The Tories are rushing a piece of law through the House this week to outlaw foreign ownership of the media. The reason? The Telegraph, aka Torygraph, is about to be sold to Middle Eastern interests (by its current offshore owner) and its near fanatical support for the Tories is in question. I’m pleased and amazed in equal measure, esp at how fast they can move when they need to. If only they could pass some laws for the benefit of the rest of us…
@DaleVince We need to go further and ban foreign/non dom ownership of the press. This will get rid of Murdoch, The Barclays and Rothmere - owners of the Sun, Telegraph. Spectator, Mail - polluting our society and not paying tax.
@TwfJohn @DaleVince what about the Evening Standard and Independent owned by the Lord of Siberia?
@TwfJohn @DaleVince We could have lots of “Nigel Farages” owning the media. Great idea!
@TwfJohn @DaleVince We need to get rid of non-doms in Parliament, and from ownership of MPs.
@TwfJohn @DaleVince No no no not those foreigners