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This is the start of my new Black Lives Matter "Reverse Ferret" thread, where I'll be cataloguing the incidents of and techniques used to back out of previous enthusiastic support for BLM by those who opportunistically endorsed it without bothering to check what it stood for.
Stunning turn here from formerly knee-taking Labour leader Keir Starmer, as he smoothly spins from "BLM movement" to "BLM moment" [has it passed already?!] and skims over the "organisational difficulties" of donors giving £1m to people with a Jew problem. https://twitter.com/BBCBreakfast/status/1277556165040148485
Generously compensated TV sports pundit Gary Lineker here with: I Didn't Read The Small Print / I Was Only In Favour Of The "Making The Trains Run On Time" Bit. I think it's fair to say that Gary might have a problem with their wish to destroy capitalism. https://twitter.com/GaryLineker/status/1277254113399635969
And, now, some inspired, *Inception*-level doublethink from UK Black Lives Matter themselves, who confess that, on reflection, they no longer endorse one of the primary stated aims of UK Black Lives Matter. Has anyone told UK Black Lives Matter about this?
Fair play. This is less a reverse ferret, and more an honest and straightforward U-turn, from ex-Wolves-and-Stoke midfielder Karl Henry. https://twitter.com/YorkshireBot/status/1277673565211541505
Piers Morgan begins that backward shimmy:
"When I said that I 'supported The Tea Party movement', I meant that I was broadly in favour of tea. And parties."
[thanks to @DeeJarv34798927 ]
![Piers Morgan begins that backward shimmy:"When I said that I 'supported The Tea Party movement', I meant that I was broadly in favour of tea. And parties."[thanks to @DeeJarv34798927 ]](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EbtuUHgXgAI4cCq.png "Piers Morgan begins that backward shimmy:\"When I said that I 'supported The Tea Party movement', I meant that I was broadly in favour of tea. And parties.\"[thanks to @DeeJarv34798927 ]")
"When I said that I 'supported The Tea Party movement', I meant that I was broadly in favour of tea. And parties."
[thanks to @DeeJarv34798927 ]
Here's the Premier League, lads! Goalie-beating switch of hashtags from #BlackLivesMatter 
to #NoRoomForRacism
"However, we do not endorse any political organisation or movement, nor support any group that calls for violence or condones illegal activity." https://www.premierleague.com/news/1702359
to #NoRoomForRacism"However, we do not endorse any political organisation or movement, nor support any group that calls for violence or condones illegal activity." https://www.premierleague.com/news/1702359
And the English Football Association saves money by jumping onto the same reversing ferret as the Premier League.
[thanks to @73inlancs ] https://twitter.com/FA/status/1278003241050046464
[thanks to @73inlancs ] https://twitter.com/FA/status/1278003241050046464
Good sack of backward-wriggling ferrets here in the *Telegraph* [via @VanessaAtalanta and @JuliaHB1 ], including (possibly) the BBC, Spurs FC, Hertfordshire Police, Northumberland County Council, and Sky Sports. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/07/01/exclusive-bbc-bans-black-lives-matters-badges-air/?utm_content=telegraph&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=Echobox&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1593635759
Starmer not so much reverse-ferreting or U-turning, as drift-racing in a continuous loop now.
https://twitter.com/The_Crox/status/1278689948275703808
https://twitter.com/The_Crox/status/1278689948275703808
Oh look, someone has turned my thread into an article, presumably for money. I suppose I have to admire the shamelessness of it. https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-black-lives-matter-uk-reverse-ferrets
Sip the schadenfreude of Black Lives Matter UK getting ratioed on TWITTER, of all places. https://twitter.com/ukblm/status/1308065339041869827
I have neglected this thread of late. Here's one new story though: https://twitter.com/LBCNews/status/1362719278563274759
