Beard Liberation Front
25th October
Tory MP Gullis barred from Parliamentary Beard of the Year shortlist after Conference remarks
Tory MP Jonathan Gullis, who was elected as MP for Stoke on Trent North has been provisionally barred from the Parliamentary Beard of the Year contest which will run in early December 2021.
Mr Gullis was captured making controversial remarks at a fringe meeting at the Tory Conference in early October. He claimed that teachers who used the term ‘white privilege’ were extremists and should be reported and that anyone found criticising the Government in the classroom should be investigated and sacked.
The campaigners say that Mr Gullis’s words may have been taken out of context and if he clarifies or apologises for his remarks then the decision to bar him from the Parliamentary Beard of the Year contest will be reviewed.
BLF Organiser Keith Flett said, of course beard wearers disagree about things, aside from beards, and there is no problem with robust remarks. However Mr Gullis seems to have gone beyond that. The BLF is about openness and tolerance and at the moment there is an issue here.
Paragraph three, there appears to be a typo and a correction to ‘making’ is needed?
I agree with the rest!