Beard Liberation Front 6th August
Contact: BLF Organiser Keith Flett 07803 167266
Beard Liberation Front responds to Michael Rosen’s issue with Most Iconic London Beard 2022 result
The Beard Liberation Front has received a proto-complaint from the current Beard of the Year Michael Rosen. It relates to the result of the Most Iconic London Beard 2022 vote. The result was announced today as part of London Beard Week, with Karl Marx emerging as the winner with over 50% of the vote.
Both Rosen and Jeremy Corbyn were strong challengers.
Michael Rosen tweeted on Saturday morning
I am framing a motion condemning the BLA for sustaining a quasi-mythological status for a late beard, a beard that has passed, a beard that has ceased to be.
The matter has been carefully reviewed by the BLF Complaints Committee. The view is that while Marx himself saw an element of haunting and ghosts in capitalism that might be applied to beards, this is unlikely to have been a key factor in the Beard Week vote.
Most Iconic London Beard takes a selection of the most well known London beard wearers and simply asks responders to determine which is the most iconic. In essence this comes down mostly to who they recognise. Marx’s victory even though he died in 1883 underlines that his beard, if not always his ideas, remain in the public eye.
The Committee also considered whether this meant Marx’s beard was a spectre haunting the present but determined that interesting though the point is, it is outside the remit and purpose of the poll.
BLF Organiser Keith Flett said, we thank Michael Rosen for raising the issue about the Most Iconic London Beard vote which has been taken seriously as above. Ultimately while the point raised has validity it was not thought to have been a central influence on the outcome of the vote
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