Beard Liberation Front
31st October
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Morgan McSweeney beats JD Vance in Scary Beard of Halloween Vote
The Beard Liberation Front, the informal network of beard wearers, which campaigns against irrational prejudice against the hirsute, has said that in the poll for the Scary Beard of Halloween 2025 Morgan McSweeney beat last year’s winner JD Vance for the Scary Beard of Halloween title
McSweeney got 47.4% of the votes in an on-line poll compared to 42.1% for JD Vance
The title, awarded each year on October 31st, takes a wry look at Halloween festivities by identifying the scariest beard in the public eye. The winner is likely to win by the narrowest crack of a squeaky floorboard.
After two Spooky Rounds of voting four scary beards went to the Crypt Kicker final vote
The BLF does not generally believe that beards are scary a view promoted by generations of beard haters or Pogonophobes.
It is accepted though that on a dark moonless night as a beard looms through the gloom, nerves may rise a little as to what lies behind the beard.
BLF Organiser Keith Flett said of course none of the beards on the shortlist is genuinely scary. But come Halloween things can look a little different…We wonder whether both Morgan McSweeney and JD Vance view winning the title as the accolade of their political year
Finalists in Bold
Richard Branson, Rocket Man
Laurence Fox, social media star
JD Vance, Holidaymaker
Jonathan Gullis, ex-Tory MP
Russell Vought, Trump’s Project 2025
Morgan McSweeney, organiser
Evangelos Marinakis, Nottingham Forest owner
Eric Trump, Assistant to the King
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