Beard Liberation Front
17th December
Contact Keith Flett 07803 167266
Concern expressed that Labour may have started war on members with beards
The Beard Liberation Front, the informal network of beard wearers, has expressed concern that the Labour Party and in particular clean shaven General Secretary David Evans may have launched a war on members with beards.
The campaigners have raised the concerns after the suspension of well known Liverpool member, the author Alan Gibbons, apparently without a reason given. Mr Gibbons was runner-up in the Beard of Labour Party Conference vote in 2019.
The BLF says that Labour Party processes are entirely a matter for it, but that concerns are rising after the earlier suspension of high profile beard wearer and former Party leader Jeremy Corbyn.
BLF Organiser Keith Flett said, we know that one of the core principles that Keir Starmer has is regular visits to the barbers but we hope that he recalls that his namesake and first Labour leader Keir Hardie himself had an iconic socialist beard.
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