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Put another way, the acceptance of nonstandard language to replace the comfortable protection offered by linguistic purism amounts to moving the goalposts in a game that they have been playing for their entire lives according to a different set of rules.
This is called Turning Round and Moving the Goalposts.
Given this paucity of bad-news material to work with, it's understandable that Bennett would be tempted to find some way to move the goalposts he set down in 1994.