This campaign aims to get the Media Sovereignty Act passed by the UK Parliament.

It proposes the radical reclamation of sovereignty over the ownership of Britain’s media from the international and national billionaire elite that have hijacked it for their narrow, undemocratic, destructive agendas.

In other words, a radical and positive revolution in media ownership! 

A sovereign-owned media is essential for a genuinely free people and a fair, thriving democracy for everybody in the United Kingdom.

Summary 

The Media Sovereignty Act:

• Bans foreign ownership of UK media.¹

• Bans the concentration of UK media ownership, e.g. by the super-rich and large corporations.²

• Distributes media ownership across all sections of UK society.³

• Protects people from media abuse by requiring all relevant media to be members of their statutory regulator.

• Requires all think-tanks covered in the media to report their donations in real time.

The full draft bill is here.

Notes

1. British-owned means owned only by UK-domiciled persons or by a UK-headquartered company, all of whose owners or shareholders are only UK-domiciled persons.
2. The term ‘media’ covers national press, broadcasters and social media.
3. This would be done by imposing a Media Sovereignty Levy on large international social media corporations to help fund independent, local and co-operative-owned media organisations.