As the first Black Lives Matter protests began to take place in the UK, following the killing of George Floyd in Minnesota, several organisations and individuals quickly saw that they could jump on the movement’s bandwagon.
Shortly afterwards, several organisations had adopted the logo and backed the official Black Lives Matter UK campaign. Even the English Premier League, which normally avoids promoting political causes, said players would wear the organisation’s logo on their shirts.
It soon became apparent though that the Black Lives Matter campaign in the UK is not just interested in anti-racism. The movement has backed a controversial pledge to ‘defund the police’, said that its aims include the dismantling of capitalism, and believes that ‘politics is gagged of the right to critique Zionism’.
Unsurprisingly, it didn’t take long for those who had supported the Black Lives Matter campaign to realise they might have backed the wrong horse. With that in mind, below are the best reverse-ferrets so far:
Keir Starmer
The Labour leader started off with a strong show of support for the campaign, when he
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