United Kingdom

Not the first attack on The Canary from the usual suspects.

"One of its first targets was The Canary, a pro-Corbyn website that was achieving 8.5 million hits a month.

Working closely with the anti-Corbyn Jewish Labour Movement, the book says McSweeney secretly recruited Countdown co-presenter Rachel Riley to front a campaign targeting The Canary’s advertisers with claims the outlet was antisemitic.

The Canary was later cleared by the independent regulator Impress (a fact Pogrund and Maguire don’t mention), but the damage was done. The Canary “went down from 22 staff to one member of staff within a few months of us targeting it,” SFFN crowed.

“Bye bye Birdie!!!” tweeted Rachel Riley."

https://www.declassifieduk.org/morgan-mcsweeney-plot-without-precedent-in-labour-history/

London’s banks are some of the oldest evil organisations going. A building society would likely be safer as then the members get to vote on whether to debank you.

Didn't Farage make a great deal about this sort of thing happening to him?

Strong left bias, but "mostly factual" rating from mbfc

Causes of de-banking in the UK:

Risk appetite: Some businesses presented an unacceptable level of business risk to banks to three of the UK’s major banks.

Financial crime prevention: Some accounts were closed due to financial crime concerns. Indeed, banks have a legal and regulatory obligation to stop/prevent money laundering and other financial crime.

Information sharing: Banks closed accounts due to being unable to complete their customer due diligence because of a lack of information sharing from customers.

Reasons for giving no notice:

...a spokesperson for UK Finance who commented as follows:

“Customers should receive good communication about their accounts and a notice period should be served before an account is closed. However, there may be exceptions to this if, for example, money-laundering is suspected. ...”

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