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21st September
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Trudeau wins Election despite spin doctors beard shaving stunt
The Beard Liberation Front, the informal network of beard wearers, has said that results from the Canadian Election indicate that Justin Trudeau has survived a spin doctor beard/clean shaven trick earlier in the year, which saw him shave his beard.
Trudeau shaved what had been a trademark beard in late June
The move to go clean shaven came just weeks after Data Sciences, a digital analyst connected to Trudeau’s Liberal Party, placed a series of Facebook ads in English and French. The ads showed Trudeau with and without a beard and asked which one was favourite.
The outcome of the ad campaign is unknown except that Trudeau lost the beard.
The BLF says that the campaign is strikingly similar to one that Blairite spin doctors ran against the late Frank Dobson in the 2000 London Mayoral Election. Voters were shown pictures of Dobson, a well-known beard wearer, hirsute and non-hirsute. Dobson a man of principle refused to shave his beard come what may. He lost the Election to then independent Ken Livingstone but his beard was not thought to be a factor except by clean shaven revisionist Blairites.
BLF Organiser Keith Flett said, it was a sad moment to see the Frank Dobson beard stunt played on Trudeau over 20 years on. However on this occasion it didn’t work. Its entirely possible that the image many Canadian voters had of Trudeau included his stylish beard not noting he had shaved.
Thanks to Justin Horton for info
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