Beard Liberation Front
5th October
Contact BLF Organiser Keith Flett 07803 167266
Party Conferences see decline in beard wearing but which was the least beard friendly
The Beard Liberation Front, the informal network of beard wearers, has said that both Labour and Tory Conferences have seen a decline in hirsute attendance in 2022.
At the Labour Conference in Liverpool Keir Starmer was keen to reassert the clean shaven revisionist image of the Blair years. Beards were rarely to be seen on the platform and Starmer has successfully purged many beard wearing members or administratively blocked them from being delegates.
The Tories in Birmingham did not really have a conference in the accepted sense but rather a range of fringe events with a brief period for Ministerial statements in the late afternoon. BLF observers noted that Truss’s tax cutting agenda also appears to be a beard cutting one. The numbers of hirsute attenders has shown a significant decline after a period when the Tories aimed to challenge Labour as the Party of the hirsute
BLF Organiser Keith Flett said, the level of beard wearing in the general population continues to grow. With both Labour and Tory Conferences becoming more clean shaven they are underlining how out of touch with the popular mood in this respect they are
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