Beard Liberation Front
Media Release
14th June
Contact BLF Organiser Keith Flett @kmflett
Beard Liberation Front Manifesto calls for a more beard tolerant Britain in clean shaven Election
The Beard Liberation Front, the informal network of beard wearers, has issued its 10 point Manifesto for the 2024 General Election.
The BLF is not standing candidates at the Election but is urging parties to pick up on its theme of a more beard friendly and tolerant country.
The campaigners say that it is deeply disappointing that the main parties have largely conformed to the clean shaven man in a suit stereotype that has dominated British politics since the 1950s.
The campaigners say that the Manifesto ranges from general statements of principle on pogonophobia, irrational prejudice against the hirsute, to specific proposals, for example on a luxury shaving tax.
BLF Organiser Keith Flett said, there are of course more beards around these days, but prejudice remains. Pogonophobic comments and prejudices are still freely expressed and in some cases people are denied employment because they have a beard. Unfortunately in most instances it remains perfectly legal to do so. We want the next Government to be Beard Friendly and to pick up on the points in our Manifesto. In the weeks before the Election we’ll be pressing candidates on this across the UK.
The Ten Point Beard Liberation Front Manifesto
No to Beardism and Pogonophobic prejudice against the hirsute
Equal rights for beard wearers through a Beard Equality Act
More hirsute MPs
A 20% quota for hirsute Cabinet Ministers
More hirsute public employees and monitoring of hirsuteness levels in the senior Civil Service
Promotion of positive public images of the hirsute
A statue of the last hirsute Prime Minister, Lord Salisbury, to be erected in Parliament Square
OfCom to have a statutory duty to monitor Pogonophobia in the broadcast media & issue penalties for persistent transgressors
No dress codes at work, beyond a requirement for smart appearance for public facing roles
A luxury tax on the shaving industry, the proceeds to be used to promote a diverse Britain
Thank you for bringing some long needed humour to this event. I am clean shaven myself but fully support your cause in the need for enhanced diversity.