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Not that I've seen, it's based on my own experiences (I'm from Burnley) but that's how it feels to me across quite a wide spectrum.
I think there's a lot of support for the general black lives matter concept but not much for the specifics (anti-capitalist, disrupt the nuclear family, abolish the police, etc) of Black Lives Matter.
aggi-
Support for the general thrust of black live matters requires a certain amount of recognition of white privilege. Whether you’re poor and white or rich and white, or doing okay and white, because that’s what the movement is trying to dismantle.
It’s not going to be easy or quick, poor working class white folk can feel hard done by, but they are as much a part of the problem as the rest of white society, because it’s easier to blame the BAME people in your neighbourhood/town/city than try to acknowledge your own racism/involvement.The specifics you mention are pretty american, though I haven’t heard about “disrupting the nuclear family” and the disbanding the police line just muddies they water in terms of what “defunding The police” in the us actually means.
Most of the specifics in the uk are about recognising that the foundation of generational wealth in the uk is based on slavery and the empire/commonwealth which little Englanders love so much but isn’t such a great emblem for those people whose lands were taken. It’s also about making society look at and correct the racism which has made a level playing field (educationally, economically) impossible to implement, or be worth a damn. And that stating that you don’t see colour isn’t worth much at all and actively reinforces the current system..
cornelius_blackfoot
Is there evidence to support this? I hope it's true but I'm not sure how they are surveying support and resistance. Every time I hear it's a small minority it's hard not to think of the "few bad apples" term that has rightly become so problematic in the US.