The Canary

But you know, I've had le- left-wingers who I've interviewed for our podcast who point out that in the period when the, the, the right of the Labour Party was trying to undermine Corbyn and install their candidate, uh, Keir Starmer, the organization Labour Together and others were trying to defund, uh, left-wing websites which supported Corbyn.

One of them, the, perhaps the most prominent being The Canary, and they succeeded.

The, the, the campaign called Stop Funding Fake News, run by the Centre for Countering Digital Hate, set up by Morgan McSweeney, who became, of course, uh, Starmer's chief of staff, succeeded in a bogus campaign, an astroturf campaign.

That is something that purports to be grassroots, but which is in fact, you know, controlled from a central au- authority, uh, which was trying to influence, you know, the, the, the composition of the Labour leadership.

They, they, they succeeded in, in persuading a- advertisers to pull out and, and, and s- a website that had a very large following and employed more than 30 people, full-time journalists, basically went almost bankrupt.

They're still at it.

The Canary was resuscitated, and now it's being debanked, debanked.

So this is not a left or right coded issue, but what there is, I think, is an authoritarian streak inside the Labour Party, which is still in control of the Labour Party.