Our Media Sovereignty Act Campaign was really pleased to get the endorsement of Bill McGuire, Professor Emeritus of Geophysical and Climate Hazards at UCL, for our campaign to end the media billionairist capture of our democracy.
He is a Co-director of the New Weather Institute and a Patron of Scientists for Global Responsibility.
He is the Special Scientific Advisor to WordForest.Org.
Bill tweeted:
“This is an absolutely vital initiative. If you want to break the grip of the climate-destroying billionaire-owned media on our democracy, then please sign and share mediasovereignty.org/petition“
His non-fiction books include:
- Hothouse Earth: An Inhabitant’s Guide
- A Guide to the End of the World: Everything You Never Wanted to Know
- Waking the Giant: How a Changing Climate Triggers Earthquakes, Tsunamis and Volcanoes
The last of these was ranked 5th in the Guardian’s list of the best ever eco books.
Bill tweeted his support for the petition on twitter yesterday: twitter.com/ProfBillMcGuire/status/2094365268432625877…
Please like and share his tweet.
“An Oligarch Media Has Made Good Government Impossible,” Says Peter Oborne
We were delighted to see Peter Oborne give his full backing to our Media Sovereignty Act parliamentary petition in Byline Times Magazine.
This is what he wrote:
“The tender treatment granted to Reform and other far right elements by British media houses, has inspired me to sign a new parliamentary petition calling for a ‘Media Sovereignty Act.’
This excellent petition insists that only British individuals (or residents) should be allowed to own UK media organisations. It further addresses the problem of ‘corruption of non-transparently funded think tanks.’
Ever since the corrupt bargain struck by Margaret Thatcher with Rupert Murdoch, later formalised by Tony Blair, an oligarch media has made good government impossible.”
We enthusiastically agree with every word Peter said.
Jonathan Porritt, One of Britain’s Most Distinguished Environmentalists, Has Backed the Campaign
Jonathan Porritt has told our campaign that he has signed the petition calling for a debate on the Act and that he “shared it as widely as I could.”
It is our view that ending media billionairism is THE most important political priority for the climate and nature movement.
Their 24/7 propaganda war on climate action is the most powerful political block on the urgent action needed to save humanity and nature from climate destruction.
Removing their corrupt capture of our democracy would lead to an explosion of positive political action on the crises and bring us back from the edge of total annihilation.
Porritt’s distinguished career includes:
- Chair of The Ecology Party (Green Party of England and Wales predecessor)
- Director, Friends of the Earth
- Chair, Sustainable Development Commission
- Chancellor of Keele University
- Co-founder, Forum for the Future
- Patron, Population Matters
- Former Environmental Adviser to King Charles III
- Supporter of Just Stop Oil
- Arrestee for Defend Our Juries protests against the Palestine Action “terrorism” proscription
- Former Trustee, WWF World Wide Fund for Nature
- President of TCV, The Conservation Volunteers
- BBC Wildlife Magazine advisory board
- Trustee, Ashden Awards for Sustainable Energy
- Co-founder, Our Forests
- Author of Seeing Green: Politics of Ecology Explained, Capitalism: As If the Earth Mattered and Love, Anger, Betrayal, co-authored with Just Stop Oil and other activists
If you are a member of any of these groups, please urge them to use their social media and encourage their members to sign the petition for the Media Sovereignty Act.
Top Labour MP Clive Lewis Backs the Petition
We were very excited to see top Labour MP Clive Lewis back our Media Sovereignty Act petition on all his social media accounts.
This is what he said:
“Billionaire capture of UK media is a key political issue. We do not have a fair or free democracy, whilst the 0.001% have our media captured. Let’s take back control. Please sign the Media Sovereignty Act petition to ensure Parliament debates it.”
It shows this campaign unites everybody across the political spectrum who wants a free and fair democracy in the UK.
We all want an end to the bullying and kleptocratic rule of the billionaire elite dividing us and ruining Britain.
Bill, Peter, Jonathan and Clive join a growing list of senior British establishment figures joining the campaign to end the capture of our democracy by the foreign owned billionaire media.
The list now includes:
- Peter Oborne, former Telegraph political commentator
- Zack Polanski, leader, Green Party of England and Wales
- Clive Lewis MP, Labour leadership candidate
- Jonathan Porritt, former CEO, Friends of the Earth
- Bill McGuire, Professor Emeritus of Climate Hazards, UCL
Together, we can do this!
many thanks
Caspar & Donnachadh x
PS: Please sign and share our petition to ban foreign media ownership: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/760061
and help us cover Campaign costs by donating to our Crowdfunder: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/crowdfunder-for-polling-the-publics-view-on-billi