It was good to see in today’s Guardian (9th Feb)that the Inner London Wildlife branch of the Labour Party is still going and on this occasion running into trouble with the Chair of a Zoom meeting for failing to wear Union Jack waistcoats.
The branch has survived many ups and downs in the Labour Party and the left. Pictured is a Steve Bell cartoon from 1985 (copyright via @bellbelltoons)
The still hirsute cartoonist drew the original Beard Liberation Front logo and the BLF has made occasional appearances in his cartoons. Its supporters in the Inner London Wildlife branch of the Labour Party have of course been on difficult ground since the leadership of the Party changed from the person who has won the Parliamentary Beard of the Year Award most often to someone who appears to relish nothing more than a visit to the barber.
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