Labour accused of staging by-election video

According to Labour, the Greens never stood a chance in the Gorton & Denton by-election. What’s strange is Labour are now saying voters are switching from the Greens to Labour, suggesting they did actually abandon the incumbent Labour Party at some point, but have now switched back?

We’re unsure what Labour have done to convince people they can win besides shouting ‘ONLY WE CAN WIN‘, but apparently that is happening.

Unless, of course, this is all staged:

this feels so fucking staged lmao https://t.co/x0BEfcquwo

— Nat ✨ FREE 🇵🇸 (@loopzoooop) February 24, 2026

“So fucking staged”

Let’s do a detailed breakdown of the above video, shall we?

What seems to be happening is Labour candidate Angeliki Stogia is speaking with a resident on their doorstep. The camera person is standing behind some bushes for some reason, with their focus trained on the resident’s window. In said window there’s a flyer for the Green Party, and the video ends with the resident replacing it with a Labour flyer.

The problem is not everything adds up:

1. For whatever reason, the audio isn’t aligned with the footage. You can tell this because Stogia walks away from the house while the resident is still speaking.
2. The fact that the camera person is stood behind a bush suggests they were recording the scene without the resident’s knowledge.
3. The camera person is focused on the window while Stogia was still speaking to the resident, suggesting they somehow knew what was going to happen with the flyer.

How did they know that the man would immediately replace the Green Party flyer with the Labour once? Unclear. But the simplest explanation is ‘it was staged – they faked that shit‘.

Others had similar suspicions:

I, for one, believe that this is completely authentic, and not at all staged.

Yes, this newly-converted Labour supporter doesn't appear on camera, but that's probably just down to shyness, and not because he's a Labour councillor pretending to be a member of the public. https://t.co/6IcO6iJf4S

— Plutôt la Barbie (@plutotlabarbie) February 23, 2026

Labour's entire campaign in Gorton and Denton is not "look at what great things we have done", but instead "don't vote for the scary Greens".

🤦 https://t.co/u6hOeDdlka

— Robespierre (YouTube) 📢 (@MaxFRobespierre) February 24, 2026

If Labour have faked it, it’s another sign Labour are once again copying a Reform MP. As Emily Apple wrote for the Canary in 2019 on then-Conservative Lee Anderson:

Lee Anderson is running in the Tory/Labour marginal seat of Ashfield, in the East Midlands. Labour narrowly won the seat in 2017 by just over 400 votes. But Anderson’s dirty tactics should provide yet another reason why no one in Ashfield should vote for him.

She added:

Michael Crick from Mail Plus caught Anderson redhanded “setting up the apparently spontaneous doorstop encounter beforehand”. The reason Crick could do this? Anderson had seemingly forgotten he was wearing a radio mic!

Absolute scenes as @MichaelLCrick catches a candidate in the act of setting up a “friendly voter” on the doorstep. (Video credit @MailPlus_) pic.twitter.com/azdtVk20eA

— Dino Sofos (@dinosofos) November 25, 2019

TLDW

For a full 4 hour breakdown of the 10 second clip, be sure to check back in tomorrow.

If you want a TLDW on that – yeah – we also think Labour staged it.

Featured image via The Canary