Beard Liberation Front
11th September
The Beard Liberation Front, the informal network of beard wearers, has expressed concerns that Keir Starmer is promoting a return to clean shaven revisionism in the Labour Party.
One of the founding principles of the BLF almost 30 years ago was opposition to Blairite clean shaven revisionism.
Tony Blair never had a beard but he did tolerate leading beard wearers such as David Blunkett, Charles Clarke, Robin Cook and Frank Dobson in his Cabinets
By contrast Starmer’s latest Shadow Cabinet is nearly bereft of follicles.
BLF Organiser Keith Flett said, the picture of Keir Starmer on the front of the agenda for the 2023 Labour Conference shows him as aggressively clean shaven. It’s not a vote winner, any more than it was for Blair which is why he co-existed with the hirsute.
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