Jul 8
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It seems Iain Duncan Smith’s effort to make the Tory Party more “inclusive” has some ways to go. Recently a Tory Association made it clear beardies should not apply. The report prompted this letter to the editor of the Daily Telegraph.
“Sir – I see that the Portsmouth South Conservative Association is unwilling to countenance a bearded candidate (Peterborough, July 4). This naked pogonophobia is all too symptomatic of the malaise of modern Toryism.
Lord Salisbury, the greatest Tory prime minister, was heroically bearded, while none of his successors sported a hirsute appendage: witness then the subsequent decline of both party and country.
Duncan Ferguson, London SW19”
NB: Although I am great admirer of Lady T, her pogonophobia always troubled me greatly. For any of you who don’t know what I look like, here is a headshot. Notice a certain affectation?
