MPs who have provided a positive image of the hirsute during the year.
The campaigners say that no MP, Mr Bradley or anyone else, is excluded from the shortlist for being controversial since an MP that doesn’t say or do things that provoke reactions good and bad is hardly likely to be in the public eye in the first place. However there is a difference between being controversial and bringing the hirsute into disrepute.
BLF Organiser Keith Flett said, we’re not rushing into any decision. We’ll see what Mr Bradley has to say and come to a view on the shortlist at the weekend.
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