Beard Liberation Front
25th August
Contact: BLF Organiser Keith Flett 07803 167266
Concerns that Labour may be ‘auto-excluding’ members with beards
The Beard Liberation Front, the informal network of beard wearers, has raised concerns that the Labour Party may be auto-excluding from membership some members with beards and others who may have been captured on Zoom talking to someone with a beard.
The Beard Liberation Front is not a party political organisation and support for it is not banned by the Labour Party. However the campaigners say that under Keir Starmer’s leadership there appears to be a move to return to the clean shaven revisionist days of the late 1990s when figures like the late Frank Dobson and Robin Cook were regarded with suspicion for wearing a beard.
The Beard Liberation Front has received reports that members have been told that they are being investigated for potentially hiding their support for proscribed groups under their beards.
BLF Organiser Keith Flett said, the present situation appears to be Kafkaesque. When you consider that the first leader of the Labour Party Keir Hardie had a distinctive beard the apparent concern over a century later with members facial hair is both worrying and absurd.
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